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{{Construction Site}}'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', B.A.{{BA}}, M.A.{{MA}}, M.D., Ph.D. {{PhD}} ({{LifeData|birth=1968-07-08|birthplace=Kolkat, West Bengal|birthcountry=[[India]]|death=|deathplace=|deathcountry=}}) . He is also known as <b>Jay Bhattacharya</b>. Dr. Bhattacharya is a naturalized American citizen.
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==Early life==
Dr. Bhattacharya was born in [[India]] where child [[circumcision]] is practised only by Muslims, so it is very likely that he has retained his [[foreskin]] and [[intact]] status.
==Education==
He graduated from [https://stanford.edu/ Stanford University] in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts with membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He remained at Stanford to do doctoral study in economics and attend the Stanford University School of Medicine, receiving an M.D. in 1997 and a Ph.D in economics in 2000. ==Academic career==Dr. Bhattachaya started his academic career in 1998-2001 as visiting Assistant Professor at the [https://economics.ucla.edu UCLA Department of Economics]. Contemporaneously he was an economist with the [https://www.rand.org/ RAND Corporation]. Dr. Bhattachaya has been a Professor in the [https://medicine.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Department of Medicine] from 2001 until the present. In addition, he has also been a Professor in the [https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/ Department of Health Research and Policy] from 2001 until 2020. Dr. Brattachaya became a Research Associate at [https://www.nber.org/ National Bureau of Economic Research] from 2002 to the present. Dr. Brattachaya became a Research Fellow at the [https://www.hoover.org/ Hoover Institution] from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Brattachaya became a Research Associate from 2007 to the present with [https://www.sphereinstitute.org/ Sphere Institute] & [https://www.acumenllc.com/ Acumen LLC] Dr. Brattachaya became a Senior Fellow at the [https://siepr.stanford.edu/ Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research] from 2013 until the present. Dr. Brattachaya became a Senior Fellow at the [Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute] from 2014 until the present.
==Director of the National Institutes of Health==
President-elect Donald J. Trump appointed Dr. Bhattacharya on 26 November 2024 to succeed Francis Collins as Director of the [https://www.nih.gov/ National Institutes of Health]. He will report to [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]], Secretary of Health and Human Services and oversee 27 institutes and centers.<ref>{{REFnews
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==Personal life==
Dr. Bhattachaya has three children.
{{PUB}}
<b>Book</b>* {{REFbook |last=Bhattachaya |first=Jay |init= |last2=Hyde |first2=Timothy |init2= |author2-link= |last3=Tu |first3=Peter |init3= |author3-link= |year=2013 |title=Health Economics |url=https://www.amazon.com/Health-Economics-Jay-Bhattacharya/dp/113702996X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=bhattacharya+hyde+tu&qid=1625121430&sr=8-1 |scope= |location= |publisher=Red Globe Press |ISBN=ISBN13 978-1137029966 |accessdate=2024-11-27 }} ====Google Scholar====
Google Scholar indexes [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2wH43aAAAAAJ 385 articles of which Dr. Bhattacharya is a named author.]
====PubMed====
PubMed indexes [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bhattacharya+J&sort=pubdate 677 articles of which Dr. Bhattacharya is a named author.]
==Video==
===Jay Bhattacharya: Trump’s NIH chief is a doc, economist who opposed lockdowns===
<youtube>v=wsfLhpljlUo</youtube>
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* {{URLwebsite|https://web.stanford.edu/~jay/|2024-11-27}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Jay_Bhattacharya|Jay Bhattacharya}}
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