Jayanta Bhattacharya
Jayanta Bhattacharya, BA[a 1], M.A.[a 2], Ph.D.[a 3] (born 8 July 1968 in Kolkat, West Bengal, India). He is also known as Jay Bhattacharya. 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 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 UCLA Department of Economics. Contemporaneously he was an economist with the RAND Corporation.
Dr. Bhattachaya has been a Professor in the Stanford University Department of Medicine from 2001 until the present. In addition, he has also been a Professor in the Department of Health Research and Policy from 2001 until 2020.
Dr. Brattachaya became a Research Associate at National Bureau of Economic Research from 2002 to the present.
Dr. Brattachaya became a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2006 to 2008.
Dr. Brattachaya became a Research Associate from 2007 to the present with Sphere Institute & Acumen LLC
Dr. Brattachaya became a Senior Fellow at the 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 National Institutes of Health. He will report to Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services and oversee 27 institutes and centers.[1]
Personal life
Dr. Bhattachaya has three children.
Publications
Book
Bhattachaya, Jay, Hyde, Timothy, Tu, Peter (2013): Health Economics. Red Globe Press. ISBN ISBN13 978-1137029966. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes 385 articles of which Dr. Bhattacharya is a named author.
PubMed
PubMed indexes 677 articles of which Dr. Bhattacharya is a named author.
Video
Jay Bhattacharya: Trump’s NIH chief is a doc, economist who opposed lockdowns
External links
Official website. Retrieved 27 November 2024- Wikipedia article: Jay Bhattacharya
- Bhattacharya, Joy (June 2021).
Curriculum Vitae of Jayanta Bhattacharya
, Jay Bhattacharya. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
Abbreviations
- ↑
Bachelor of Arts
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (BA or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus.) - ↑
Master of Arts
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021. - ↑
Doctor of Philosophy
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 16 June 2021. (Also abbreviated as D.Phil.)
References
- ↑
Anonymous (26 November 2024)."Trump chooses US COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH", Reuters. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
