Jayanta Bhattacharya

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Jayanta Bhattacharya, B.A., M.A., M.D., Ph.D. (born 8 July 1968 in Kolkat, West Bengal, India) He is also known as Jay Bhattacharya. Dr. Bhattacharya is a naturalized American citizen.

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

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

References

  1. REFnews Anonymous (26 November 2024)."Trump chooses US COVID policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH", Reuters. Retrieved 27 November 2024.