What Jay Bhattacharya's Confirmation Hearing Taught Us About Trump's Pick for NIH Director
Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump ’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health faced questions Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing about how he would lead the agency and whether he would support policies handed down from Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Trump’s NIH pick grilled on research funding cuts and vaccine views in Senate hearing
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health answered sharp questions in a confirmation hearing Wednesday about his views on vaccines, research funding and the role scientists should play in a pandemic.
Who is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya? Trump’s pick to lead the NIH faces Senate confirmation hearing
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed Covid lockdowns, is set to appear at a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday for his nomination by President Donald Trump to lead the National Institutes of Health.
Trump NIH nominee promotes scientific ‘free speech’ at Senate confirmation hearing
Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy and economics at Stanford University who rose to prominence as a skeptic of lockdowns and mask mandates amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
NIH director nominee Jay Bhattacharya faces Senate confirmation hearing
Jay Bhattacharya, the controversial Stanford University doctor and economist who emerged as an early critic of covid-19 stay-at-home orders, is expected to appear before a Senate panel for a confirmation hearing Wednesday morning as President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health.
On path to likely confirmation as NIH director, Bhattacharya toes the party line
The most telling signal from Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearing as nominee to direct the NIH lay in what he would not say.
Watch live: Senate holds confirmation hearing on Trump’s nominee for NIH director
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Trump’s pick for the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will testify Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and
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