Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Bhattacharya is a physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

President-elect Donald Trump tapped Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a vocal critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, as the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Stanford University professor of health policy and skeptic of COVID-19 precautions Is Trump's pick to run the National Institutes of Health