
Stanford academic Jay Bhattacharya is Trump’s pick to lead US health agency
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose Stanford academic and US Covid-19 policy critic Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the country’s top public funder of medical research with a budget of some $47.3 billion. The NIH has been in the crosshairs of Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s pick to lead the Department…