Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was appointed to the role last week, has offered to publicly endorse vaccination, in particular the measles vaccine, winning over some agency employees. By Apoorva Mandavilli ...

Nearly a year since mass layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disrupted the response to an unfolding lead paint crisis at Milwaukee Public Schools, the reinstated head of the ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is now also the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an unusual arrangement that has drawn swift ...

Bhattacharya to Do Double Duty at Helms of CDC and NIH By Deanna Neff HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Feb. 20, 2026 (HealthDay News) — An outspoken critic of the nation’s top public health agency has been ...

Former Stanford Medical School professor Jay Bhattacharya B.A. ’89 M.A. ’90 M.D. ’97 Ph.D. ’00 has been tapped to serve as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who directs the National Institute of Health, is taking over as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he confirmed to NBC News. Bhattacharya replaces ...

U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will take over as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Trump administration official said on Wednesday. The ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will step in as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Trump administration ...

NIH's Bhattacharya Will Also Run the CDC While Trump Administration Looks for a Permanent Director WASHINGTON (AP) — National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will also temporarily ...