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.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Jay Bhattacharya to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a key medical research agency. “Dr Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F.

Bhattacharya was one of three authors an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm.