Indian connection and strong in Trump government, who is Jai Bhattacharya? Those who were made the head of health ageji

Indian-American scientist Jai Bhattacharya has been appointed as Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), a leading health research and funding body in the United States. He was nominated as the 18th NIH Director by the then President-election Donald Trump in November last year. According to the official website of the US Senate, Professor Bhattacharya of Stanford University, specialized in the health policy, won the post with 53–47 votes during the 119th Congress’s initial role call session on Tuesday.

American senator Mich McConal said on X from Kentki that today was voted to confirm Dr. Jai Bhattacharya to lead the National Institute of Health. With a broad background in medical research, I hope to provide good leadership in Jai Bhattacharya. According to the news agency ANI, the website said that Bhattacharya will bring back NIH to his position as a major institute for medical research in collaboration with newly appointed US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. In a statement on Tuesday, Stanford Medicine proudly congratulated Bhattacharya on his appointment and called his commitment to public service commendable. As an institution, we are staunch supporters of NIH’s mission, which leads the limits of medical knowledge and opens new possibilities for health improvement.

According to the earlier enrollment statement by US President Donald Trump, Bhattacharya is a health policy professor at Stanford University, a research colleague at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a senior companion in Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford Freeman Spogley Institute and Huvern Spogley Institute. He also directs Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging and his research emphasizes the role of government programs, biomedical innovation and economics.