Jay Bhattacharya
Jayanta Bhattacharya (born 1968) is an American physician and health economist who is a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University. He is an investigator at Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. His research focuses on the economics of health care. In November 2024, President-elect Donald Trump named Bhattacharya as his choice to lead the National Institutes of Health.
Bhattacharya opposed the lockdowns and mask mandates imposed in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta, he was a co-author in 2020 of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through widespread infection, while promoting the fringe medicine notion that vulnerable people could be simultaneously protected from the virus. The declaration was criticized as being unethical and infeasible by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.
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