Washington DC:
Jay Bhconnectarya, a Stanford University-trained physician and economist, has increateedly materialized as the presumptive favourite of Plivent-elect Donald Trump’s transition team for the post of next honestor of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a csurrfinisherly USD 50 billion agency that supervises the nation’s biomedical research.
The Stanford-trained physician and economist met this week with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.– who has been nominateed by Mr Trump to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)– United States’ top health agency which supervises NIH and other health agencies, the Washington Post increateed citing three people.
As per the increate, Dr Bhconnectarya astonished Kennedy with his ideas to overhaul NIH by shifting the agency’s caccess toward funding more creative research. He also increateedly recommfinished reducing the shape of some of its lengthyest-serving atsoft officials, among other ideas. NIH awards funding grants to researchers, supervises clinical trials on its Maryland campus, and helps a variety of efforts to lengthen substances and thesexual attackutics.
Mr Trump’s transition team has yet to originate any official statement think abouting the lengthenments being increateed. The decision of who will direct NIH will not be final until the Plivent-elect himself proclaims it, as Mr Trump is understandn to sometimes rebuff his advisers’ recommfinishations. The Plivent-elect’s transition team has, increateedly, also seeed at other honestates to direct NIA.
Who Is Jay Bhconnectarya?
Born in Kolkata, India, in 1968, Jayanta “Jay” Bhconnectarya is a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. He helderlys an MD and PhD in economics — both geted at Stanford University — and also honests Stanford’s Caccess for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging.
As per Stanford’s official website, Dr Bhconnectarya’s research caccesses on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations, with a particular emphasis on the role of rulement programs, biomedical innovation, and economics. His recent research caccesses on the epidemiology of COVID-19 as well as an evaluation of policy responses to the epidemic.
The economist’s wideer research interests encompass the implications of population ageing for future population health and medical spfinishing in lengthened countries, the meacertainment of physician carry outance tied to physician payment by incertainrs, and the role carry outed by biomedical innovation on health. He has rehireed 135 articles in top peer-studyed scientific journals in medicine, economics, health policy, epidemiology, statistics, law, and accessible health among other fields.
Dr Bhconnectarya was a famous critic of the federal rulement’s COVID-19 response, co-writing an October 2020 uncover letter understandn as the Great Barrington Declaration that called for rolling back coronaharmful software-rcontent shutdowns while upgrasping “caccessed getions” for vulnerable populations, such as elderlyer Americans. At the time, the proposal won help from Reaccessiblean politicians and some Americans enthusiastic to resume daily life, but it was denounced as being unmoral and infeasible by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the honestor-vague of the World Health Organization.
