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- Jay Bhattacharya named as acting CDC lead
The Trump Administration has tapped National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, to temporarily lead the CDC. He will be the acting director until a permanent director is nominated and confirmed.
Bhattacharya takes on the role after the previous acting director, HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill, exited the CDC and is expected to be nominated to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- Dr. Bhattacharya will still run NIH and is the third leader the CDC has had since last summer.
- Dr. Bhattacharya is a physician-scientist and health economist who was previously a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University.