The co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rebuked CDC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, will oversee the nation’s leading public health agency.

Bhattacharya will continue in his current duties as NIH director until a permanent CDC director is nominated and confirmed, ...

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had ...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, has been picked to also serve as acting director of the CDC, a White House official confirmed to Healio. Bhattacharya will oversee both agencies until a ...

NIH Indian American Director Jay Bhattacharya has been named acting head of the CDC, replacing Jim O’Neill in a leadership ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been named as the new acting director for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The White House will pull its nomination of Dave Weldon to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A U.S. District Court judge in Illinois granted a temporary restraining order to reinstate $602 million in public health grants allocated for four states that the Trump administration had moved to ...