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

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

White House orders CDC to rescind $602 million in funding from Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota over alleged waste and mismanagement.

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.

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

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 ...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday denied that politics played a part in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to roll back mask mandates on Thursday. “The CDC — the ...

Current NIH director and former Stanford medical school professor Jay Bhattacharya M.D. ’97 will act as director of the CDC.

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

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