President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick to lead the National Institutes of Health and a flurry of other appointments.
Trump selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to serve as director of the NIH, working with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct national medical research.
Bhattacharya serves as director of Stanford University’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging.
“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease,” Trump wrote. “Together, they will work hard to Make America Healthy Again!”
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He also announced Jim O’Neill as the pick for Kennedy’s deputy secretary. Kevin Hassett was chosen as the director of the White House National Economic Counsel.
Robert Lighthizer’s protege Jamieson Greer was nominated as the United States trade representative.
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