Jay Bhattacharya
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Jay Bhattacharya is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 07, 2025 and August 29, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Jay Bhattacharya: NIH Director”; “NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a room full of people”. It most often appears alongside NIH, Trump administration, 1DaySooner.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 07, 2025
- Last seen: August 29, 2025
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- NIH (2 shared issues)
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- Trump administration (2 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Tabarrok (1 shared issues)
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- American Association of Medical Colleges (1 shared issues)
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- Anthony Fauci (1 shared issues)
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- ARPA-H (1 shared issues)
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- Bhattacharya (1 shared issues)
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- Big Tech (1 shared issues)
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- Blind Spots (1 shared issues)
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- Britt (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Regulatory Capacity For Emergencies/Pandemics: In 2020, Makary criticized the FDA’s slow response to COVID. This time, we could try to be ahead of the game by building the FDA’s capacity and expertise in advance. During peacetime, this team could work on a universal flu vaccine and a pandemic equivalent of the START pilot pioneered by FDA biologics director Peter Marks. Jay Bhattacharya: NIH Director Bhattacharya is a rare doctor and medical professor who also has a PhD in economics. His contrarian COVID positions provoked censorship and harassment from Big Tech and the academic establishment; the experience seems to have low-key traumatized him, and his preliminary policy proposals, listed here, focus on using the NIH's grant-giving power to shake up the orthodoxy that wanted him silenced. Here are some other policies we hope he’ll look into:
In May, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a room full of people that he would spend all the money by the end of the fiscal year. That is good news, because any money not spent by that point will disappear. The bad news is the fiscal year ends on September 30th and according to the American Association of Medical Colleges, “the true shortfall far exceeds $5 billion.”