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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.

Bhattacharya replaces Jim O’Neill, who served simultaneously as acting CDC director and deputy secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. The New York Times was first to report the news.

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

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