President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health has sparked strong reactions as he advocated for an overhaul of the agency.

Bhattacharya, the director of Stanford University's Center for Demography and the Economics of Health and Aging and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, first appeared on the national stage as a prominent critic of lockdowns implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19.

The president-elect expressed confidence in Bhattacharya's ability to lead the $50 billion agency and “restore the NIH to the Gold Standard of Medical Research” and “Make America Healthy Again.”

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The following pages highlight six things to know about Dr. Bhattacharya.