They Were Public Health Heretics. Now They Are America’s Public Health Czars.

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Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, and Vinay Prasad challenged the public health orthodoxy in our pages. Now, they have the power to fix things. Will they pull it off?
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Readers of The Free Press will be familiar with the names of the doctors just appointed to high positions overseeing the nation’s public health. Jay Bhattacharya is now the director of the National Institutes of Health; Marty Makary is the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; and Vinay Prasad has just been named director of the Center for B…
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