Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Since 2012, there's been no increase in American life expectancy. From 2012 to 2019, literally it was it was well, not literally, all almost entirely flat life expectancy, and uh whereas the European countries had advances in life expectancy during that period. During the pandemic, life expectancy dropped very sharply in the United States and only just last year did it come back up to 2019 levels. In Sweden, the life expectancy dropped in 2020 for and then came right back up in by 2021, 2022 to the previous trend of increasing life expectancy.

Whatever those investments we're making as a nation in the research are not actually translating into meeting the mission of the NIH, which is to advance health and longevity of the American people. Because they kept saying we don't care. And so it's almost like big segments of the public feel like they caught us in something and as scientists and we won't admit it. And they're not just pissed off. They're kind of like done.

They I hear it all the time. And again, this isn't the health and wellness supplement taking, you know, uh you know, anti-woke crowd. This is a big segment of the population that is like, I don't want to hear about it. I don't care if labs get funded.

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