HHS, Public Health

Public Health Experts Groan as RFK Jr. Pitches Vaccines as 'Personal Choice'
Vaccines are most effective at scale when enough people get them to provide "herd immunity" from a virus, doctors and officials say.
Public Health Experts Alarmed at Trump’s Pick of RFK Jr. to Lead HHS
President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who spreads medical disinformation and conspiracy theories, to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alarmed public health experts who say that Kennedy’s potential confirmation could have dire consequences for the state of health and science in America.
Why picking RFK Jr. to lead HHS is raising alarms among many public health specialists
The anti-vaccine activist could oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
What to know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus. Robert F.
Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump’s list of provocative picks whose confirmation processes will test the loyalty of Senate Republicans.
Trump nominates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, raising public health concerns
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, raising concerns among public health officials. Kennedy is referred to as anti-vaccine and dangerous by public health officials.
KAISER HEALTH CARE: Scientists fear what’s next for public health if RFK Jr. is allowed to ‘go wild’
Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the president-elect will reconcile starkly different philosophies
Global health experts sound alarm over RFK Jr., citing Samoa outbreak
Experts and officials said a measles outbreak in Samoa, which came after a visit by Kennedy, was examplary of the dangers of his rhetoric.
RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ has health experts worried
Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world,
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