Chief Healthcare Executive November 20, 2024
Critics worry he’ll undermine public confidence in vaccines. They also say he lacks the qualifications to lead an agency directing health policies that affect all Americans.
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump announcing that he wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, many critics focused on his well-documented vaccine skepticism.
Kennedy has routinely spread vaccine misinformation, including citing debunked studies linking vaccines to autism, critics say. Healthcare leaders worry that Kennedy would discourage the use and development of vaccines, and undermine public confidence in their safety, if he leads the nation’s health department. Opponents of Kennedy’s nomination to lead HHS called Trump’s choice “dangerous” and “disastrous.”
But in the days since...
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