STAT November 8, 2025
Daniel Payne

Mary Holland lays out her strategy to move courts and culture on vaccines, mandates, and more

WASHINGTON — Children’s Health Defense, the vaccine-skeptical organization once led by now-health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is playing the long game.

The group has more power in Washington than the group’s CEO, Mary Holland, imagined possible in her lifetime. In an interview with STAT, she said CHD plans to parlay that influence into permanent policy changes — upending the childhood...

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