A deeper look into Health and Human Services Secretary nominee RFK Jr. and the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign
Robert Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the federal government agency responsible for public health, disease research, food safety, and regulating medicine. RFK Jr. is an opponent of vaccines and other public health interventions. He is also part of a broader movement pushing an agenda that is intened to “Make America Healthy Again.”
A panel of public health experts discuss some of the MAHA movement's ideas as well as what the Department of Health and Human Services could look like under RFK Jr.
GUESTS
Kristina Peterson
Covers food and agriculture policy, Wall Street Journal
Prof. David Rosner
Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and History
Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
Dr. Emily Landon, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Executive Director, Infection Prevention and Control
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine