Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently pledged to take steps to remove fluoride from public water due to potential health risks, but others maintain the mineral should still be added to drinking water.

Despite dropping out of the presidential race nearly three months before Election Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received more votes in Alabama than any other third-party candidate combined, according to the Alabama Secretary of State's Office.

The health activist created a public website for people to write in their favored candidates for over 4,000 positions in the incoming Trump administration.

The agency’s ability to hire and retain skilled employees may be in jeopardy given Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hostility to civil servants, Califf said. Trump has said he plans to give Kennedy, leader of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, power over health care policy in his administration.

After suspending his campaign for president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed President-elect Donald Trump. For all his efforts on the campaign trail, RFK Jr. could be given a position as a “health czar” in the Trump White House. Dr. Kavita Patel ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years questioning the federal agencies in charge of vaccine production and safety. Now he is poised to potentially oversee those agencies in a second Trump administration,

The former environmental lawyer is asking the public for its input on thousands of Trump administration appointees in agencies ranging from EPA to HHS.

RFK Jr. has said Trump promised him “control of the public health agencies,” including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He’s talked about cleaning up “corruption” at those agencies and reorienting them towards a chronic disease focus (in a page on his MAHA website that has since been scrubbed).

Both RFK Jr. and his younger brother David developed drug addictions at a young age after their father was assassinated.

President-elect Trump’s promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health is demoralizing public health experts, who worry he could meddle with key government agencies, amplify vaccine hesitancy and direct agency funding to favor his preferred views.

We need to act fast, and we want to have those people in place on Jan. 20, so that on Jan. 21, 600 people are going to walk into offices at NIH and 600 people are going to leave,”