The president-elect's choices to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, FDA and CDC, hold positions on issues including abortion and vaccination that are often at odds.
Many of President-elect Donald Trump 's candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., setting the stage for internal friction over public health initiatives.The picks hold different views on matters such as limits on abortion, the safety of childhood vaccines, the COVID-19 response and the use of weight-loss medications.
Jay Bhattacharya, a doctor and economist who is Trump's selection to lead NIH, has also supported vaccines.Kennedy has said on NPR that federal authorities under his leadership wouldn't 'take vaccines away from anybody.' But the FDA oversees approval of vaccines, and, under his leadership, the agency could put vaccine skeptics on advisory panels or could make changes to a program that largely protects vaccine makers from consumer injury lawsuits.
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