Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely assume a role in public health in the Trump administration. Here’s what that might look like, from vaccines to women’s health.
in the presidential election, thus ushering in four more years of chaos and fear. Another potential consequence of this election: It may make us all sick, too. Trump has reportedlyto install noted conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to helm his public-health initiatives — despite the fact that he has no background in science or medicine.
Given his extremely well-paid position as the head of the nonprofit the Children’s Defense Fund, it “seems unlikely” that Kennedy would even want to take a bureaucratic government role, according to Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health. “While anything could happen, I believe rather than being ‘in control’ of those agencies, he will serve as some kind of White House advisor or czar,” she says.
Although Trump has publicly said Kennedy is free to “do whatever he wants” with women’s health, it’s difficult to determine what, precisely, that means without knowing the specific parameters of Kennedy’s prospective role. But there are certainly pathways by which Kennedy could potentially limit abortion access as a Trump appointee — for instance, in the unlikely event he has oversight of the FDA, he could, theoretically,or restrict access to the drug .
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