Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday eight new members of the CDC's independent vaccine advisory committee, some of whom have been critics of shots.

(THE CONVERSATION) On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slate of eight new members to serve on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on national vaccine policy.

“Make America Healthy Again,” also referred to as MAHA, has been Kennedy’s mantra as he helms HHS. Its core tenets are combating chronic disease, reforming food and pharmaceutical regulations and ending corruption in health care.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in April that he plans to tell medical schools to teach nutrition or risk losing federal funding, ABC News reported last week.

Kennedy Jr. (aka RFK Jr.) was sworn in as the 26th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he immediately sparked a firestorm of controversy. Critics argued that his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement was rooted in vaccine denialism,

Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas about a wide range of health subjects may appear disparate to those who haven’t trawled through his more than a dozen books.

Despite his compelling personal story of recovery from addiction, RFK Jr. has said much less about the U.S. drug crisis than other priorities like food additives.

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