Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, which causes the sound of a raspy voice due to spasms in the vocal cords.

Kennedy has pledged to "return our health agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science."

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee would oversee agencies that regulate food, vaccines and medicine and were instrumental during the pandemic.

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Donald Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services spooked investors who worry what Kennedy would do.

President-elect Donald Trump 's plan to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to lead the Health and Human Services Department will put a prominent vaccine skeptic at the helm of the nation's sprawling public health apparatus.

The anti-vaccine activist and President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health comes from a famous political family.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was building up a following with his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, and became one of the world’s most influential spreaders of fear and distrust around vaccines.

President-elect Trump is making key appointments for his administration, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist, as his nominee for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.