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

One senior executive from the healthcare sector told the Financial Times his influence on policy would be “awful on a lot of levels."

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).

The CDC calls the practice of adding fluoride to tap water systems one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the last century.

Members of the Kennedy family, the prominent political lineage rooted here in Massachusetts, are reacting to Donald Trump's win

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who will meet with senior Trump aides Wednesday to discuss his role going forward, said he would eliminate the nutrition departments at the FDA.

In an interview with NPR on Wednesday, Kennedy said Trump had already assigned him three tasks: to reduce the “corruption and conflicts” in regulatory agencies like the FDA, return those agencies to the “evidence-based science and medicine that they were once famous for,” and to end chronic disease with measurable impacts within two years.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have a significant influence on public health matters following Donald Trump's presidential victory.

A doctor fears that an RFK Jr.-influenced Trump White House will discourage vaccination and block the release of data showing the disastrous consequences.

The CDC calls the practice of adding fluoride to tap water systems one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the last century.