Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist whom Trump has chosen to run HHS, would have the capacity to roll back core public health protections, including protections for people with cancer, and dismantle research related to infectious diseases, public health experts warn.
The Biden administration has left NIH in a weakened state, intensifying politicization of science on Capitol Hill and eroding the bipartisan support the government’s premier biomedical research agency has traditionally enjoyed.
