US EditionIn a tumultuous year, US health policy has been dramatically reshaped under RFK Jr.
Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda has led to over 10,000 layoffs and billions cut from research, shifting U.S. health policy on vaccines and chronic disease.
- This year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services secretary, announced a sweeping restructuring, laying off 10,000 employees on top of 10,000 buyouts and freezing billions in research funding.
- As part of the MAHA agenda, Kennedy is implementing his Make America Healthy Again movement, which began last year and became widely used in 2025, shaping his policy overhaul.
- Earlier this year, Kennedy moved to remove a 17-member CDC vaccine advisory committee, installing skeptics who changed COVID-19 and childhood vaccine recommendations, and in November, he directed the CDC to abandon its stance that vaccines do not cause autism.
- Those departures significantly thinned the $1.7 trillion Department of Health and Human Services , prompting praise from MAHA supporters and bipartisan lawmakers but scrutiny after a MAHA report cited nonexistent studies.
- Across the federal government, MAHA is spreading as Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, works on a MAHA agenda and Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary, pledges $1 billion for airport family resources with HHS continuing the effort.
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