Kennedy, who suspended his independent bid for the presidency to endorse Trump immediately following the Democratic National Convention last summer, has vowed to “Make America Healthy Again” by battling chronic health conditions and restoring American health agencies to their “ rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science .”

The prospect of having vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation’s health policy has doctors speaking out to oppose his confirmation as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary. The Committee to Protect Health Care says it has more than 15,