The anti-vaccine activist could oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is the nominee to lead the HHS. Here's where he stands on vaccines, food, drinking water, and public health administration.

Experts and officials said a measles outbreak in Samoa, which came after a visit by Kennedy, was examplary of the dangers of his rhetoric.

Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world,

One compares Kennedy being considered to “having somebody who doesn’t believe in gravity being the head of NASA.”