Keeping track of Kennedy’s MAHA goals and promises

This tracker was updated on Feb. 13, 2026 with newly announced federal addiction initiatives, plans for the implementation of dietary guidelines, and regulation-tightening on food additives. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. created a movement by pointing out what he saw as America’s broken approach to health. “Make America Healthy Again” earned him […]

RFK Jr.’s MAHA report proposes over 100 ideas for children’s health : Shots

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a strategy report of the Make America Healthy Again Commission intended to tackle childhood chronic disease. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Trump administration released a report Tuesday outlining a broad strategy to improve children’s health. It calls for […]

RFK Jr. unveils initiatives to promote children’s health

Sept. 9 (UPI) — Health and Human Services Director Robert Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday proposed 120 initiatives to reverse federal policies that he says cause chronic childhood diseases. The initiatives are spread among five key strategic areas that involve science, executive action, governmental reforms, public awareness and collaboration with the private sector. “The Trump administration […]

Kennedy wants to limit CDC’s role to infectious diseases

A day after nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s actions at the agency are “unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” he pushed back in a Wall Street Journal editorial. The CDC “was once the world’s most trusted guardian of public health,” […]

RFK Jr. is a shaky leader for much-needed public-health reform

A word of caution to the Trump administration as it carries out much-needed reforms across the nation’s public-health agencies: Purging the arrogance and ideology that drove insane COVID policies is a must, but Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a terribly flawed tool for doing it. It now looks like RFK’s no. […]