Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, which causes the sound of a raspy voice due to spasms in the vocal cords.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how the nation’s public health agencies do business.

Kennedy has pledged to "return our health agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science."

The anti-vaccine activist and President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health comes from a famous political family.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus. Robert F.

Public health experts, physicians, and scientists responded with fury and disgust to the news that Donald Trump will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the secretary of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee would oversee agencies that regulate food, vaccines and medicine and were instrumental during the pandemic.

Kennedy has been criticized for making false medical claims. He has also vowed to purge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary is aiming to disrupt the National Institutes of Health, the country's top funder of academic research. Medical doctors and public health officials have condemned the choice.

Donald Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services spooked investors who worry what Kennedy would do.