Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earned the nomination to become the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday, confirming earlier reports suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump could put him in charge of the health department.
"For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health," Trump said in the announcement. "Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!," the president-elect added.
The US health department has 13 operating divisions, including 10 agencies in the country's public health service, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
