{"id":6183,"date":"2026-01-25T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:40:35","slug":"a-year-of-trump-us-health-policy-reshaped-in-rfk-jrs-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/25\/a-year-of-trump-us-health-policy-reshaped-in-rfk-jrs-image\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of Trump: US health policy reshaped in RFK Jr&#8217;s image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One year into Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House, US health policy has been dramatically reshaped under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose long\u2011held skepticism toward vaccines and mainstream medical advice is now influencing federal institutions. Experts warn that his reforms have undermined trust in science, weakened disease\u2011prevention programs, and cut research funding, even as the country faces its worst measles outbreak in years. Kennedy has promoted \u201cindividual choice\u201d over population\u2011wide protections, drawing praise from his \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d supporters but alarm from much of the medical community.<br>While some initiatives, such as efforts to lower drug prices and remove synthetic food dyes, align with mainstream goals, critics fear long\u2011term damage to US and global public health leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 15, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260115-a-year-of-trump-us-health-policy-reshaped-in-rfk-jr-s-image\">france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year into Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House, US health policy has been dramatically reshaped under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose long\u2011held skepticism toward vaccines and mainstream medical advice is now influencing federal institutions. Experts warn that his reforms have undermined trust in science, weakened disease\u2011prevention programs, and cut research funding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}