STAT+: 'MAHA' is moving into Trump's White House. Here's who RFK Jr. could bring along for the ride

WASHINGTON — MAGA, meet MAHA. 

The sweeping election victory for President-elect Donald Trump this week also marks the start of an ambitious anti-chronic disease campaign, “Make America Healthy Again,” that has become central to Trump’s health agenda. 

The leading MAHA man is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the lawyer, environmentalist and anti-vaccine advocate whom Trump has vowed to unleash upon federal health care agencies in his next term. Among Kennedy’s list of policy proposals are banning direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising, cracking down on ultra-processed foods, and rooting out scientists and health advisers with ties to the food and pharmaceutical industries. 

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