How does Make America Healthy Again hold up against scientific scrutiny?
Researchers share their views on the US health policy spanning topics from vaccines to nutrition.
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US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced the country’s latest set of dietary guidelines in January. Anna Moneymaker/Getty
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, spearheaded by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, aims to “confront chronic disease, improve nutrition, and lower healthcare costs”. To achieve these laudable aims, those in the MAHA movement have set out to overhaul US health policies on aspects such as nutrition and vaccines and what they see as an over-reliance on medication. Such huge shifts in the United States are likely to have ripple effects around the world.