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.

In a move guaranteed to alarm many, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal opponent of vaccines and other tenets of mainstream health care, to head the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.

Donald Trump announced this afternoon that he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism and unorthodox views about medicine make many public health officials deeply uneasy.

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

Donald Trump has picked vaccine sceptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as his health secretary, as the president-elect continues to build his new administration. Kennedy,

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Washington — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday in a social media post that he'll nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. "I am thrilled to announce Robert F.