RFK Jr. Names 21 New Members to Federal Autism Committee

Kennedy resets federal autism panel with new lineup of 21 members

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday remade a federal panel that guides national autism policy, naming a new slate of 21 members that includes some with ties to groups promoting unproven claims that link vaccines to autism.

RFK Jr. Names 21 New Members to Federal Autism Committee

(MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed 21 new members to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), many of whom have a history of criticizing vaccines. IACC is a federal advisory committee that coordinates...

RFK Jr. Names New Members to Autism Committee

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed new members to a national committee on autism, his department announced on Jan. 28. Kennedy said in a statement that he selected the new members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) in response to President Donald Trump directing officials to modernize autism research. “We are doing that by appointing the most qualified experts—leaders with decades of experience studying, re…

HHS appoints 21 new members to federal autism advisory committee

Kennedy named 21 members to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Advocates spot many with links to debunked claim that vaccines can cause autism.

Kennedy's Autism Committee Pushes Trump Agenda

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the appointment of 21 new members to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), a group seeking to push the “fight against autism,” HHS declared. “President Trump directed us to bring autism research into the 21st century,” Kennedy said in a statement. “We are doing that by appointing the most qualified experts—leaders with decades of experience studying, researching, and treating autis…

The NIH is RFK’s Primate Testing Problem Child

Last month on national TV, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to completely end cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on primates. It was the second such pledge he has made, first in August 2025, when, in direct response to a White Coat Waste investigation of monkey tests bankrolled by his agency, he said he was “working ferociously” to end them. As White Coat Waste told CBS News in December, this co…