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RFK Jr.’s vaccine adviser under scrutiny ahead of key vaccine meeting

Public health experts criticize Retsef Levi’s studies ahead of a key vaccine advisory meeting

Published March 11, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

In just over a year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dramatically reshaped vaccines at the federal level, which has drawn considerable controversy given his lack of a medical background and his long history of attacking vaccines and pushing pseudoscience. But he hasn’t done it alone. Ahead of a key meeting on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, attention is being drawn to Retsef Levi, a top adviser who has published misleading vaccine research. Public health advocates and researchers are calling him out for pushing anti-vaccine agendas in his publications and in his role at HHS.

Kennedy appointed Levi to the top position of a task force leading COVID vaccine recommendation in July 2025. Levi is not a medical doctor, instead his background is in mathematics and operations research and he also served as an intelligence officer of the elite Israeli Intelligence Corps. Levi’s appointment was part of a broader overhaul of the advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) in which Kennedy removed all 17 members of ACIP, replacing them with allies like Levi who called COVID vaccines “the most failing medical product in the history of medical products.”

ACIP is set to meet on March 18 and 19 to discuss COVID vaccine injuries and long COVID, according to the meeting agenda. They are likely to recommend further changes to........

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