The highly anticipated second report by the Make America Healthy Again Commission lays out the Trump administration's planned health strategy around priorities including vaccines, childhood nutrition, water fluoridation and exposure to chemicals.

The report, which tracks with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stated priorities, sets in motion various initiatives but lacks substantial findings or regulatory aims to support its goal of ending childhood chronic disease.

As the first part of the Trump administration’s MAHA strategy, the report announces the creation of the Initiative on Chronic Disease under the National Institutes of Health, which will “leverage and align existing NIH research projects, improve NIH coordination on chronic disease research, and generate actionable results for diseases arising in childhood and adulthood.”

Part of promoting the MAHA agenda will include a “Make American Schools Healthy Again awareness campaign” to provide information on best practices for “increasing physical activity and improving nutrition options.” The campaign will be carried out by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education and the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.

The report also describes a planned “vaccine framework” to be developed by the White House Domestic Policy Council and HHS. The........

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