Daniel Payne , 2025-05-15 21:49:00
The Make America Healthy Again movement is coalescing around a new effort to turn its goals into federal policy. The Trump administration is listening.
The MAHA Institute, a policy center launched Thursday, is pushing to change the American health and food systems: from rethinking vaccine availability and review to removing processed foods from schools, to using keto diets to treat mental illnesses and reforming the regulatory systems intended to protect the public.
The leaders of the institute, meant to rival established think tanks and advocacy groups, are close allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — even as Kennedy has committed to distance himself from them upon taking office. The group’s chairman is Tony Lyons, whose Skyhorse Publishing has put out a raft of Kennedy’s books, including ones criticizing vaccines.
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