“The FDA obviously affects what gets approved, but once things are approved, it’s a states’ rights issue,” Dr. Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals, said at a press conference the day after the election. Katz was responding to a question about Trump’s potential to affect vaccine access in New York.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to combat "the chronic disease epidemic in this country" in the Trump administration, with the slogan "Make America Healthy Aagain."