The head of the largest organisation of public health professionals in the US says Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary is “absolutely the wrong guy”.
Georges C Benjamin says Robert F Kennedy Jr has no health background and has "already caused great damage to health in the country", referring to Kennedy’s scepticism of vaccines.
Kennedy has a history of spreading health information that scientists say is false. Trump told his supporters that Kennedy wanted to "help make America healthy again".
BBC Verify’s Merylyn Thomas looks at the controversial claims he’s made in the past.
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