Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

26th Secretary of Health and Human Services — Health and Human Services

Signature issue: Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) — chronic disease and food policy

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This official is also covered in depth on our sister publication: RFK Team Report. This page carries the full profile and the administration scoreboard record.

Full coverage lives on RFK Team Report: rfkteamreport.com — Kennedy’s complete profile, current initiatives, positions, video library, and his HHS scoreboard are maintained there. This page carries his role, status, and channels for the administration-wide roster, and links out rather than duplicating that coverage.

Role status — October 2026: Kennedy is the confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services. HHS titles him its “26th Secretary” on his leadership biography (hhs.gov/about/leadership/robert-kennedy.html); he was confirmed by the Senate 52–48 and sworn in on February 13, 2025. He remains active in role in October 2026 — HHS event pages show him visiting a Texas Head Start center on September 8, 2026, and appearing with Education Secretary Linda McMahon at Westlake High School on October 1, 2026. No 2026 change to Kennedy’s own seat was found in the research pass; status dot is green. (Churn among the officials beneath him at HHS agencies is tracked on RFK Team Report, not here.)

His signature program is Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), focused on chronic disease and food policy; HHS’s own launch coverage ties his swearing-in to President Trump’s MAHA executive order. Within the administration-wide scoreboard on this site, Kennedy appears as the owner of the Health & MAHA category, with his detailed wins, pending fights, and setbacks scored on RFK Team Report.

Verified channels:

Official — HHS leadership biography: https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/robert-kennedy.html
X (official-role) — @SecKennedy (named in HHS press-release footers)
X (agency) — @HHSGov

Video sources: LOUD — on RFK Team Report’s beat. HHS’s YouTube output carrying Kennedy includes his events plus two series launched in 2026, The Real Food Show and The Secretary Kennedy Podcast, along with his “Take Back Your Health” tour, hearings, and press conferences. Video pages themselves are built and maintained on RFK Team Report.

Why he matters to this chronicle: Kennedy is the cabinet’s link between the Trump administration and the MAHA movement, and his department touches the health promises the administration-wide scoreboard tracks. TrumpTeamReport records his place on the team and links to the dedicated chronicle of his tenure rather than splitting that record across two sites.

Sources (Oct 2026): Research Cluster B (2026-10-18), citing hhs.gov (leadership biography; MAHA executive-order release; September–October 2026 event pages).