{"id":11564,"date":"2026-03-04T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11564"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:39:14","slug":"the-global-fallout-of-rfk-jrs-vaccine-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/04\/the-global-fallout-of-rfk-jrs-vaccine-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"The global fallout of RFK Jr&#8217;s vaccine policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/04\/nx-s1-5701334\/vaccine-health-hepatitis\">NPR<\/a>  In his role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is changing how the United States approaches vaccines. But those changes aren&#8217;t limited to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode, NPR global health correspondent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/470414236\/gabrielle-emanuel\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Gabrielle Emanuel, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Gabrielle Emanuel<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;shares two examples of how the global public health landscape may be shifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, the United States&#8217; ultimatum to an international vaccine group called Gavi. The U.S. has historically been one of Gavi&#8217;s biggest funders, but now, it is threatening to withhold future funds if Gavi doesn&#8217;t remove an ingredient called thimerosal from vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/04\/nx-s1-5701334\/vaccine-health-hepatitis\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"lT m qhtyhpOnRwXNHw SN\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR In his role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is changing how the United States approaches vaccines. But those changes aren&#8217;t limited to the United States. This episode, NPR global health correspondent&nbsp;Gabrielle Emanuel&nbsp;shares two examples of how the global public health landscape may be shifting. First, the United States&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11565,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions\/11565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}