More than 50 medical schools will expand nutrition education in agreement with RFK Jr.
At a time when his vaccine policies are causing pushback from doctors, Kennedy's allies push nutrition education as an area of common ground.
Reflecting the Make America Healthy Again movement’s focus on diet, more than 50 medical schools have agreed to update their approach to nutrition education at the behest of the Trump administration.
MAHA leaders say the agreements, being unveiled at an event on Thursday, showcase their ability to find common ground with the medical establishment in the quest to combat chronic disease even amid major conflicts over issues like vaccine policy.
Senior agency officials said on a call ahead of the event that each of the schools agreed to three specific actions:
- Performing a “comprehensive curriculum assessment” to understand the amount of nutrition education the schools currently offer
- Nominating a “faculty champion” to advance nutrition education
- Creating a public landing page with the school’s plan for getting to 40 hours of nutrition education or the equivalent starting in fall 2026
“We are actively looking for areas of common agreement to use this moment of MAHA political momentum to do things that are really unimpeachable,” said one official.
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