Here's what is likely on RFK Jr.’s to-do list if he's confirmed to the top US health post

Although President-elect Donald Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world, with experts concerned about his potential effects on vaccination rates, research on infectious diseases and misrepresentation of established science.

Here are some of the areas where Kennedy has said he’s planning to make changes:

“Cleaning up” HHS: In a statement after Thursday’s announcement, Kennedy said he’s eager to work with Health and Human Services employees to rid public health agencies of “corporate capture” and to “clean up corruption.”

Vaccines: Kennedy has promoted false claims about vaccination for years and founded the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense, which promotes anti-vaccine material such as the recent documentary “Vaxed III: Authorized to Kill.”

Fluoridated water: Kennedy has said the second Trump administration would advise that fluoride be removed from the nation’s water supply. “On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease,” he wrote in a social media post. Here’s what the science says about fluoride.

Food: Kennedy has advocated for regulating chemicals in food and limiting access to soda and processed foods through school lunches and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as well as proposing an idea to swap tallow fat in for seed oils to make McDonald’s french fries healthier.