Volume 405, Issue 10496
21 June 2025
WORLD REPORT The organisation, which represents more than 270 000 physicians and medical students, has
been reluctant to criticise the Trump administration’s actions, until now. Susan Jaffe reports.
After months of relative quiet while the Trump administration overhauls US health and science agencies, the American Medical Association has had enough. When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr dismissed all 17 members of the independent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, delegates attending AMA’s annual meeting strongly condemned the action. On June 10, more than 700 delegates approved an emergency resolution calling on Kennedy to reverse his decision [and] required AMA leadership to “immediately” ask the Senate committee overseeing HHS to investigate Kennedy’s actions “regarding his administration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices”. [Continued here.]