childrenshealthdefense.org For years, Katy Talento kept Robert F. Kennedy Jr. away from senior officials, managed the concerns of vaccine-skeptical parents, and trusted the public health establishment she had spent her career serving. Now she says that was a mistake.
A former White House public health adviser today publicly admitted that during the first Trump administration, she was directed to limit Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s access to senior officials.
In a Substack post titled “Confessions of a White House Public Health Priestess,” epidemiologist Katy Talento, who served on the White House Domestic Policy Council, describes an internal effort to manage which voices were allowed into federal health discussions.
“I kept Robert F. Kennedy Jr. out of the West Wing. Now I owe him an apology,” Talento wrote.
Talento did not say who specifically directed her to limit Kennedy’s access.
Commenting on the essay, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) CEO Mary Holland said:
“I wish that more people would come out and say that they were mistaken. I think it is a brave thing to do and the world would benefit from more people saying, ‘I was misled, and I did things that I now regret.’”
Talento’s essay is a retrospective on two decades in public health, including roles advising lawmakers and working at senior levels of federal policymaking.
She details her transformation from a key player advising on mainstream vaccine and public health policies, and supporting vaccines “religiously … because I had been trained in the orthodoxy of public health,” to becoming skeptical after what she calls a “cascade of eye-opening episodes.”
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