The FDA welcomed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, on April 11, 2025. The visit included remarks to FDA employees, meetings with agency leadership, and a tour of several medical device innovation laboratories on the FDA’s White Oak campus. The visit, which comes just days after Martin A. Makary, M.D. was sworn in as Commissioner of Food and Drugs, indicates the high priority that the Secretary has placed on the public health work of the FDA. During his remarks to FDA staff, Secretary Kennedy charged employees with the responsibility of responding to and ending the chronic healthcare crisis plaguing our nation’s children. In introducing Secretary Kennedy, Commissioner Makary thanked the Secretary for the confidence “you and the President have placed on me to lead this essential public health agency.” He pledged to build on the agency’s “long and distinguished history” to forge a new and even more effective path for public health by “applying the gold standard of scientific research” to help us find new cures for diseases and end the “epidemic of chronic illness we face in our nation today.” @ https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-honored-welcome-hhs-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-fda-campus?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
