Trump chooses anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr as health secretary

Robert F Kennedy Jr (Morry Gash/AP)

US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

It would put Mr Kennedy in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical research and the social safety net programmes Medicare and Medicaid.