Department of Pediatrics

Anti-vaccine activist presents data to Kennedy's reshaped CDC advisory panel

Written by NBC News | June 26, 2025

Dr. David Higgins, a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, decried the document’s removal. “Decades of evidence were ignored or even hidden,” said Higgins, who wasn’t a part of the meeting. “That’s not being transparent. That’s not scientific integrity.”