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Executive Order 14212

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

This executive order establishes the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission, chaired by the HHS Secretary, to combat rising chronic disease rates in America with an initial focus on childhood chronic disease. The Commission must produce an assessment within 100 days and a strategy within 180 days on causes including diet, environmental factors, medical treatments, and corporate influence, while directing multiple agencies to prioritize disease prevention, research integrity, and healthy food production.

Federal Register Open PDF 90 FR 9833

Impact dates

  1. Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment due to President

Key directives

  • Establish President's Make America Healthy Again Commission chaired by HHS Secretary with Domestic Policy Assistant as Executive Director
  • NIH and federal health research to prioritize root-cause research on chronic disease
  • Agencies to work with farmers to ensure US food is healthiest, most abundant, most affordable
  • Agencies to ensure expanded treatment options and insurance flexibility for lifestyle changes and prevention
  • Commission to submit Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment within 100 days
  • Commission to submit Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy within 180 days
  • Strategy to address ending federal practices that exacerbate health crisis
  • Assessment to evaluate SSRI, antipsychotic, mood stabilizer, stimulant, and weight-loss drug prescription prevalence
  • Assessment to restore scientific integrity by eliminating undue industry influence and increasing transparency

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Commission established with specified membership
  • HHS Secretary designated as Chair
  • Assistant to President for Domestic Policy designated as Executive Director

Near term (90d)

  • Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment due (100 days)
  • Commission to study childhood chronic disease causes including diet, toxins, medical treatments, environmental factors, electromagnetic radiation, corporate influence
  • Assessment of medication over-utilization (SSRIs, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, weight-loss drugs)
  • Evaluation of existing federal childhood health programs and data systems

Long term

  • Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy due (180 days)
  • Potential restructuring of federal response to childhood chronic disease
  • Possible mission updates and additional reports after Strategy submission
  • Agency implementation of nutrition, lifestyle, and prevention-focused policies

Risks & tensions

  • Mandate to 'eliminate undue industry influence' and review industry-funded projects may conflict with existing public-private research partnerships and FDA user-fee frameworks
  • Broad scope including 'electromagnetic radiation' and unspecified 'chemicals' as potential contributing causes risks politicization of scientific assessment
  • Direction to 'end federal practices that exacerbate the health crisis' is vague and could justify wide-ranging policy reversals
  • Commission's work pauses after Strategy submission until new mission approved, creating potential implementation gap
  • Assessment of specific drug classes (SSRIs, stimulants, weight-loss drugs) may preempt ongoing regulatory processes or prescribing guidelines
  • 'Applicable law' and 'availability of appropriations' caveats in Section 7 may limit enforceability of directives
Executive Order 14212: Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission · Executive Orders