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Texas Medical Center (TMC) Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas and TAMEST; Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year 2022
each episode, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. leads direct conversations with doctors, scientists, and innovators who are challenging assumptions and advancing new approaches to care. These discussions focus on the evidence, the systems that influence outcomes, and the practical steps needed to improve health across the country.
Prof. Peter Hotez is a vaccine scientist and pediatrician. He co-directs the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and is dean of Baylor's National School of Tropical Medicine. He has been one of the most visible critics of Secretary Kennedy's vaccine policies, including the January 2026 childhood schedule cuts, the overhaul of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee (ACIP), and the new vaccine-injury initiative. He also has a personal stake: he wrote 'Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism' and has a daughter with autism. That lets him speak to Kennedy's autism and vaccine claims from both a scientific and a family perspective. With the schedule changes still being fought in court, he can give listeners an informed, direct counterpoint to the Secretary's agenda.
Curated by dLogos 26 days ago
Curated by dLogos 26 days ago
Curated by dLogos 26 days agoOct 15, 2026
🚀 Nomination created: Prof Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist who has publicly disagreed with Secretary Kennedy for years, is nominated for The Secretary Kennedy Podcast, whose stated focus is on evidence and the systems that shape health outcomes. The show's latest episode on HHS…🚀 Nomination created: Prof Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist who has publicly disagreed with Secretary Kennedy for years, is nominated for The Secretary Kennedy Podcast, whose stated focus is on evidence and the systems that shape health outcomes. The show's latest episode on HHS.gov is Episode 12, so the guest list is still being built.
Oct 15, 2026
📡 Why now: Secretary Kennedy fired all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee in June 2025, and Hotez has described his own attempts to change Kennedy's mind on vaccines in interviews since then. The nomination proposes taking that disagreement to a long-form, eviden…📡 Why now: Secretary Kennedy fired all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee in June 2025, and Hotez has described his own attempts to change Kennedy's mind on vaccines in interviews since then. The nomination proposes taking that disagreement to a long-form, evidence-first conversation.
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Can open-source, low-cost vaccines like Corbevax be a model for global health?
Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi developed a patent-free COVID vaccine at Texas Children's. Ask how this approach could work with a U.S. health agenda focused on cost, access and reducing dependence on large pharmaceutical companies.
Neglected tropical diseases are still a major global health problem
Hotez has spent his career on hookworm, schistosomiasis, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. These diseases are also found in poor parts of the U.S., including Texas and the Gulf Coast. Discuss their link to poverty, and why they get so little attention compared with chronic disease.
Why do you think vaccine hesitancy has become so politically polarized?
Hotez has argued in 'The Deadly Rise of Anti-science' that vaccine opposition has become a political movement and not just a medical one. Explore whether public health messaging helped cause this, and what it would take to depolarize the issue.
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