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Analyzing MAHA: Influencers Shaping RFK Jr.’s HHS Agenda

Thu, Jun 12, 2025 | 10:00 am EDT

On Thursday, June 12 at 10:00 a.m. ET, The Capitol Forum will host a conference call with Jeremy Furchtgott and Riley Kruse of Baron Public Affairs to discuss their recent article analyzing the information environment around Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the key influencers in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.

To attend the call, you must provide a business email address. Registrations with a personal address will be denied.*

If you need assistance accessing the link, please email [email protected].

Join us to learn more about:

The top influencers around Secretary Kennedy and their views on health and nutrition
The divide within MAHA between those focused on the pharmaceutical industry and those focused on the food and agriculture sector
How Influencer Analytics can provide insight into potential policy directions

More About Our Speakers:

Jeremy Furchtgott is a Director at Baron Public Affairs, a political risk consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Mr. Furchtgott manages projects across the firm’s portfolio and developed Baron’s Influencer Analytics, an approach for identifying the most important sources of influence in the public sphere. Baron has advised clients in the health care sector for over a decade on some of the most contentious recent policy debates covering the commercial, individual, Medicare, and Medicaid markets, and issues including drug pricing, hospital pricing, tax treatment, FDA regulation, and risk adjustment. Since joining Baron in 2013, he has led the firm’s work on health care, China, energy, and transportation.

Riley Kruse is an Associate at Baron who leads the firm’s analysis of political and commercial competition in the health care sector, including associated intellectual trends in emerging ideological communities. He has played a central role in the firm’s work on drug pricing, price transparency, and health care competition as well as on food and nutrition policy. Mr. Kruse has specific expertise in tracking underappreciated financial relationships and business models in health care policy.