据知情人士透露，卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）将于周一在美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）宣布一项旨在研究疫苗损伤的新研究计划。
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce a new research initiative at the National Institutes of Health to study vaccine injuries on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
知情人士称，肯尼迪将访问位于马里兰州贝塞斯达的NIH园区并公布该计划。
Kennedy will visit the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, to unveil the initiative, the people said.
卫生与公众服务部和美国国立卫生研究院的发言人没有立即回应置评请求。
Spokespeople for HHS and NIH didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
在竞选总统失利之前，肯尼迪曾担任反疫苗团体“儿童健康防卫”的负责人。他一直为那些认为免疫接种会导致比卫生专家承认的更广泛并发症的人群发声，并抨击旨在赔偿疫苗受害者的系统存在功能失调。
Before his failed presidential campaign, Kennedy served as the leader of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group. He has championed the cause of people who believe immunizations cause a variety of complications far broader than those acknowledged by health experts, and has railed against dysfunction in the system designed to compensate those who experience vaccine injuries.
肯尼迪上个月在“儿童健康防卫”组织的一次演讲中表示：“多年来，你们一直在体制外提出问题，就像我过去一样，现在我有幸并有责任领导这个部门。我可以调动联邦政府的全部力量来回答这些问题。”美国疾病控制与预防中心承认疫苗会引起副作用，但绝大多数副作用都是轻微的，会在几天内消失。联邦政府会监控所有医疗产品（包括疫苗）的不良事件报告。《科学》杂志上个月首次报道了这项研究计划的公布消息。
“For many years, you’ve asked questions from outside the government, as I did, and now I have the privilege and the responsibility of leading the department,” Kennedy said during a speech at Children’s Health Defense last month. “I can put the full weight of the federal government behind answering those questions.”The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledges that vaccines can cause side effects, but for the most part notes they are minor and resolve within a few days. The federal government monitors reports of adverse events for all medical products, including vaccines. Science first reported the plans to announce the research initiative last month.