Brigid Rasmussen comes to the Digital Social Hour with a clear point of view and a specific vantage point from which to share it. As COO of MAHA Alliance — an organization built around the Make America Healthy Again movement — she has spent considerable time thinking about what she sees as the structural forces driving chronic illness in the United States. Brigid Rasmussen sat down with Sean Kelly to walk through her concerns and the work she believes needs to happen.
The conversation covers a lot of ground: the pharmaceutical industry's role in shaping health outcomes, how she views the food system's contribution to the rise of chronic disease, and what she sees as inadequate transparency in how health policy decisions get made. Throughout, these are her perspectives and the lens through which MAHA Alliance operates.
About Brigid Rasmussen
Brigid Rasmussen is the COO of MAHA Alliance, a health advocacy organization aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement. She describes working alongside figures including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and has been involved in efforts to bring grassroots pressure to bear on pharmaceutical regulation and food policy.
Her work centers on what she characterizes as the root causes of chronic disease — from the ingredients in processed foods to the practices of the prescription drug industry — and she has been an outspoken voice for what she argues is greater accountability and informed choice in healthcare decisions.
What Brigid Rasmussen and Sean Kelly Talked About
- Brigid Rasmussen's perspective on pharmaceutical industry incentives and what she views as an overprescription epidemic
- Her account of the MAHA movement's goals and the legislative work it is pursuing around public health
- Why she believes food system reform — including school lunch standards — is central to addressing chronic disease
- Her concerns about foreign ownership of American farmland and the national security dimensions she attaches to it
- How she frames the mental health crisis and the diagnostic practices she sees as contributing to misidentification
- Her views on infant mortality data and what she argues the statistics reveal about American healthcare outcomes
- The role she believes censorship plays in limiting public debate around health and medicine
- What she says the grassroots momentum behind MAHA looks like and how it is translating into policy activity
Why This Conversation Matters
Whether or not listeners share every conclusion Brigid Rasmussen reaches, her episode with Sean Kelly is a direct window into the health-policy concerns motivating the MAHA movement — a set of arguments that have gained significant political traction and that anyone trying to understand the current conversation around American public health will want to be familiar with.
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