Calley Means, an influential adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the brother of President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, quietly departed the White House at the end of his term as a special government employee about a month ago, he said in an interview Wednesday night.

For much of the last six months, Means has acted as the health secretary’s right hand, coordinating a major presidential commission report on what it described as the dire state of children’s health and sparring on television and online with vaccine scientists and doctors who objected to Kennedy’s campaign to remake American medicine.

He also drew criticism from Democratic members of Congress for the financial advantages he stood to gain from changes to the health care system being pursued by

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