RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel

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Source: Bloomberg

June 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT
Updated on June 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT


The Department of Health and Human Services dismissed all 17 members that make up one of the main committees advising the US government on vaccine safety and policy, an unprecedented move to reshape a key scientific panel. "A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science," Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal.

The group, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, reviews the latest data and makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which typically implements them. The group's positions are influential and determine whether insurers cover shots, among other things.

Many of the members had received substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies, including vaccine manufacturers, Kennedy said in his commentary, without providing evidence. Committee members are required to declare potential conflicts of interest and recuse themselves from debates or votes on those products.

"The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine," Kennedy wrote. Some committee members had no idea they had lost their positions until seeing the decision reported in the news, according to people familiar with the matter.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-09/kennedy-removes-all-members-of-cdc-panel-advising-on-vaccines?srnd=homepage-americas

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RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Panel Advising on Vaccines

June 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT


The Department of Health and Human Services is retiring the 17 members of a committee of government vaccine advisers, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday.

"A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science," Kennedy said in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal.

The group, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, reviews the latest data and makes recommendations that determine whether insurers cover shots, among other things.