RFK Jr. names some vaccine critics to key CDC committee after ousting entire panel

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RFK Jr. names some vaccine critics to key CDC committee after ousting entire panel

PUBLISHED WED, JUN 11 2025 4:49 PM EDT
UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Annika Kim Constantino
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KEY POINTS
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to a crucial government panel of vaccine advisors after firing the entire group just days earlier.
- The new members will join the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- His picks include some well-known vaccine critics, including Dr. Robert Malone.


U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discusses the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network survey, during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 16, 2025.
Elizabeth Frantz Reuters

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday named eight new members to a crucial government panel of vaccine advisors after firing the entire group just days earlier.

His picks include some well-known vaccine critics, including Dr. Robert Malone.

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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/11/rfk-jr-malone-cdc-vaccine-committee.html

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Added Thursday morning:

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5430870/cdc-vaccine-experts-rfk-jr

SHOTS - HEALTH NEWS
RFK Jr. names new slate of vaccine advisers after purging CDC panel

JUNE 11, 2025 7:49 PM ET
By Will Stone, Pien Huang


Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked eight new members for a panel that helps set national vaccine policies.
Alex Wong/Getty Images

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled eight people he has chosen to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel – just two days after taking the unprecedented step of removing all 17 sitting members.

On Wednesday, Kennedy listed the names and short bios of the new advisers who will join the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, at its upcoming meeting in late June. … "All of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense," Kennedy said in a post on X, "They have each committed to demanding definitive safety and efficacy data before making any new vaccine recommendations."

The new members are Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln, Martin Kulldorff, Retsef Levi, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Cody Meissner, Dr. Michael A. Ross, Dr. James Pagano and Vicky Pebsworth.

"This is a huge win for the medical freedom [m]ovement," David Mansdoerfer, former deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services in the first Trump administration, wrote in a post on X, "they did everything by the book to put together this excellent slate of appointees."

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