US EditionVaccine advisory panel set to revisit hepatitis B, other childhood shots next month
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will revisit hepatitis B vaccine policy after postponing prior votes, amid ongoing review of vaccine safety and immunization schedules.
- On Nov. 12, the CDC announced the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will convene Dec. 4 and Dec. 5 at CDC headquarters in Atlanta with sessions viewable remotely.
- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reshaped ACIP by removing prior members in June, appointing seven new panelists, and adding five more before the September session.
- At the prior September meeting, advisors postponed a vote on the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, while the public agenda includes the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule and vaccine safety.
- It remains unclear whether changes to the immunization schedule will be voted on in December, as a Federal Register notice does not confirm this, while ACIP launched a workgroup on childhood immunization schedule this year.
- Amid months of internal turmoil, the December meetings follow the August firing of CDC director Susan Monarez, PhD, and the departure of three other high-level agency leaders.
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