MedPage Today November 16, 2025
Form a new AMA vaccine advisory committee or fight to bring the disbanded ACIP back?
National Harbor, Md. — Should the American Medical Association (AMA) establish its own vaccine advisory committee or focus instead on restoring the original CDC committee? Members took up that debate during a small committee session at the AMA House of Delegates interim meeting.
In June, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ousted all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and replaced them with people whose vaccine skepticism aligned with his own.
Dave Cundiff, MD, MPH, a delegate for the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP), helped author a draft policy statement calling for the AMA to convene key stakeholders to...
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