STAT February 15, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it is filling eight vacancies, including the chairmanship, on an important advisory panel on vaccine policy that was down to less than half of its normal roster for months.
It’s still not clear why so many positions were left unfilled on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. STAT reported on the vacancies, which had flummoxed public health experts in the country, last week.
A senior HHS official, who asked not to be named, also indicated that the size of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will be expanded by one, taking the committee to 16 voting members.
Helen Keipp Bredenberg Talbot, an infectious diseases researcher at Vanderbilt University, will be...
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