CDC posts 'conflicts of interest' database on vaccine advisory group
The CDC on Friday launched a database about current and former members of its independent vaccine advisory committee, including what it describes as conflicts of interests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday launched a webpage listing information about current and former members of its independent vaccine advisory committee, including what it describes as conflicts of interests.
The website was announced by the agency in a post on X late Friday morning.
The new database comes after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — whose department oversees the CDC and has postponed or canceled two major vaccine advisory committee meetings in recent weeks — has vowed to increase "radical transparency" at the federal health agencies.
It wasn't immediately clear, however, how the webpage would accomplish that.
Much of the information on the members of the committee, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, is already publicly available, including their previous work on clinical trials. The panel members — pediatricians, epidemiologists, public health experts and geriatricians — are volunteers who are selected by the health secretary, following an application and vetting process, according to the CDC.
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