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CDC's Vaccine Advisory Panel Gets a New Charter That Widens the Door on Membership and Mission

6/26/2026

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a revised governing charter for its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the expert panel that shapes how vaccines are recommended for use across the United States.

The new document, posted to the CDC's website on Thursday, substantially refocuses the committee's work — pulling back on its traditional role of recommending new vaccines and assigning it a formal responsibility to evaluate alternatives to vaccination as tools for disease prevention.

The membership criteria have also changed in ways that could open the panel to people with limited backgrounds in vaccines or vaccination policy.

What ACIP Is and Why Its Charter Matters ACIP is the committee that advises the CDC on which vaccines Americans should receive and when.