Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads

Edwin J Asturias; Noel T Brewer; Oliver Brooks; Lin H Chen; Helen Y Chu; Sybil Cineas; Jamie Loehr; Denise J Jamieson; Mini Kamboj; George A Kuchel; Karyn Lyons; Yvonne A Maldonado; Charlotte A Moser; Robert Schechter; Albert C Shaw; Keipp Talbot; Jane R Zucker

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.10776

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads

JAMA. 2025 Aug 26;334(8):667-668. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.10776.

Authors

Edwin J Asturias¹, Noel T Brewer², Oliver Brooks³, Lin H Chen⁴, Helen Y Chu⁵, Sybil Cineas⁶, Jamie Loehr⁷, Denise J Jamieson⁸, Mini Kamboj⁹, George A Kuchel¹⁰, Karyn Lyons¹¹, Yvonne A Maldonado¹², Charlotte A Moser¹³, Robert Schechter¹⁴, Albert C Shaw¹⁵, Keipp Talbot¹⁶, Jane R Zucker¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ University of Colorado, Aurora.
² Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
³ Charles R. Drew University of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
⁴ Mount Auburn Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ University of Washington Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Seattle.
⁶ The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
⁷ Cayuga Family Medicine, Ithaca, New York.
⁸ University of Iowa, Iowa City.
⁹ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
¹⁰ University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington.
¹¹ Springfield, Illinois.
¹² Stanford University, Stanford, California.
¹³ Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
¹⁴ California Department of Public Health Immunization Branch, Richmond.
¹⁵ Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
¹⁶ Nashville, Tennessee.
¹⁷ SUNY Downstate School of Public Health, Brooklyn, New York.

PMID: 40522971
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.10776

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Plain language summary

In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, including impeding access to lifesaving vaccines and putting US families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses.