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HHS Starts Recruiting Advisers for CDC Vaccine Panel
HHS has begun recruiting new vaccine advisers for a panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking to revive the CDC's vaccine advisory panel.
The panel has been dormant since last year.
A federal judge blocked Kennedy's efforts to change the panel, though the available details do not specify which efforts were blocked.
The panel's purpose is to provide advice on vaccines at the CDC.
HHS has started recruitment, but no further next steps are given.
The Department of Health and Human Services has begun recruiting new advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking to revive the panel.
The panel has been dormant since last year.
A federal judge blocked Kennedy’s efforts to revive it.
- Who
- HHS and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- What
- HHS has begun recruiting new advisers for the CDC vaccine advisory panel.
- When
- The Hill reported the recruiting effort on October 29, 2026.
- Where
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Why
- Kennedy is looking to revive the panel, which has been dormant since last year.
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The CDC vaccine advisory panel became dormant.
The Hill reported that HHS had begun recruiting new advisers for the panel.
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Panel
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory panel
- Health secretary
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Publication date
- October 29, 2026