The ACIP or Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is a group of fifteen volunteer medical and public health experts who make vaccine recommendations for children and adults in the United States.

The ACIP:

• helps the CDC set the US childhood immunization schedule, along with the AAP and AAFP.
• includes a consumer representative and fourteen experts from the fields of vaccinology, immunology, pediatrics, internal medicine, nursing, family medicine, virology, public health, infectious diseases, and/or preventive
  medicine.
• are appointed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of
  Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• holds three meetings a year at the CDC

For more information:

• About ACIP – CDC
• Recent ACIP Recommendations
• Vaccine-Specific ACIP Recommendations
• ACIP Meetings
• ACIP Updates and Reasons to Dismiss Vaccine Conspiracy Theories

• Immunization Schedules