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
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