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JULY 2, 2025

Pharmacist, Other ID Stakeholders Slam ACIP Purge

By Gina Shaw and Marie Rosenthal
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Elizabeth Dodds Ashley, PharmD

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s June 9 announcement that he had dismissed all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been met with near-universal condemnation from top infectious disease (ID) experts and societies. His naming of a new slate of eight members has triggered similar consternation.

Count at least one ID pharmacist among the critics of the