As the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) holds its final 2025 meeting (Dec. 4–5), medical societies, public health organizations, and patient advocates sounded alarms about the direction of the committee’s decisions. More than 12,000 people and organizations submitted written comments  ahead of the meeting but less than 4,000 were publicly published before the sessions began. Many comments raised concerns about topics on the agenda, how ACIP decisions

Credible public health guidance considers transparent, reproducible, and rigorously peer-reviewed evidence. Decades of empirical data and high-quality studies have shown no connection between vaccines and autism diagnoses, reinforced again this summer by a 24-year analysis of 1.2 million children showing no association with 50 chronic conditions, including autism. But the long-debunked myth persists, and a new publication that used flawed methods to reach a misleading conclus

On Nov. 19, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said  he instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to make a significant change to its website , falsely suggesting a connection between vaccines and autism. The current language now sows confusion despite a long list of studies involving millions of children – including one published this summer  – that have repeatedly shown there is no link between vaccines and autism. Public

November 25, 2025 The Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the agenda items for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting scheduled for December 4-5, 2025. The need to uphold a strong, evidence-based childhood vaccination schedule could not be clearer: the U.S. faces the real possibility of losing of its measles elimination status amid more than 1,700 confirmed cases  and counting this year,  whooping c

November 10, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) The Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID) released the following statement in response to Canada losing its 27-year measles elimination status: “Canada’s loss of its measles elimination status after 27 years should be a wake-up call for all Americans and our policymakers. With more than 5,000 cases and two infant deaths over the past year, Canada’s backslide shows how quickly decades of progress can vanish. The dangers of misinfo

As the Senate prepares to consider  the nomination of Casey Means for U.S. surgeon general, members of Congress must ensure America’s chief health communicator can advance prevention, rebuild public trust, and strengthen the country’s readiness for future infectious disease threats.   Here are five questions that address urgent priorities for families and clinicians across the U.S.   How will the surgeon general address ongoing measles outbreaks and the looming threat to Amer