On Dec. 9, the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID) hosted a webinar featuring physician leaders who have served in both medical and public office to discuss how doctors, pharmacists, and public health leaders can help Americans navigate evolving vaccine guidance. The conversation focused on medically grounded information, the urgency to preserve access and options, and reinforcement of credible sources to keep constituents healthy. The discussion featured: Dr. Jerome Adams, 20th...

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 shape vaccines...

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 conclusion could impact...