Update From the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

摘要

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is a committee composed of medical and public health experts and one community representative that meets three times a year to develop vaccine recommendations for the civilian population in the United States. ACIP recommendations become official recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when adopted by the CDC Director and published in the MMWR (http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/ACIP-list-by-date.htm). Members of ACIP include people with expertise in vaccines, public health, and various aspects of medicine and preventive medicine (http://annals.org/article.aspx? articleid=744177). Members of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society frequently serve on this committee and on ACIP working groups, and our society serves as one of 31 ex-officio organizations that participate as nonvoting representatives. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID) also works closely with the ACIP to maximize harmonization between the CDC and the AAP. The ACIP last met at the CDC on June 19-20, 2013. During this meeting there were two votes taken (JE vaccine and influenza vaccine), and several other topics were discussed. All ACIP vaccine recommendations will have GRADE applied (http://www. cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/recs/GRADE/table-refs.html).