
News|Videos|March 4, 2026
The Evolving Childhood Vaccine Schedule: Current ACIP’s Differing Meeting Approach
Author(s)John Parkinson
In this episode of our roundtable discussion, the panelists talk about the changes to the CDC’s ACIP meetings.
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Our roundtable series, Clinical Insights: Childhood Vaccine Schedule Changes, discusses the ongoing changes being made to the pediatric vaccine schedule, the inner workings of the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and how all of this is impacting US public health.
For clinicians and other interested stakeholders who have attended or participated in previous ACIP meetings they remark how things have changed under the current Health and Human Services leadership.
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