CDC adds page to website showing vaccine advisory board members' ‘conflicts of interest’

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added a page to its website that lists members of the agency's vaccine advisory board's conflicts of interest. 

Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday referred to this as a step toward “radical transparency,” on the social media platform, X.

The new tool on the CDC website lists the alleged conflicts of interest for the outside members of the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

The point of this page is to show how many members of the committee have conflicts of interest to vaccine companies.

"Members with declared interests are instructed to recuse themselves from participating in the deliberations and votes regarding any product for which they have a conflict of interest," the website states.

A former ACIP told The Hill newspaper in an interview that this information isn't new and has always been available to the public.

“I heard they were going to do this. There’s nothing new,” Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told the outlet. “This has always been available to the public.”