The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a webpage detailing the conflicts of interest of members of a vaccine advisory committee, increasing the pressure on a group the new health secretary has already placed under tight scrutiny.
The move comes after the committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, has been singled out by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for reform — despite his previous assurances that he would not do exactly that.
The page states that its goal is to “improve transparency about member conflicts of interest” and lists previous disclosures made by committee members in the last 25 years. Conflicts of interest were already publicly available in committee meeting notes but were not easily searchable. The new database makes disclosures searchable by committee member name.