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Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immuniza...
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose:
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is charged with advising the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on the use of immunizing agents. In addition, under 42 U.S.C. 1396s, the Committee is mandated to establish and periodically review and, as appropriate, revise the list of vaccines for administration to vaccine-eligible children through the Vaccines for Children program, along with schedules regarding dosing interval, dosage, and contraindications to administration of vaccines. Further, under applicable provisions of the Affordable Care Act and section 2713 of the Public Health Service Act, immunization recommendations of ACIP that have been adopted by the Director, CDC, and appear on CDC immunization schedules generally must be covered by applicable health plans.
Matters to be Considered:
The agenda will include discussions on vaccine safety, the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule, and hepatitis B vaccines. The agenda will include updates on ACIP workgroups. Recommendation votes may be scheduled for hepatitis B vaccines. Vaccines for Children (VFC) votes may be scheduled for hepatitis B vaccines. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate. For more information on the meeting agenda, visit
https://www.cdc.gov/acip/index.html.
Meeting Information:
The meeting will be webcast live via the World Wide Web. For more information on ACIP, please visit the ACIP website
https://www.cdc.gov/acip.
Public Participation
Interested persons or organizations are invited to participate by submitting written views, recommendations, and data. Please note that comments received, including attachments and other supporting materials, are part of the public record and are subject to public disclosure. Comments will be posted on
https://www.regulations.gov.
Therefore, do not include any information in your comment or supporting materials that you consider confidential or inappropriate for public disclosure. If you include your name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in the body of your comments, that information will be on public display. CDC will review all submissions and may choose to redact, or withhold, submissions containing private or proprietary information such as Social Security numbers, medical information, inappropriate language, or duplicate/near-duplicate examples of mass-mail campaigns. CDC will carefully consider all comments submitted into docket.
Written Public Comment:
The docket will be opened to receive written comments November 13-24, 2025. Written comments must be received no later than November 24, 2025.
Oral Public Comment:
This meeting will include time for members of the public to make an oral comment. Oral public comment will occur before any scheduled votes, including all votes relevant to the ACIP's Affordable Care Act and Vaccines for Children Program roles. Priority will be given to individuals who submit a request to make an oral comment before the meeting according to the procedures below.
Procedure for Oral Public Comment:
All persons interested in making an oral public comment at the December 4-5, 2025 ACIP meeting must submit a request at
https://www.cdc.gov/acip/meetings/index.html
between November 13-24, 2025, and no later than 11:59 p.m. EST, November 24, 2025, according to the instructions provided.
If the number of persons requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably accommodated during the scheduled time, CDC will conduct a random draw to determine the speakers for the scheduled public comment session. CDC staff will notify individuals regarding their request to speak by email by December 1, 2025. To accommodate the significant interest in participation in the oral public comment session of ACIP meetings, each speaker will be limited to three minutes, and each speaker may speak only once per meeting.
The Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been delegated the authority to sign
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notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and other committee management activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Kalwant Smagh,
Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.