Organizations announce projects to strengthen vaccine policy, restore trust

To strengthen the federal government’s vaccine policy-making process, the Vaccine Integrity Project at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will conduct research. It will gather information from sessions with public health stakeholders, members of the public and comparative analysis of committees and analyze how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has assessed and recommended vaccines. It will investigate practices to strengthen scientific independence, conflict-of-interest safeguards, transparency, emergency response protocols and sharing across presidential administrations. Meanwhile, the Evidence Collective will conduct research to rebuild trust in vaccines. Separately, a CIDRAP Op-Ed contends the U.S. effectively has lost its measles elimination status and needs to push vaccination coverage and build and maintain an effective surveillance system. (CIDRAP news article, 6/24/26)