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ARTICLE VIEW:
Five new members named to influential CDC vaccine advisory committee
days ahead of key meeting
By Katherine Dillinger, Brenda Goodman, CNN
Updated:
4:49 PM EDT, Mon September 15, 2025
Source: CNN
Five new members have been named to the US Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, the US Department of
Health and Human Services said Monday, just days ahead of a key meeting
about vaccines for Covid-19 and other diseases.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been to appoint as many as
seven new members for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,
which is tasked with reviewing the latest science on vaccines and then
making recommendations to the CDC on how they should be used.
The new members are Dr. Catherine Stein, an epidemiologist and
professor at Case Western Reserve University; Dr. Evelyn Griffin, an
obstetrician-gynecologist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Dr. Hillary
Blackburn, director of medication access and affordability at
AscensionRx and the daughter-in-law of Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a
Republican from Tennessee; Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist
with For Hearts and Souls Free Medical Clinic in Hawaii; and Dr.
Raymond Pollak, a surgeon and transplant immunobiologist.
Stein has been critical of the nation’s response to Covid-19,
including mask mandates and business closures. She co-authored a
research paper on flawed models used during the state’s pandemic
response for the group Health Freedom Ohio, which is affiliated with
Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by
Kennedy.
Griffin criticized the country’s response to Covid-19 and the push
for people to be vaccinated against it during a Health Freedom Day .
Milhoan appeared at a led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican
from Georgia, on injuries caused by Covid-19 vaccines. During the
panel, he said the vaccines had caused heart-related deaths and
disability, and he cited a study from the Cleveland Clinic that he said
showed that the more vaccines a person got, the more likely they were
to get Covid-19. Independent fact-checkers said that of the findings.
Pollak, a transplant specialist, was a in a case settled by the
University of Illinois at Chicago after he reported that its hospital
was diagnosing patients as sicker than they were to boost the number of
transplants performed there.
In June, Kennedy abruptly removed all 17 previous sitting ACIP members,
saying the panel was “plagued with persistent conflicts of
interest.” He provided no evidence to back up that claim, and a by
researchers at the University of Southern California found that
conflicts of interest on ACIP had been at historic lows for years.
Kennedy rapidly replaced the ACIP members with eight of his own ,
although one withdrew during the vetting process because of financial
conflicts of interest. Several have made unproven claims about
vaccines, including one who said, without evidence, that Covid shots
are causing “unprecedented levels of death and harm in young
people.”
The next ACIP meeting is set for Thursday and Friday, when the panel is
to discuss Covid-19 vaccines as well as those against hepatitis B;
measles, mumps, rubella and varicella; and respiratory syncytial virus.
The new additions to the committee are expected to participate in the
meeting.
Former ACIP members have said that a review of a new candidates,
including their conflicts of interest, typically occurs before their
appointment and takes two to three months.
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