STAT+: HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services is sitting on information about new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest, and seemingly backtracking on its vow to make key disclosure documents public. 

Agency officials previously said they would release ethics forms for seven new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices before the group’s first meeting in late June. That deadline came and went. 

The lack of information on new ACIP appointees stands in stark contrast to the detailed conflict-of-interest database for prior panelists that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. added to the agency’s website. The searchable page, filed under the “Radical Transparency” section, was created just a few weeks into his tenure.

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