Declared Conflicts of Interest for CDC Advisers Dropped Before RFK Jr. Dismissals: Study

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Advisers were dismissed by the Health and Human Services secretary, who cited conflicts of interest.

Conflicts of interest declared by vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped significantly before the advisers were all dismissed by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a new study.

The reported conflict of interest prevalence rate at Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meetings declined from 13.5 percent from 2000 to 2004 to 6.2 percent from 2016 to 2024, researchers found after examining declared interests in a new tool released by the HHS, the CDCโ€™s parent agency.

The average annual rates of conflicts reported by ACIP members fell from 42.8 percent to 5 percent.

There was also a decline over time in reported conflicts of interest for the parallel panel that advises the Food and Drug Administration, although the conflict reporting rate for that panel bounced back up from zero percent per meeting from 2008 to 2015 to 1.9 percent from 2016 to 2024.

The study was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association on Aug. 18.

โ€œIn the past, there have been high levels of reported conflicts on influential vaccine committees, but there has been substantial progress since the early 2000s,โ€ study co-author Genevieve Kanter, senior scholar at the Schaeffer Center and associate professor at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy, said in a statement. โ€œAlthough itโ€™s important to remain vigilant, conflicts of interest on vaccine advisory committees have been at historically low levels for quite some time.โ€

The study was funded in part by the Harvey Motulsky and Lisa Norton-Motulsky Fund. Kanter and a co-author also reported receiving funding from Arnold Ventures for unrelated work.

The study only examined declared conflicts of interest. An Epoch Times review found that multiple ACIP panel members in 2024 cast votes on vaccine recommendations even though they were receiving, or had recently received, money from companies that would be affected by the recommendations.

โ€œHHS is ensuring radical transparency and restoring public trust,โ€ HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon told The Epoch Times via email. โ€œEarlier this year we launched the ACIP Conflicts of Interest tool so the public can easily view historical conflicts.

โ€œSecretary Kennedy is committed to eliminating both real and perceived conflicts to strengthen confidence in public health decisions.โ€

By Zachary Stieber

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