Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Wednesday he had appointed eight new members to the influential Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) – the group that makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the safety, efficacy, and “clinical need” for vaccines.
The move comes only days after Kennedy retired all 17 sitting members of ACIP as a deliberate sign his agency is “prioritizing the restoration of public trust above any specific pro- or anti-vaccine agenda.”
“The slate includes highly credentialed scientists, leading public-health experts, and some of America’s most accomplished physicians,” Kennedy announced in a social media post about the new appointments.
“All of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense,” he declared. “They have each committed to demanding definitive safety and efficacy data before making any new vaccine recommendations. The committee will review safety and efficacy data for the current schedule as well.”
On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s…
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) June 11, 2025
The new ACIP members are:
Joseph R. Hibbeln, M.D., a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who once served as Acting Chief of the Section on Nutritional Neurosciences at the National Institutes of Health where he led research on immune regulation, neurodevelopment, and mental health.
Martin Kulldorff, M.D., Ph.D., a former Harvard University biostatistician and epidemiologist and a leading expert in vaccine safety and infectious disease surveillance. Kulldorff joined current National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., and Oxford Professor Sunetra Gupta in authoring the Great Barrington Declaration. The declaration argued against mandatory universal pandemic lockdowns and in favor of age-based focused protection for the elderly, while letting children and young adults live their lives normally. Kulldorff was forced out of Harvard for daring to dissent from the prevailing pandemic narratives.
Meet Dr @MartinKulldorff, dear friend/colleague, past Harvard Prof of Medicine, strong voice against harmful unethical/unscientific lockdowns/mandates & now appointed to US’ Advisory Cmte for Immunization Practices
— Kulvinder Kaur MD (@dockaurG) June 13, 2025
His integrity, intelligence, humility are assets to his new role https://t.co/Nyq2lynQDV
In a great win for academic freedom, NIH director @drjbhattacharya has removed the old rule that research manuscripts by NIH scientists must be approved by their superiors before it could be published.https://t.co/0XeFwaAzNr
— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) May 27, 2025
The key strength of MAHA is its evidence-based multi-focus on the immune system, environment, mental health, nutrition and exercise, including the 10 big A’s: Autism, Allergy, Asthma, Auto-immune disorders, ADHD, Anorexia, Anxiety/depression, Abuse, Alienation and Addiction. pic.twitter.com/lNtFN1OxDS
— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) May 21, 2025
Retsef Levi, Ph.D., is the professor of Operations Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and a key expert in healthcare analytics, risk management, and vaccine safety.
The evidence is mounting and indisputable that MRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death, especially among young people. We have to stop giving them immediately! pic.twitter.com/chFLvqlDqu
— Retsef Levi (@RetsefL) January 30, 2023
Thrilled with the appointment of Retsef Levi to the CDC’s advisory vaccine committee.
— Kat A 🌸 (@SaiKate108) June 11, 2025
One of the first to alert the world to the serious myocarditis signal from Israel in 2021.
Most recently dropping the bombshell Florida study of 1.47 million people on the dangers of Pfizer.… pic.twitter.com/xjN4AagrZu
Robert W. Malone, M.D., is a physician, scientist, vaccine expert, and journalist known for his early contributions to mRNA vaccine technology. In his Substack column “Malone News,” he writes that he believes “the short cuts that the USG have taken in bringing the mRNA and the adenovirus vaccines to market for this pandemic have been detrimental and contrary to globally accepted standards for developing and regulating safe and effective licensed products.”
What is about to be deployed by the dying legacy media will be very instructive to any paying attention.
— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) June 13, 2025
They make no pretense of objectivity.
Just received this from the Atlantic Monthly. This is typical.
“Dr. Malone,
I'm a reporter over at The Atlantic. I just wanted to…
Just in case you have any doubt about Secretary Kennedy’s decision to replace and rebuild the CDC ACIP…. https://t.co/TOuqT2Vn7A
— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) June 11, 2025
Cody Meissner, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and a leading expert in pediatric infectious diseases and vaccine policy.
James Pagano, M.D., is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician with over 40 years of clinical experience following his residency at UCLA.
Vicky Pebsworth, OP, Ph.D., R.N., earned a doctorate in public health and nursing from the University of Michigan and has worked in the healthcare field for more than 45 years.
Michael A. Ross, M.D., is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at George Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kennedy stated in his announcement that the new ACIP members will attend the committee’s next scheduled meeting on June 25.
On June 9, Kennedy spoke at the Cell and Gene Therapy Roundtable, hosted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he reiterated the basis of the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) plan: “We need to transform ourselves to a health care system rather than a sick care system.”
Thank you, @DrMakaryFDA, for inviting me to speak at your Cell and Gene Therapy Roundtable.
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) June 9, 2025
Our entire healthcare system runs on a bundle of perverse incentives. We must transform it from a sick-care system to a health care system. Doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies,… pic.twitter.com/G2zhgzzUhw
“[I]n order to do that, we need to … unravel all these perverse incentives,” the secretary continued. “But really, this whole agency … our whole healthcare system is a bundle of perverse incentives, where people make money by doing bad things at every level: the doctors, other providers, the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance companies – all make money by keeping us sick.”
“And we need to fundamentally change that so that we are focusing on curing disease, and making people better,” Kennedy asserted. “And the way that we’re going to do that is by unraveling those incentives and really focusing on curing disease.”
Just in case you have any doubt about Secretary Kennedy’s decision to replace and rebuild the CDC ACIP…. https://t.co/TOuqT2Vn7A
— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) June 11, 2025
On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s…
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) June 11, 2025