"Officials at the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Vaccine Integrity Project, run by the University of Minnesota, said the effort is designed to ensure a deliberative, evidence-driven approach to produce the data necessary to understand the risks and benefits of vaccine policy decisions for all populations, according to a joint statement issued on Tuesday. The groups will not make vaccine recommendations in the same way that the CDC does and will instead aim to provide doctors and families with science-backed guidance."
"Since the Trump administration returned to the White House last year, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, has overseen a broad rollback of the country's recommended childhood vaccines. In December 2025 the CDC cut the number of routine recommended vaccines for kids from shots that protect against 17 diseases to those that protect against 11a move experts decried as undermining public health and endangering children."
The American Medical Association and the Vaccine Integrity Project are launching an independent effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness. The initiative will parallel a key public health role historically performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The groups plan to produce deliberative, evidence-driven analyses to generate data that clarify risks and benefits of vaccine policy across populations. The effort will provide science-backed guidance for doctors and families rather than issuing formal vaccine recommendations like the CDC. The collaboration follows recent federal changes that reduced routine childhood vaccine recommendations from 17 to 11, a move criticized as undermining public health and endangering children.
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