The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota has established the Vaccine Integrity Project to offer vaccine recommendations and to review safety and effectiveness data, according to a press release. The project is guided by public health and policy experts—some of which served in previous positions at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Academy of Medicine—who will offer strategies to leverage scientific evidence for vaccine-related practices. To start, the philanthropy-supported Vaccine Integrity Project will conduct a series of information-gathering sessions with medical associations, public health organizations, state officials, vaccine manufacturers, academic institutions, healthcare providers, insurers, pharmacies, and others. Among the goals is the identification of research gaps to strengthen the evidence base.
Healthcare as a whole: CIDRAP leaders stressed that the new project is not meant to be a substitute for any of the work conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or its dedicated Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.