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MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES (ACIP) 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

1600 Clifton Road, NE, Tom Harkin Global Communications Center (Building 19), Atlanta, Georgia 

June 25-26, 2008 

AGENDA ITEM PURPOSE PRESIDER/PRESENTER(s)

Wednesday June 25

8:00 Welcome & Introductions

 

 Dr. Dale Morse (Chair, ACIP) 

Dr. Larry Pickering (Executive 

Secretary, ACIP; CDC) 

8:30 Pneumococcal Vaccines

• Pneumococcal Vaccines Workgroup: update

• Use of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in 

adults

• Considerations regarding new risk factor information

• Use of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in 

children previously vaccinated with pneumococcal 

conjugate vaccine 

Information 

Information 

Discussion 

Information 

Discussion 

Vote 

Information 

Discussion 

Vote 

Dr. Julie Morita (ACIP, WG Chair) 

Dr. Pekka Nuorti 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DBD) 

Dr. Jennifer Rosen, Dr. Pekka Nuorti 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DBD) 

Dr. Pekka Nuorti 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DBD) 

10:30 Break 

11:00 Combination Vaccines

• Combination Workgroup activities & information 

• Pentacel® 

• Pentacel® safety, immunogenicity, indications and 

use 

• KINRIXTM 

• KINRIXTM safety, immunogenicity, indications and 

use 

• VFC vote for Pentacel® & KINRIXTM 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Discussion 

VFC Vote 

Ms. Patricia Stinchfield, RN, MS, 

CPNP (ACIP, WG Chair)

Dr. David Greenberg (sanofi pasteur) 

Dr. M. Patricia Joyce 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DBD) 

Dr. Leonard Friedland (GSK) 

Dr. Angela Calugar 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/ISD) 

Dr. Greg Wallace 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/ISD) 

11:55 Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella (MMRV) Vaccine

• MMRV Vaccine Safety Workgroup: update Information Dr. Jonathan Temte 

 (ACIP, WG Chair) 

12:00 Lunch 

1:00 Rotavirus Vaccines

• Rotavirus Vaccines Workgroup: update 

• Update on safety monitoring of RotaTeq® 

• Update on 2007/08 rotavirus season 

• Rotarix® vaccine: summary of efficacy and safety 

data, and GSK post-licensure monitoring plans 

• Update on cost-effectiveness of rotavirus 

vaccination 

• Plans for post-marketing safety monitoring of 

Rotarix® 

• Proposed Rotarix® vaccine recommendations and 

updated RotaTeq® vaccine recommendations 

• VFC vote 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Discussion 

Vote 

VFC Vote 

Dr. Lance Chilton (ACIP, WG Chair) 

Ms. Penina Haber (CDC/OCSO/ISO), 

Dr. James Baggs (CDC/OCSO/ISO) 

Ms. Cathy Panozzo 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DVD) 

Dr. Leonard Friedland (GSK) 

Dr. Marc-Alain Widdowson 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DVD) 

Ms. Penina Haber (CDC/OCSO/ISO) 

Dr. Margaret Cortese 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DVD) 

Dr. Greg Wallace 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/ISD) 
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3:35 Break 

3:50 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines

• HPV Vaccines Workgroup update and session 

overview 

• Cost effectiveness of HPV vaccination in the US 

• Review of HPV vaccine economic analyses in the US 

• Recommendations for women age 26-45 years: 

issues and options for quadrivalent HPV vaccine 

• Quadrivalent HPV vaccine dose intervals – VFC vote 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Discussion 

VFC Vote 

Dr. Janet Englund (ACIP, WG Chair) 

Dr. Lauri Markowitz 

(CDC/CCID/NCHHSTP/DSTDP) 

Dr. Jane Kim (Harvard University) 

Dr. Harrell Chesson 

(CDC/CCID/NCHHSTP/DSTDP) 

Dr. Eileen Dunne 

(CDC/CCID/NCHHSTP/DSTDP) 

Dr. Greg Wallace 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/ISD) 

5:10 Public Comment 

5:30 Adjourn

Thursday June 26

8:00 Unfinished Business Dr. Dale Morse (Chair, ACIP) 

8:30 Agency Updates (CDC/CCID/NCIRD, CMS, DOD, DVA, 

FDA, HRSA, IHS, NIH, NVPO); NVAC (Dr. Gus Birkhead) 

Information 

8:45 Anthrax Vaccine

• Anthrax Vaccine Workgroup Activities 

• Draft recommendations for the pre-event use of 

anthrax vaccine in first responders 

Information 

Discussion 

Dr. Dale Morse (ACIP, WG Chair) 

Dr Jennifer Wright 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DBD) 

9:30 Update: Measles Outbreaks, United States - 2008 Information 

Discussion 

Ms. Amy Parker 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/DVD) 

9:40 Break

10:10 Vaccine Safety 

• Update: Immunization Safety Office, CDC 

• Update: CDC’s Immunization Office Scientific 

Agenda 

• Rapid Cycle Analysis in the Vaccine Safety Datalink 

for adverse events after Tdap vaccination 

• Update on CDC Vaccine Safety Activities 

 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Discussion 

Information 

Discussion 

Dr. John Iskander (CDC/OCSO/ISO) 

Dr. Karen Broder (CDC/OCSO/ISO) 

Dr. James Nordin (HealthPartners 

Research Foundation, 

Minneapolis, Minnesota) 

Dr. Tanja Popovic (Chief Science 

Officer, CDC)

10:45 Rabies Vaccines and Biologicals Information 

Discussion 

Dr. Charles Rupprecht 

(CDC/CCID/NCZVED/DVRD) 

11:15 Vaccine Supply Information 

Discussion 

Dr. Greg Wallace 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/ISD) 

11:45 Influenza

• Update on influenza surveillance 

• Update on antiviral resistance among Influenza A 

H1N1 viruses 

• Influenza vaccines workgroup report 

• Interim vaccine effectiveness estimate, 2007-2008 

season 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Information 

Dr. Anthony Fiore 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/ID) 

Dr. Anthony Fiore 

Dr. Anthony Fiore 

Dr. David Shay 

(CDC/CCID/NCIRD/ID) 

12:35 Public Comment 

12:50 Adjourn 
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Acronyms 

ACIP Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices 

CCID Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases 

CDC Centers for Disease Control & Prevention 

CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 

DBD Division of Bacterial Diseases [of NCIRD] 

DOD Department of Defense 

DSTDP Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Prevention [of NCHHSTP] 

DVA Department of Veterans Affairs 

DVBID Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases 

DVD Division of Viral Diseases [of NCIRD] 

DVH Division of Viral Hepatitis [of NCHHSTP] 

DVRD Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases 

FDA Food and Drug Administration 

HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration 

ID Influenza Division [of NCIRD] 

IHS Indian Health Service 

ISD Immunization Services Division [of NCIRD] 

ISO Immunization Safety Office (of CDC/OD/Office of the Chief Science Officer) 

NCHHSTP National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention [of CDC/CCID] 

NCIRD CDC National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases [of CDC/CCID] 

NCPDCID National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases 

NCZVED National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases [of CDC/CCID] 

NIH National Institutes of Health 

NVAC National Vaccine Advisory Committee 

NVPO National Vaccine Program Office 

OCSO Office of the Chief Science Officer 

OD 

WG 

Office of the Director [of CDC] 

Workgroup 

This document can be found on the CDC website at:

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/downloads/agenda-jun08.pdf