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(Reuters) -A panel of immunization experts that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will convene in April after a previous meeting was postponed, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said in an email on Thursday.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been set to meet in February, but the meeting was postponed a week after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services.
HHS said the meeting was delayed to accommodate public comment. The agency's email said ACIP workgroups have continued to meet and will present at the rescheduled April 15-16 meeting.
The spokesman said the meeting will include a measles update and the full agenda will be posted at a later date.
The ACIP holds three regular meetings each year to review scientific data and vote on vaccine recommendations to the CDC director.
A draft agenda for the meeting that was originally set to begin on February 26 showed it would review several vaccines, including GSK's meningococcal vaccine and AstraZeneca's flu shot.
The meeting was expected to take several votes, including one on how a key government vaccine distribution program should handle influenza inoculations.
(Reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco and Sneha S K in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese and Leslie Adler)
