The history of the United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

Beyond vertical and horizontal programs: a diagonal approach to building national immunization programs through measles elimination

“…For example, in the United States, measles elimination goals played a key role in the development of the National Immunization Program [10,11]. First licensed in the United States in 1963, measles vaccines were first provided through a new Federal Immunization Program in 1965, called the 317 program, the first new vaccine introduced since the program began.…”

Interwoven support: An historical survey of US federal programs enabling immunization

“…However, vaccination services coverage for ACIPrecommended vaccines has been greatly expanded for adults in both Medicaid and private insurance plan settings under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but not under Medicare Part D. [110]. This law requires coverage of all ACIP-recommended pediatric and adult vaccines with no cost-sharing requirements ("first-dollar coverage") for commercial health plans, including previously exempted Employee Retirement Income Security Act plans (ERISA) [121]. Certain grandfathered commercial insurance plans were exempted from PPACA requirements.…”

“…An advisory committee on influenza met in 1958 [84], with other committees for poliovirus vaccines convening in 1962 and 1964 and for measles in 1963 [109,[128][129][130]. Seeing the value of these deliberative forums and resultant advice, the PHS Surgeon General chartered the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in 1964, initially with 8 members (now 15) [109][110][111]121,[131][132][133][134][135][136]. The primary role of the prolific and respected ACIP is to advise DHHS on use of vaccines for the civilian population.…”

Lessons Learned From Making and Implementing Vaccine Recommendations in the U.S.

“…Concurrently, many improvements have been made to the ACIP process. 3,4 The objective of this paper is to highlight lessons learned when ACIP-recommended vaccines were added to these schedules and were implemented.…”