National Vaccine Program Office

Important meetings on vaccines and vaccines safety, including the H1N1 vaccine, Sept 15-16 and 17-18

Friday, September 11th, 2009 | Vaccines and Vaccine Injuries | No Comments

I am heading out early Sunday morning for a week of meetings in DC.  The National Vaccine Advisory Commission (NVAC) meeting will be Sept 15-16 in Washington, DC.  Pre-registration for those who wish to attend in person closed on Thursday because the conference room was filled to capacity.  Up to 500 participants are expect by phone.  Because of the unusually high interest (due mostly to the H1N1 vaccine) this meeting will also be webcast.  The meeting agenda and webinar information can be found on the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) website.

The quarterly meeting of the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) will be held Sept 17-18 in Rockville, MD.  Meeting information, including the agenda and call-in info, is supposed to be available at the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VCIP) website, although at last check nothing had been posted.

This will be my last meeting as a consumer representative on the ACCV and my first meeting a voting member and consumer representative for NVAC.  Consequently, I will be in DC all week.  Although I have good intentions of writing on rubysoup, I know the reality is that I won’t have the time.  These trips are jammed pack with little to no downtime, so you probably won’t hear from me until the week of Sept. 20.

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