The Immunization Safety Office Scientific Agenda
In response to a 2005 Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation* and to guide the Immunization Safety Office's (ISO's) scientific direction, ISO is developing a
five-year ISO Scientific Agenda
to guide its vaccine safety science in three areas:
- Research
- Surveillance (monitoring)
- Guidance for healthcare providers
How will the ISO Scientific Agenda be used?
The Immunization Safety Office will use the agenda to guide its research
and monitoring activities for the next five years. The agenda will
help ISO monitor the safety of vaccines used in the United States and conduct research to
help ensure that vaccines are as safe as possible.
How is the ISO Scientific Agenda being developed?
During 2007-2008, ISO gathered input at three planned meetings with federal, academic and vaccine manufacturer
scientists to begin
drafting the Scientific Agenda. To continue gathering input, the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) is conducting an external review process. The
HHS external advisors, operating under the oversight of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC),
are looking at the agenda in depth to provide advice on the most important
research that the Immunization Safety Office should focus on within the next five
years.
HHS organized meetings in three cities to hear input from members of the
public about ISO's Scientific Agenda. Meeting dates and locations were:
- December 13, 2008--Birmingham, Alabama
- January 10, 2009--Ashland, Oregon
- January 17, 2009--Indianapolis, Indiana
The National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) issued a Request for Information
in the Federal Register on January 2, 2009 (Vol. 74, No. 1). Written comments
received by the deadline of February 2, 2009 were summarized and provided in
full to the NVAC Vaccine Safety Working Group. The comments submitted are
available at
http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/documents/ASPAPublicCommentsFeb2.pdf.
On March 16, 2009, a group of vaccine safety stakeholders met in
Washington, D.C. to provide additional input to NVAC to help in guiding their
scientific review of the ISO agenda. This Stakeholder Meeting was webcast
and audio conferencing was available.
What are the next steps?
NVAC recommendations will be finalized and forwarded to the Immunization Safety
Office to guide it in structuring its five-year scientific agenda. Additional
information is available at: http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/PublicEngagement.html.
Visit the ISO web page for important vaccine safety information at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety.
Downloads
Draft ISO Scientific Agenda background document in Microsoft® Word format (289KB) or PDF format
(103KB).
Draft recommendations for the ISO Scientific Agenda in
Microsoft® Word format (597KB) or
PDF format (463KB).
Draft recommendations addendum in
Microsoft® Word format (44KB) or
PDF format (40KB).
Reports from 2007 Scientific Agenda Meetings
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