The US Department of Health and Human Services said it is re-establishing the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, a panel of US health officials tasked with making recommendations on vaccine development, distribution and monitoring.

The task force, which will be helmed by US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, will also include the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, according to HHS Director of Communications Andrew Nixon. Additional members will be announced in the future, he said.

The announcement of the task force comes after a lawsuit from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine advocacy group formerly led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The group sued K

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