Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccine expert who has often criticized health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been blocked from serving on a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine advisory panel.

According to a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, Offit was among several FDA advisory committee members whose Special Government Employee (SGE) terms expired, making them ineligible to participate.

The spokesman declined to elaborate on who those other members are, and whether their status would be renewed.

Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said he had been asked by the FDA to extend his term to 2027, but after filling out the paperwork, including a financial disclosure form, they were held up for mon

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