Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to install seven new advisers to the country’s leading vaccine panel, including several who have been skeptical of their use.

The vaccine skeptic department chief is seeking to replace purged committee members on the U.S. body that decides who should get which vaccines and when.

Ahead of a high-stakes meeting on Sept. 18, during which the panel may vote to remove some childhood shots from the schedule, The New York Times and Dr. Jeremy Faust’s “Inside Medicine” Substack have revealed the candidates.

They include an emergency physician, a pediatric neurologist, a pediatric cardiologist, a transplant surgeon, an epidemiologist, an OB-GYN, and a pharmacist.

Kennedy fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (

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