"Paul Offit, a pediatrician and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, can no longer participate in the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee."
"Paul Offit, a pediatrician who has sparred with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over childhood vaccination, has been blocked from participating in a vaccine advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration.
An HHS spokesman said Offit was among a dozen members of eight FDA advisory panels who were notified they can no longer participate because their terms as special government employees expired. The spokesman, who declined to be named, declined to identify the other members or committees.
Offit’s term on the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which evaluates vaccine safety and effectiveness data to advise whether they should be approved, was originally slated to end in January 2025. He said an FDA official asked him to remain on the panel, and Offit agreed to serve another two years. But on Aug. 28, Offit received an email thanking him for his service and was given no reason for why his extension was not approved. His name has since been removed from the committee’s online roster; no other names were removed."
Rachel Roubein reports for the Washington Post September 2, 2025.
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