The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is hosting an incredibly significant meeting on September 18 and 19. During this meeting, they will discuss the potential removal of the longstanding hepatitis B birth dose vaccine recommendation. If this happens, it will be the first time in modern history that ACIP uses their platform to blatantly disregard decades worth of scientific evidence in favor of enacting political agendas.
The oral comments and written comment portal are now open to provide valuable insight on the need to maintain the universal hepatitis B birth dose.
We strongly encourage all partners to use our updated template and guide to create and submit comments. The Committee will be discussing several other vaccine recommendations, so it is very important that hepatitis B is well represented.
Here’s how to take action:
Leave a written comment: We have put together templates that you can use to submit written comments.
Please note that all comments must be submitted by 11:59 pm EDT on September 13, 2025.
Provide oral comment using our template:
Register here to request a time slot: https://www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/acip_publiccomment.asp.
Registration closes at 11:59pm EDT on September 13, 2025.
Post your support of the hepatitis B vaccine on social media.
Misinformation about the hepatitis B vaccine and its importance is at an all-time high. Use our social media toolkit to share the facts about the universal birth dose.
Tell Congress that eliminating the hepatitis B birth dose recommendation is unacceptable.
The American Liver Foundation has created an action alert to share the importance of the birth dose with congress. Use their form to reach out to your congress member, and encourage them to support the birth dose.
After the June ACIP discussion on hepatitis B and several media conversations with the ACIP Chair and Secretary Kennedy, it is highly likely that the Committee will remove the universal hepatitis B birth dose recommendation – a recommendation that has protected thousands of children from liver cancer for over 30 years. Failure by the Committee to maintain universal hepatitis B birth dose vaccination is a missed opportunity to stem the tide of spikes in hepatitis B infections across the country and will be detrimental to the elimination of viral hepatitis inequities in the United States.
Please remember that every very voice counts. For questions or more information, please reach out to Michaela.Jackson@hepb.org.