MEDPAGE TODAY reported: Could an Independent Agency for Vaccine Safety Strengthen Public Trust?

Routinely used vaccines in the U.S. are very safe, but questions about potential adverse events still require thorough, credible investigations. Daniel Salmon, PhD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, argues that an independent approach to investigating vaccine safety signals could help strengthen public trust.

In a recent invited perspective in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Salmon and colleagues proposed establishing a National Vaccine Safety Board modeled on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), bringing together existing data and expertise to conduct rapid, independent investigations.

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