Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
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The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is an independent expert advisory committee of the United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care.
JCVI was established in 1963 "To advise the Secretaries of State for Health, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on matters relating to communicable diseases, preventable and potentially preventable through immunisation." The advisory body makes recommendations to the UK government concerning vaccination schedules and vaccine safety.
JCVI chairman is Professor Andrew Pollard of Oxford Vaccine Group in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford.[1]
On 9 September 2021 the JCVI approved the AstraZeneca vaccine and Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be used for booster jabs, to begin immediatley.[2]
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