The CDC has terminated an advisory committee responsible for issuing federal guidance on the prevention and control of health care-associated infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance, HHS confirmed to Healio.
The decision to disband the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) was based on President Trump’s executive order to reduce the federal workforce, HHS communications director Andrew Nixon told Healio in an email Wednesday.
The executive order instructed advisors to identify “unnecessary government entities and federal advisory committees