The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has reinstated the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, a panel originally disbanded in 1998, aiming to improve vaccine safety and oversight for American children. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will helm the task force alongside key figures from FDA and CDC. The move follows controversies under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose vaccine policies and advisory panel restructurings have sparked lawsuits and congressional scrutiny. The reinstated task force will deliver its first report to Congress in two years.