The news: Public health and policy experts have teamed up to create the “Vaccine Integrity Project,” an initiative to safeguard vaccine use and evidence-based science on immunizations.

The project was launched by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and will form a committee of eight experts to make recommendations for how vaccine use can stay “free from external influence” while protecting the public against vaccine-preventable diseases.

Zooming out: The project is in direct response to vaccine skepticism coming from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which has concerned the medical community. Notable examples include Kennedy saying it’s a personal decision to get the MMR vaccine despite an ongoing measles outbreak and funding a study to investigate the debunked link between childhood immunizations and autism.