“I had refused to commit to approving vaccine recommendations without evidence [or] fire career officials without cause,” she told senators. He asked her to preapprove, without seeing any evidence, vaccine recommendations from a revamped CDC vaccine advisory panel that Kennedy had filled with antivaccination-leaning members. Public health groups, including the American Public Health Association and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, have called for Kennedy to resign. This is totally unacceptable,” says Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. Monarez’s testimony came one day before the CDC’s remade vaccine advisory panel was set to meet to vote on U.S. vaccine recommendations.