For the third time since March 2025, HHS has postponed a planned meeting for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which provides clinical preventive health recommendations to Congress every year.
The USPSTF, which is a volunteer panel of national experts that was launched in 1984, usually meets three times a year. The group did not meet in July or in November of 2025, with the latter tied to a government shutdown. Its most recent report to Congress was shared in November 2024, which said the USPSTF has created nearly 300 national recommendations in the last 40 years.
In July, the American Medical Association voiced concerns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who replaced all members of a federal vaccine committee in June — reportedly planned to remove all panelists on the USPSTF. No changes have been announced.
An HHS spokesperson confirmed the March 2026 meeting’s postponement to Becker’s, adding that the meeting “will be rescheduled in the coming months.”
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