As at its meeting in January 2000, the membership of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) was:Professor Michael Langman (Acting Chairman), Professor of Medicine, University of BirminghamProfessor Roy Anderson, Professor of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology, University of OxfordDr Robert Aston, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control/Immunisation Co-ordinator, Wigan and Bolton Health AuthorityDr Barbara Bannister, Infectious Disease Physician/Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Coppett's Wood Hospital (Royal Free Hospital)Professor Keith Cartwright, Microbiologist, Director, Gloucester Public Health LaboratoryDr Stephen Conway, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, LeedsMs Gillian Creighton, Nurse, Neighbourhood Manager, Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health AuthorityDr David Goldblatt, Paediatric Immunologist, Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant, Institute of Child HealthDr David Joynson, Medical Microbiologist, Director, Swansea Public Health LaboratoryDr Colin Kennedy, Paediatric Neurologist, Southampton University HospitalDr Karl Nicholson, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Leicester University and Leicester Royal InfirmaryDr Marie Ogilvie, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Medical Virology, Edinburgh University Medical SchoolProfessor Lewis Ritchie, General Practitioner and Professor of General Practice, Aberdeen UniversityDr Richard Smithson, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control/Immunisation Co-ordinator, Western Health and Social Services BoardDr Diana Walford, Director, Public Health Laboratory ServiceDr Chris Bartlett, Director, Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance CentreDr Ian Jones, Director, Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental HealthProfessor George Griffin, Chairman, Medical Research Council Committee on Development...