AAI committees carry out a variety of activities that provide guidance and support for a wide range of initiatives including planning the AAI Annual Meeting; AAI training and career development programs; selection and presentation of a wide range of professional achievement and career development Awards, including the AAI Public Service Award; public education and public affairs/federal advocacy activities; recruiting new members and assessing the needs of existing members, including women and underrepresented scientists; and oversight of policies pertinent to AAI publications The Journal of Immunology and ImmunoHorizons.
Members may volunteer for appointment to one or more of AAI’s standing and ad-hoc committees listed below, each linked to information about the committee’s purpose, roles, composition, term of service, and current roster.
Standing Committees
Awards
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Awards Committee is dedicated to recognizing outstanding achievement by and the professional promise of investigators in the immunology field.
Clinical Immunology Committee
- The AAI Clinical Immunology Committee is dedicated to promoting research in the field of clinical immunology and addressing issues important to AAI member physician-scientists.
Committee on
Public Affairs
Public Affairs
- The AAI Committee on Public Affairs is dedicated to identifying, analyzing, and, as appropriate, responding to policy, legislative, and regulatory initiatives that are of interest to immunologists or to biomedical researchers in general.
Committee on the Status
of Women
of Women
- The Committee on the Status of Women is dedicated to generating and developing programs that assure equal treatment of all professional immunologists on the basis of merit, including by enhancing career opportunities that advance the involvement and recognition of women immunologists in the scientific community.
Education
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Education Committee is dedicated to promoting science education including through planning and coordinating educational activities, programs, and resources of AAI and participating on behalf of members and the field in outreach activities and coalitions that foster education in the life sciences.
Finance
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Finance Committee is dedicated to recommending financial policies, strategies, and budgets that support the mission, values, and strategic plan of the organization.
Membership
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Membership Committee is dedicated to determining the eligibility of applicants for active membership, considering/proposing changes in the criteria for membership, soliciting membership applications and renewals, analyzing membership composition and representation, and making recommendations concerning the above to Council.
Minority Affairs
Committee
Committee
- The Minority Affairs Committee is dedicated to generating and developing programs that ensure equal treatment of all professional immunologists on the basis of merit, including through activities that enhance opportunities for the scientific and career development of underrepresented scientists (i.e., those from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related research careers nationally).
Program
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Program Committee is dedicated to planning and implementing the scientific program presented at each annual meeting of the AAI; subject to approval by Council, this includes selection of topics and speakers for the meeting that represent the entire field of immunology and include scientists at a variety of career stages.
Publications
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Publications Committee is dedicated to maintaining the high quality of AAI journals as a trusted source of research findings that support and enhance advances in the field, subject to the general supervision of Council.
Veterinary Immunology
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee is dedicated to addressing issues relating to experimental and domestic animals and to coordinating activities with other organizations whose goals relate to veterinary immunology.
Ad-Hoc Committees
Grant Review for Immunologists Program Committee
- The AAI Grant Review for Immunologists Program (GRIP) Committee oversees the GRIP’s referral resource to match early career principal investigators (PIs) with established PIs who have experienced significant success in winning research grants, offering new PIs guidance in preparing grant proposals as they embark on their independent research careers in immunology.
Public Communications Committee
- The Public Communications Committee is dedicated to assisting AAI with its public awareness initiative to educate the public about the science of the immune system. The committee creates, reviews, and offers guidance on content shared through multiple communications channels, including a consumer website, paid advertising, earned media, and social media.