To represent the voices, insights, and unique perspectives of AAI trainee members among AAI committee volunteers, trainee members are invited to volunteer for appointment to the trainee liaison position on the following AAI committees. Trainee liaisons play a key role in fostering dialogue between established scientists and trainees as they collaborate in fulfilling committee objectives and advancing the AAI mission.
Standing Committees
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
- 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.
Membership
Committee
Committee
- The AAI Membership Committee is dedicated to helping AAI meet the needs of the immunology community, especially its members, by voicing its concerns and making suggestions for changes or additions to current AAI practices, policies, or bylaws
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).
Veterinary Immunology 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
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.