AND you thought that AHPPC was a mouthful.
Now in common parlance after more than two years of mentions in the nightly news, the acronym stands for the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, and is of course the body comprising the Chief Health Officers of all Australian jurisdictions who have provided government advice during the pandemic.
We also have the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation or ATAGI - a bit more complicated than the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sensibly simply abbreviated as CDC.
That's so easy compared to the corresponding body in Egypt, where the country's COVID-19 response has been overseen by the Supreme Committee for the Management of the Epidemiology and Health Pandemic Crisis - or SCMEHPC.
Despite that effort, Australia probably still maintains its world leadership in complicated health committee names, with the Health Department continuing to oversee the ACHERCPD - or to the uninitiated, the Advisory Committee on the Health Emergency Response to Coronavirus for People with Disability of course!
Our favourites are the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, or JCVI, and even better, the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, or SAGE, an acronym that for once actually reflects the committee's purpose.
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