Vaccines are among the most powerful public health advancements and are critical for protecting health and advancing equity—having saved more lives than any other medical intervention in history.

Clinician involvement important in pediatric influenza vaccinations. After sharp declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination rates among children are rising but vaccine hesitancy continues ...

Vaccination programs have saved 154 million lives over 50 years, significantly reducing infant mortality and improving survival rates across generations. Vaccines have eradicated smallpox, reduced ...

Policymakers can address the decline in routine childhood vaccination rates in the United States by improving access and boosting confidence in childhood vaccines, and by making vaccination the ...

Did you know that vaccines are one of the most cost-effective health tools ever invented? Or that immunization is one of humanity’s greatest achievements? It’s pretty impressive that something as ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Diseases such as chickenpox and measles may be more than hazy memories from childhood. The current measles outbreak, for instance, shows little sign of abating. Chickenpox can resurface many years ...

Ashley M. Fox, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York. Yongjin Choi ([email protected]), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Leesa Lin ...