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SUMMARY:Big changes to the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule: What you need to know
DESCRIPTION:This week\, the CDC changed the agency’s recommended childhood immunization schedule to nearly match that of Denmark\, a country that bears little similarity to the U.S. in population\, health care system\, and public health approach. The move shifts six vaccines from “recommended” to “shared clinical decision-making.” \n\n\n\nHosted by Tara Haelle and offered in conjunction with the Expert Vaccine Analysis Team (E-VAT)\, this webinar will give you access to quotable experts on vaccine law\, the history of the childhood immunization schedule\, and the science supporting the longtime CDC schedule to help journalists report on this significant change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nTara Haelle\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Infectious Diseases\, Medical StudiesTara Haelle is AHCJ’s health beat leader for infectious diseases and medical studies. She’s an independent science/health journalist\, author\, speaker\, and photographer. Her work has appeared in the National Geographic\, Scientific American\, Texas Monthly\, Science News\, Medscape/WebMD\, The New York Times\, Wired\, and O Magazine\, among others.  \n\n\n\nShe specializes in public health and medical research\, particularly vaccines\, infectious disease\, maternal and pediatric health\, mental health\, healthcare disparities\, and misinformation. She also covers medical research conferences and edits Long COVID Connection on Medium. Haelle earned a master’s in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin\, and her images have appeared in Texas Monthly\, NPR\, the\, Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse L. Goodman\, M.D.\, MPH\n\n\n\nDirector\, Georgetown COMPASSAttending physician\, Georgetown UniversityJesse L. Goodman\, M.D.\, MPH is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases and an attending physician at Georgetown University and the previous chief of infectious diseases at the University of Minnesota. From 2003-09\, Goodman served as director of the federal Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)\, regulating vaccines\, blood and cell and gene therapies\, and then as Chief Scientist of the US FDA until 2014\, serving in US leadership for numerous public health responses. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has served on numerous WHO\, CDC\, NIH\, NAM and other advisory committees and previously served as a member of GlaxoSmithKline’s board\, chairing its science committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn D. Gräbenstein\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nPresident\, Vaccine DynamicsRetired director\, U.S. Dept. of Defense Vaccine Military AgencyJohn D. Gräbenstein\, Ph.D.\, is a global vaccinologist\, pharmacist\, and public-health leader. He served 27 years in the U.S. Army Medical Department and\, as a colonel\, directed Department of Defense’s Military Vaccine Agency. Gräbenstein served for 13 years as Global Executive Director of Medical Affairs for Merck Vaccines. He operates Vaccine Dynamics\, a consulting service on vaccinology and has no conflicts of interest. He is a Member of he National Academy of Medicine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSean O’Leary\, M.D.\, MPH\n\n\n\nProfessor of pediatrics and infectious diseases\, University of Colorado Denver AnschutzDirector\, Colorado Pediatric Practice-Based Research NetworkSean T. O’Leary\, M.D.\, MPH\, is a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. He is also an investigator at Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) and director of the Colorado Children’s Outcomes Network (COCONet)\, a pediatric practice-based research network. \n\n\n\nHis research focuses on prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases through understanding clinical\, attitudinal\, and infrastructural barriers to vaccination\, and developing and testing interventions to address those barriers. O’Leary is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on School Health\, serves as chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases\, and served for many years as AAP liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)\, serving on many ACIP work groups. He also serves as co-chair of the Policy Committee for Immunize Colorado and has been a speaker at the NFID Clinical Vaccinology Course since 2015. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDorit Rubinstein Reiss\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nProfessor of law & James Edgar Hervey ’50 Chair of Litigation\, UC San FranciscoDorit Rubinstein Reiss\, Ph.D.\, is a professor of law and the James Edgar Hervey ’50 Chair of Litigation at UC Law in San Francisco. Now a nationally recognized expert on vaccine law\, Reiss received her undergraduate degree in law and political science from the Faculty of Law in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and her PhD from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at the University of California Berkeley. Her current research and activities focus on legal and policy issues related to vaccines. She writes about vaccines mandates\, policy responses to non-vaccinating\, tort issues and administrative issues related to vaccines\, and the anti-vaccine movement.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/big-changes-to-the-cdcs-childhood-vaccine-schedule-what-you-need-to-know/
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SUMMARY:A conversation on 'The Cure for Everything': Where American public health is and where it's headed
DESCRIPTION:For the first time in a century\, American life expectancy is declining\, an unprecedented trend for a wealthy nation and one driven largely by preventable causes of early death. The foundations of public health reforms — sanitation\, clean water\, safe housing\, pollution control\, workplace safety\, and more — doubled America’s life expectancy between the mid-1800s and today. \n\n\n\nBut the nation has now spent a century shifting money and attention away from public health and toward clinical medicine. The pandemic exposed the cost of that shift\, including widening health inequities\, inadequate emergency response coordination\, and erosion of public trust.  \n\n\n\nIn her book “The Cure for Everything: The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving\,” Michelle Williams tells the story of how the U.S. overcame a history of infectious disease\, poisonous environments\, and early death and how it’s still possible to rebalance clinical medicine and public health to prevent hundreds of thousands of annual avoidable premature deaths and improve all Americans’ quality of life. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Williams will talk about key lessons from her book that could inspire lines of investigation for journalists. Linda Marsa\, a health journalist who helped Williams with the book\, will briefly address how that collaboration worked and how journalists can mine the book for story ideas in their communities.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nTara Haelle\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Infectious Diseases\, Medical StudiesTara Haelle is AHCJ’s health beat leader for infectious diseases and medical studies. She’s an independent science/health journalist\, author\, speaker\, and photographer. Her work has appeared in the National Geographic\, Scientific American\, Texas Monthly\, Science News\, Medscape/WebMD\, The New York Times\, Wired\, and O Magazine\, among others. She specializes in public health and medical research\, particularly vaccines\, infectious disease\, maternal and pediatric health\, mental health\, healthcare disparities\, and misinformation. She also covers medical research conferences and edits Long COVID Connection on Medium. Haelle earned a master’s in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin\, and her images have appeared in Texas Monthly\, NPR\, the\, Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle A. Williams\, ScD\n\n\n\nProfessor of epidemiology and population health\, Stanford University School of Medicine Michelle A. Williams\, ScD\, is a professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University School of Medicine and former Dean of the Faculty at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health\, where she also served as the Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development and currently holds an adjunct professorship. An internationally renowned epidemiologist and award-winning educator\, Dr. Williams is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Epidemiological Society. She has authored more than 550 peer-reviewed research articles and is recognized as a leading voice in public health science and global health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLinda Marsa\n\n\n\nInvestigative journalist and authorContributing editor\, DiscoverLinda Marsa is a former Los Angeles Times reporter and a Discover contributing editor who covers medicine\, health\, and the environment. Her latest book\, which she wrote with Dr. Michelle Williams\, “The Cure for Everything: The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving\,” will be published in February 2026. Her work has been anthologized in “Best American Science Writing\,” and she has previously authored two books\, most recently: “Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Harm Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves.”
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/a-conversation-on-the-cure-for-everything-where-american-public-health-is-and-where-its-headed/
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