Author: everychildbytwo


It’s Not Too Late To Save Lives

By ECBT Executive Director, Amy Pisani Please Consider Supporting Every Child By Two’s Efforts This Holiday Season Whooping cough (pertussis) and influenza continue to take the lives of too...


Public Health Report Card: How Does Your State Measure Up?

It’s easy to understand why people take public health for granted.  You simply can’t see the diseases that have been prevented, the hospitalizations that have been avoided or the lives...


Making the Case for Meningitis Vaccination

Last month there was a great deal of concern regarding several meningitis outbreaks on college campuses.  The first to really gain attention were the seven cases at Princeton University.  While it is typical for meningitis...


Kick the Flu Out of School

This post was written by Melody Butler, a pediatric RN and mother of four.  As a vocal vaccine advocate, Melody founded Nurses Who Vaccinate and is a Shot@Life Immunization...


It's Easy to Find a Flu Vaccine with HealthMap Vaccine Finder

It’s National Influenza Vaccination Week and  it’s likely that some people haven’t received their flu shots yet. You should know that flu season has officially arrived and some states have already begun...


Victims Katie Couric Neglected To Mention In Her Discussion of HPV

A few weeks ago I wrote about the fact that Katie Couric’s new daytime television show Katie was planning to air a segment about HPV vaccine.  After hearing the proposed line-up for the show...


Fighting the Flu One Text at a Time

This guest post was provided by Text4baby, a service of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.   With 99% of all text messages being read and 90% read within...


Help Support Childhood Vaccinations With #GivingTuesday

Every Child By Two Executive Director, Amy Pisani writes the following letter in consideration of #GivingTuesday.   As Every Child By Two (ECBT) continues our partnership with the #GivingTuesday initiative, we...


Map Diseases in Your Area with HealthMap

This guest post was written by Jane Huston, a program coordinator for HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital and manager of the HealthMap Vaccine Finder, a project that aims to increase adult immunization...


Meningococcal Outbreak Highlights Need for New Vaccine

Earlier this week, news reports started pouring in of a meningococcal outbreak among students at Princeton University.  The number of cases and the lack of any direct connection among the...