Expert Insights and Commentary


Friday Flu Shot: Healthcare Workers Unite to Fight

I have always admired people who work in the field of healthcare.  Not just because of the knowledge that they have acquired and use to help others, but for reasons...


HPV Vaccine: What’s Good For the Goose Is Good For the Gander

There has certainly been a great deal of media coverage regarding yesterday’s vote from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in...


Hope for the Future in Fight Against Malaria

I am elated to hear about a great hope for the future in the fight against malaria. I just read several articles, including Elizabeth Weise’s article in the USA TODAY that announced “Malaria...


The CDC and Contagion Continued

Last month, in a post entitled The Villian is a Virus, I wrote about an event I attended in which a special panel of experts from the Centers for Disease...


Adjusting Attitudes About The Vaccination Schedule

On Monday morning, many health reporters and news stations covered the release of a survey published in Pediatrics that addressed “Alternative Vaccination Schedule Preferences Among Parents of Young Children.”   The...


The Villian is a Virus

If you’ve seen the movie Contagion, the first thing you probably asked yourself was, “Is it possible? Could this really happen?” It’s likely that you then began to consider all the things you had touched, and...


Doctors Take a Stand for Immunizations

Research has indicated that when it comes to immunization information, parents put a lot of trust in what their doctor has to say.  Certainly immunization recommendations are made by...


Thoughts from a Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist

What better way to spend the day than by preventing devastating disease? This week, we would like to introduce another distinguished member of Every Child By Two’s Scientific Advisory...


Laughter is the Best Medicine – Take Two

This week, I have had the pleasure to interview several immunization experts that will be volunteering their time to serve on the Every Child By Two Scientific Advisory Board. ...


The Nurse’s Role in Immunization Services

To begin our introductions of the Every Child By Two Scientific Advisory Board, I had the pleasure of interviewing one of our distinguished members Mary Beth Koslap-Petraco, DNP, PNP-BC,...