Personal Stories


USA Today Highlights Vaccines in Two Recent Columns

By Amy Pisani USA Today’s Liz Szabo covered vaccines in two recent articles that you don’t want to miss.  The December 23rd article covered the broad issue of celebrities...


A Mom Explains Why She's Still A Flu Shot Fan

By Dena Penner Dena Wichansky Penner is a health education and communications consultant to non-profit maternal and child health organizations, including Every Child By Two.  She is the former...


Remembering Ryan

 By Frankie Milley, Meningitis Angels As we end the year and the new year approaches, I find myself walking through a memorial garden planted in memory of Ryan, my...


SELF Magazine Features Vaccinate Your Baby Spokesperson Amanda Peet

"This is about children's health. This is about the future of our children's health. It's about what happens when you become complacent and you're not vigilant as a community....


A Mother's Experience in Getting her Kids the H1N1 Vaccine

Guest Blog post by Laura E. Scott, Executive Director of Families Fighting Flu After almost daily calls for the past two months to our pediatrician’s office, the Virginia Department...


Protecting My Family From Flu

By Amy Pisani This past Friday night my children were both finally vaccinated against H1N1 at a vaccination clinic at our town hall.  It’s hard to express the relief...


Protecting the Unprotected

By Brendalee Flint When my daughter was just 15 months old, she contracted Haemophilus Influenzae type B (Hib).  She was fully vaccinated, ate well and got exposed to a...


Journalist’s Vaccine Article Draws Hate Mail

By Amy Pisani Hi Everyone.  Amy Wallace, who wrote the excellent cover story for the November issue of Wired Magazine on the anti-vaccine movement has just been interviewed on...


We Are All Living Proof

By Amy Pisani Last night I was glued to my computer watching the live webcast of the Gates Foundation’s Living Proof Project:  U.S. Investments in Global Health are Working. ...


A Mother’s Trials and Tribulations With Flu

By Amy Pisani I just read a good friend’s personal story  on how she practically knocked over an old lady in a walker (of course I exaggerate) to get into...