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Past encounters with the flu shape vaccine response
Immune history influences vaccine effectiveness, interacting with other potential problems arising from the manufacturing process For immediate release: February 20, 2018 New research on why the influenza vaccine was only modestly effective in recent years shows that immune…
Getting to a better flu vaccine
Researchers are working on new methods for developing vaccines, including utilizing different animal proteins or a genetically engineered live virus, and are also working to develop a universal flu vaccine.
For world’s poorest, vaccines prevent both deaths and medical impoverishment
For immediate release: February 5, 2018 Boston, MA – Vaccines have enormous impact not just on health, but on keeping people out of poverty, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
Op-ed: A call for products free of toxic chemicals
A group of widely used toxic chemicals linked with several kinds of cancer, high cholesterol, and suppression of vaccine effectiveness in children is now also found in air and water around the globe and in nearly all of…
New drugs, tools, innovations needed to rid world of malaria
New medicines to help counter drug resistance and tools like gene drive technologies to curb parasite transmission are among the innovations needed to rid the world of malaria, according to a new research agenda published as a special…
In Afghanistan, polio vaccination faces threats
Afghanistan is one of three nations in the world (along with Pakistan and Nigeria) where the polio virus continues to be endemic, in part due to inadequate vaccination rates. A new poll of parents and caregivers of young…
Search for a better tuberculosis vaccine underway
Efforts by a team of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers to expedite the discovery of a new and improved tuberculosis vaccine were featured in an August 18, 2017 STAT article. The article highlighted work by…
Improving the efficiency of infant immunization services
A study analyzing the cost structure of routine immunization programs in six countries found that the most efficient programs had the lowest labor costs. The study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, published in the journal…
Increase in pertussis outbreaks linked with vaccine exemptions, waning immunity
July 11, 2017 – A significant jump in the number of pertussis cases in the U.S. may be due to increasing numbers of nonmedical vaccine exemptions as well as waning immunity among those who have been vaccinated, according…
The Minnesota measles outbreak
Health officials in Minnesota are now grappling with that state's largest measles outbreak in several decades. In this week's podcast, we get perspective on the outbreak from childhood vaccine expert Marie McCormick.
