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Immunization Alliance

{{Short description|American vaccine advocacy consortium}}

The Immunization Alliance is an American vaccine advocacy consortium, assembled under the auspices of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in May 2008. The Immunization Alliance has called for a governmental information campaign, ongoing research into vaccine safety and efficacy, balanced media coverage, and restoration of confidence among parents due to vaccine hesitancy and the related controversies in autism.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

Formation

Citing the largest measles outbreak in the United States since 1966 (130 cases in fifteen states), Paul Offit, a member of the Alliance, asserted that this re-emergence of a common childhood disease was a warning about the dangers of "what can happen when parents are misinformed about vaccine safety.{{cite web|title=Antivaccine Movement: History, Current Effects on Immunization|url=http://www.healio.com/pediatrics/vaccine-preventable-diseases/news/online/%7B362db6d7-634c-4422-ba39-9155e2935d90%7D/antivaccine-movement-history-current-effects-on-immunization|work=Healio.com|publisher=SLACK Inc.|accessdate=11 April 2013|date=28 July 2010}} "We do not want to become a nation of people who are vulnerable to diseases that are deadly or that can have serious complications, especially if those diseases can be prevented," said Renee Jenkins, president of the AAP.{{cite press release

|title = New Immunization Alliance Issues National Call To Action

|date = 18 September 2008

|publisher = American Academy of Pediatrics

|location = Chicago

|url = http://www2.aap.org/advocacy/releases/sept08Immunizationalliance.htm

|accessdate = 11 April 2013

|archivedate = 27 September 2011

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927110213/http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/sept08Immunizationalliance.htm

|url-status = dead

}}

The Immunization Alliance's debut was announced in the July 2008 issue of Pediatrics (published by the AAP), which also detailed its plans for improving vaccine schedule adherence and combating declining immunization rates.{{cn|date=March 2022}} Gina Ley Steiner, Director of Public Information for the AAP at the time, was responsible for building this non-profit coalition.

Stated goals

The Immunization Alliance's stated goals include increasing public education about vaccines by both public health organizations and individual physicians, and increasing federal funding and media coverage surrounding the science of vaccine safety.{{cite news |last1=Fiore |first1=Kristina |title=Immunization Alliance Seeks to Strengthen Public Confidence in Vaccines |url=https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/vaccines/10977 |accessdate=January 14, 2020 |work=MedPage Today |date=September 19, 2008}}

Member organizations

Over twenty organizations form the Immunization Alliance, including:{{cn|date=June 2023}}

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080929054734/http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/sept08Immunizationalliance.htm AAP.org] - "New Immunization Alliance Issues National Call to Action', American Academy of Pediatrics (Sept. 18, 2008)

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Category:2008 establishments in the United States

Category:Public health organizations

Category:Vaccination-related organizations based in the United States

Category:Health and disability rights organizations in the United States

Category:Organizations established in 2008