Expert Insights and Commentary

Vaccinate Your Family’s Statement on the September 2025 ACIP Meeting

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)–a decades-old federal advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)–serves to provide expert advice...


Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism

VYF Response to White House Announcement on Autism  The science is clear: vaccines do not cause autism. This fact is supported by decades of...


VYF’s Public Comment to VRBPAC – May 2025

Public engagement and input are vital to the vaccine regulatory process in the United States. Each time the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory...


VYF’s Public Comment to ACIP – April 2025

Public engagement and input are vital to the vaccine regulatory process in the United States. Each time the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (the...


An Open Letter to American Parents & Families

Letter also available in Spanish, below. We write to you today from Vaccinate Your Family, not as an institution, but as a team made...


The Truth About Autism and Vaccines

Misinformation has a way of sticking around—even when science disproves it. More than two decades after the false claim linking vaccines and autism was...


Art Caplan: How a zealot’s word led us astray on autism

By Amy Pisani I encourage everyone to check out  the msnbc.com article by Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the...


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...


Once a Childhood Rite of Passage, Chickenpox is Vaccine Preventable

Most adults recall their experiences with chickenpox with great detail.  I remember that I was visiting my grandparents in Florida and they had planned...


Responsible Nurses, and Then There’s This

Recently a friend and nurse, who I adore, shared a video with me.  Now I know my friend to be a very diligent nurse...