Policy/Advocacy

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...


VYF’s Public Comment on ACIP – September 2025

Vaccinate Your Family submitted the following public comment to the Federal Register ahead of the September meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...


VYF Offers Free Courses Through the Vaccination Community Learning Program

It’s a trying time in public health, and communicating about vaccines has never been more challenging OR more important. To better equip each and...


Vax Motivators: A WWII Survivor Shares Her Story

Vaccinate Your Family’s Communications Intern, Allison Howells, interviewed her grandmother, Beth, who remembers life before most vaccines. Beth was born in Wales during World...


Whooping cough is on the rise – here’s one mom’s story

Whooping cough is currently surging across the U.S. According to the CDC, whooping cough cases in 2024 are five times greater than in 2023...


Celebrating 30 Years of Saving Lives through the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC)

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, a perfect time to reflect on the strides we’ve made in protecting our children’s health and to celebrate...


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...


Callie Cares Means We Will Never Forget

Callie was considered a miracle baby. It took Katie and Craig Van Tornhout five years and four miscarriages before they finally welcomed their precious daughter Callie into their lives. However,...


Vaccine Skeptics Lash Out at CDC Advisory Committee Meeting

By Amy Pisani, MS, Executive Director, Every Child By Two/Vaccinate Your Family Last month the CDC’s Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group...


Ethan Lindenberger Wants to Help Stop the Lies About Vaccines

You may be familiar with Ethan Lindenberger, the eighteen-year-old who got himself vaccinated despite his parents’ anti-vaccine beliefs, and who most recently appeared before...