In the famous words, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, our founding father Benjamin Franklin demonstrates his knowledge of principles that would develop the infrastructure of public health preparedness centuries later.
In his blog post about the 2011 MARCE Conference on Legal, Ethical, and Policy Challenges of Vaccination, Earl Stoddard outlined recent milestones and controversies in the vaccination field.
The environment and social acceptance of vaccination is constantly shifting. Recently, however, a number of high profile events have made the landscape even more tumultuous.
We hope you will join MARCE and CHHS for the 2011 MARCE-Public Health Emergency Response Conference. This year, the conference will focus on the Legal, Ethical and Policy Challenges of Vaccination, particularly during public health emergencies and eradication efforts.
CHHS Director Michael Greenberger will give a lecture during the May 9 class of the “Legal Aspects of Mass Immunization and Routine Vaccination" bi-yearly formal course in vaccinology.
By comparison, between 160 million and 165 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine have been made for this year’s season, a number that has been increasing in recent years, according to Earl Stoddard, public health manager at the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security.
By Meaghan McCann CHHS Research Assistant, summer 2010
There is a surprising addition to list of lessons learned from the U.S. response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak: sometimes being over-prepared has its own risks.
"It wouldn't be surprising to see another peak this year," said Marita Mike, health director at the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security. "When you look at flu outbreaks in the past, there were multiple peaks."
