Ask the Experts: Immunizations, vaccinations, vaccines and preventable diseases

Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) answer challenging and timely questions about vaccines and their administration. The following questions and answers (Q&As) have been featured in previous issues of IAC Express, Needle Tips, Vaccinate Adults, and Vaccinate Women. To receive updates to Ask the Experts, visit our online subscribe form.

Ask the Experts as featured in recent publications

IAC EXPRESS

May 2009

April 2009

NEEDLE TIPS

VACCINATE ADULTS

December 2008

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VACCINATE WOMEN

June 2008

Ask the Experts by vaccine


General vaccine questions		Pertussis

Combination vaccines		Pneumococcal conjugate (PCV)

Diphtheria		Pneumococcal polysaccharide (PPSV)

Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)		Polio

Hepatitis A		Rabies

Hepatitis B		Rotavirus

Human papillomavirus (HPV)		Tetanus

Influenza		Varicella (chickenpox)

Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)		Zoster (shingles)

Meningococcal

How to submit a question to Ask the Experts?

You can email your question about vaccines or immunization to IAC at admin@immunize.org. IAC will respond to your email inquiry.

Note: As we receive hundreds of emails each month, we cannot guarantee that we will use your question in the Ask the Experts feature. IAC works with CDC to compile new Ask the Experts Q&As for our publications based on commonly asked questions. Most of the questions are thus a composite of several inquiries.

Who are IAC's experts?

William L. Atkinson, MD, MPH

Dr. Atkinson is a medical epidemiologist at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), CDC.

Andrew T. Kroger, MD, MPH

Dr. Kroger is a medical epidemiologist at NCIRD, CDC.

Joanna Buffington, MD, MPH

Dr. Buffington is a medical epidemiologist with Global Immunizations, NCIRD, CDC. Previously she worked at the Prevention Branch, Division of Viral Hepatitis (DVH), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), CDC.