Vaccine Initiative
Vaccines save lives
The Texas Children’s Vaccine Initiative advances vaccine research and development, education, advocacy, and delivery. By protecting children’s lives through vaccination both locally and globally, our efforts control infectious diseases and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases everywhere.
Education
The Vaccine Initiative at Texas Children's Hospital provides up-to-date and evidence-based information about vaccines. Learn more about our educational materials.
Programs and Services
Vaccines to prevent infectious diseases are among medicine’s most significant advances, wiping out or drastically reducing many dangerous illnesses from the face of the earth. But with progress comes complacency. Collectively, many have lost the memory of smallpox, meningitis, polio and other diseases, with some individuals considering themselves, their children and grandchildren safe, with or without vaccines.
Research
The Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development (TCH-CVD) develops new pediatric and adolescent vaccines for global health. Its low cost and patent-free COVID vaccine technology was scaled and produced for India (Corbevax) and Indonesia (IndoVac) immunizing 75 million adolescents in India, and more than 100 million people overall. This provided proof of concept that vaccines can be developed at a children’s hospital and bypass big pharma, just as Albert Sabin did in the late 1950s for the oral polio vaccine. In addition, the portfolio of the TCH-CVD includes new vaccines for parasitic infections, including vaccines for hookworm anemia, schistosomiasis, tick-borne illness, and Chagas’ disease, as well as newer mRNA vaccines for cancer and related conditions.
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