Vaccine Initiative
At the Vaccine Initiative, we know that vaccines save lives.
The Vaccine Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital is focused on protecting children’s lives through vaccination and ultimately controlling infectious diseases among Texas Children’s Hospital patients, employees, and the community, locally and globally. Our mission is to unite vaccine experts and stakeholders to advance vaccine research and development, education, advocacy, and delivery. Our purpose is to control infectious diseases through promoting access to vaccination and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases everywhere.
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.
Latest articles
Dr. Peter Hotez Selected as the 2024 John P. McGovern Science and Society Award from Sigma Xi, Th...
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.
Vaccine Research
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Resources
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Vaccine-Preventable Disease: The Forgotten Story
Read the stories of families impacted by vaccine-preventable diseases. Their stories demonstrate the true cost in human suffering of not vaccinating. The 2025 updated edition includes new stories of families impacted by RSV, measles and HPV.
