Parents PACK Newsletter

Parents PACK Newsletter

Parents PACK is a monthly e-newsletter for anyone who wants information about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases. Each issue provides timely vaccine information, a feature article, vaccine questions and answers, information about immunizations around the world and a trivia question.

Current issue of Parents PACK

Check out the September 2025 issue: 

Feature Article

New Video and Podcast Series — Get Info and a Sneak Peek

Read the article.

Feature Video

Cutting through the Confusion on COVID-19 Vaccination of Young Children in Fall 2025

Watch the video.

News & Notes

  • Teens and vaccines: Highlights from the most recent data
  • Decoding the language around science
  • How has your neighborhood fared in the cuts to scientific funding? 

Explore each topic.

"Just the Vax" Trivia Corner

What virus can occur in both humans and chimpanzees?

Find out.

Past issues of Parents PACK newsletter

Read 2025 issues online

  • September | PDF
    New video and podcast series — Get info and a sneak peek
  • August | PDF
    What’s your best memory?
  • July | PDF
    9,000 Reasons for routine childhood hepatitis B vaccination
  • June | PDF
    What we know and how we feel: Can you recognize the difference? Try it!
  • May | PDF
    Is Moderna making another bivalent COVID-19 vaccine?
  • April | PDF
    Have you wondered? Vaccine schedule edition
  • March | PDF
    4 vaccine considerations for those with chronic medical conditions, including disabilities
  • February | PDF
    Making vaccine decisions during pregnancy: What to know
  • January | PDF
    Getting accurate information in an age of misinformation

Read 2024 issues online

  • November | PDF
    Going to the source: Finding out more about a message that includes science
  • October | PDF
    What’s in vaccines and why?
  • June | PDF
    Empty chairs at dinner tables
  • May | PDF
    Do vaccines cause chronic diseases?
  • April | PDF
    Are mRNA vaccines a type of gene therapy?

For other 2024 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Read 2023 issues online

  • September | PDF
    A new vaccine … and it’s for adults! Find out more about RSV and the vaccine.
  • June | PDF
    COVID-19 vaccine: What’s in the vial?
  • April | PDF
    How many trivia questions about vaccine ingredients can you answer?
  • March | PDF
    Does my child benefit from a COVID-19 vaccine?

For other 2023 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Read 2022 issues online

  • November | PDF
    Flu vaccine: What’s in the vial?
  • May | PDF
    No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part III
  • April | PDF
    No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part II
  • March | PDF
    No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part I

For other 2022 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Read 2021 issues online

For other 2021 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Online archive