Vaccine Update for Healthcare Professionals
This is the Vaccine Education Center's (VEC) website for healthcare providers. Here you will find VEC announcements, current and past articles from our Vaccine Update newsletter and information about our upcoming webinars.
VEC Announcements
Find out about our new website evaluation cards and other items that can be ordered online. Check out our newly designed Parents PACK tear pads and order as many free copies as you need. Watch a new video series featuring Dr. Stanley Plotkin, inventor of the rubella vaccine, answering vaccine-related questions.
Vaccine Update Newsletter January 2020
Vaccine Update is our monthly email newsletter that will keep you up to date on current vaccine-related issues.
- News & Views:
Considering intestinal microbiota in practice - In the Journals:
Impact of CA SB277 removing non-medical exemptions - From the Media:
The Washington Post article explores funding of the anti-vaccine movement - On the Bookshelf:
No More Measles: The Truth About Vaccines and Your Health
- Technically Speaking:
CDC releases 2020 version of its Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit - On the Calendar:
Find upcoming meetings, webinars and observances - Resources:
VoICE, rotavirus and type 1 diabetes, and VIS updates
2020 Webinars
Get continuing education credits by viewing Vaccine Education Center webinars.
- Upcoming webinars
- April 15, 2020
- Sept. 23, 2020
- Dec. 9, 2020
- Download the 2020 webinar calendar.
- View past webinars.
Educational Materials
Use our free "Prescription for Information" pads to send your patients and their families to our online information. These pads can be viewed and printed online (English [PDF, 143KB], Spanish [PDF, 146KB]) or ordered using this form [PDF, 113KB] or the online free materials order form.
Introduce your patients and their families to the free program called Parents PACK using the Parents PACK tear pad [PDF, 625KB], so that they have a reliable source of information about vaccines. Parents PACK tear pads can also be ordered free of charge using this form [PDF, 113KB] or the online free materials order form.