VFV Updates – Voices For Vaccines: Recent Episodes
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You know that conversation you don’t want to have—the one about vaccines with the family member, neighbor, colleague, or patient who is all mixed up about what to believe about vaccines? Fear no longer. By taking our online course, you will be the messenger who can: Easy, for free, and without a big time commitment! Let’s get started! There are plenty of reasons to avoid…
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The world might have decided that COVID is over and vaccines are not cool. Not us. We have seen your love for vaccination grow, so we have declared 2023 the Year of the Vaccine Enthusiast! Way to go! Read what we have accomplished together, and then show us your enthusiasm by becoming a donor! When people think of VFV, they think of our cool online work, such as our newsletter or…
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You do a lot for Voices for Vaccines, whether you are reading our newsletters, taking our free online course, submitting your photos, coming to our Vax Ambassador trainings, or volunteering in your community. We love this about you. We need more advocates like you. That’s why we are asking you to help us raise $10,000 by the end of June. start a fundraiser now If everyone we…
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Voices for Vaccines has partnered with Hennepin County Public Health to host a series of classes teaching community leaders how to engage in friendly, productive conversations with people who may be unsure about getting vaccinated. This class was created with consultation from the world’s foremost experts on Motivational Interviewing techniques and social-behavioral sciences. We also consulted a...
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National Immunization Awareness Month is the big show in the vaccine world. The idea is that everyone will get conversations started about immunizations just as the kids are about to go back to school, and the conversations will be about getting the whole family vaccinated. Voices for Vaccines has lots of fresh content coming out…
“I read this awful story about a girl who got that vaccine and…” Yep, social media and vaccines: the intersection where the worst information spreads the fastest and friendships end. We’ve all been there. It’s not all bad news. Social media can help us learn more about vaccines hesitancy and vaccines confidence, and we can…
There’s a narrative amongst anti-vaccine activists that people who work in the vaccine world are doing it for the money. Be they pediatricians or advocates or pharmaceutical employees or government workers, the story goes that they are primarily motivated by money. Of course, this story is false. I’ve met hundreds of “vaccine people,” as I…
It is National Infant Immunization Week, and that means we are talking vaccines in infancy. In particular, we are encouraging people who are expecting babies and their loves ones to discuss the benefits of immunizing on-time! When I say we are talking vaccines, I mean we are talking about vaccines everywhere! First, Nathan and I…
If I had a penny for every time I said, “I’m talking about mothers here because mothers are the people who usually make decisions about healthcare for their children,” I’d probably have a dollar. Still, we talk a great deal about motherhood, Crunchy Moms, Mom Tribes, mommy groups, and so forth when we talk about…
When I first heard that Dr. Chad Hayes (from Demystifying Pediatrics) and Natalie Newell (from the Science Moms film) were teaming up to do a podcast, I knew we had to talk to them. I’m glad we did talk, because the result was a great podcast episode covering topics from integrative medicine to Andrew Wakefield…
I don’t know if Dr. Paul Offit (author and doctor in Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) counts as famous, but for many in the pro-vaccine world, he certainly appears to be so. What might surprise his fans is that he is as kind and generous as he is intelligent. A few years ago,…
Five years ago, Voices for Vaccines relaunched as a pro-vaccine parent organization. On a personal level, working with Voices for Vaccines these past five years has been an honor and almost always a true joy. The absolute best part of this job, and of my efforts to coalesce a pro-vaccine movement to do good, has…
“My sister-in law won’t vaccinated my nieces and nephews.” “My cousin has been posting anti-vaccine memes on Facebook.” “My best friend is convinced her child’s autism was caused by vaccines.” Voices for Vaccines receives many emails, but the ones about a loved one who is vaccine hesitant catch my attention first. Because of the volume…
If you don’t know Tara Smith from Kent State, you should. That may be the main reason we asked her to be a guest on our most recent podcast. She’s smart, witty, and determined. But the excuse me made to have her on the podcast was a recent article she published, “Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy:…