One in six kids started but did not complete vaccine series

Sarah Michels

SPCHS epidemiologist Sarah Michels, PhD student Alexandria Albers, and Dr. Sophia Newcomer recently published a paper in Pediatrics, which found that more than one in six U.S. children started but did not complete vaccine series. This work was a collaboration between the University of Montana’s Center for Population Health Research, Yale School of Public Health, and Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research. Read more about the study here.

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