News — During a March 19 , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health experts Anna Durbin and William Moss discussed the current measles outbreak in the U.S., the role vaccines play in public health, the diseases that vaccines have virtually wiped out in the U.S., vaccines and safety concerns, and ongoing vaccine research.

, MD, is a professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies experimental vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, dengue, West Nile virus, Zika, malaria, and more in human clinical trials and in controlled human infection studies.

, MD, is a professor in the departments of Epidemiology; International Health; and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and executive director at the Bloomberg School’s International Vaccine Access Center.

Introduction
Update on measles outbreak Diseases prevented by vaccines
Vaccine hesitancy
Checking immune status
Forecasting outbreaks
Alternative therapies
Losing elimination status
Communicating about vaccines effectively
mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine access
HHS policy on vaccines
Tuberculosis

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