Newswise — During a March 19 media briefing, 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.
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Anna Durbin, 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.
William Moss, 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.
00:00 Introduction
1:21 Update on measles outbreak
6:44 Diseases prevented by vaccines
10:16 Vaccine hesitancy
11:30 Checking immune status
14:35 Forecasting outbreaks
16:21 Alternative therapies
18:00 Losing elimination status
20:11 Communicating about vaccines effectively
23:57 mRNA vaccine research
25:40 Vaccine access
27:12 HHS policy on vaccines
29:25 Tuberculosis
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