Vaccination ethics and policy: an introduction with readings

Enduring themes in vaccination history and ethics. The history of vaccines and immunization: familiar patterns, new challenges / Alexandra Minn Stern and Howard Markel

Immunity for the people: the challenge of achieving high vaccine coverage in American history / James Colgrove

The age-old struggle against the antivaccinationists / Gregory A. Poland and Robert M. Jacobson

Ethics and immunization policy: promoting dialogue to sustain consensus / Chris Feudtner and Edgar K. Marcuse

Issues in vaccine research and development. The vaccine industry (excerpt) / R. Gordon Douglas and Vijay B. Samant

A global roadmap is needed for vaccine research, development, and deployment / Adel Mahmoud

Making practical markets for vaccines / Donald W. Light

Ethical issues in international vaccine research and development / Robert J. Levine

Thorny issues in the ethics of AIDS vaccine trials / Seth Berkley

The vaccine (excerpt) / Michael Specter

Ethical considerations in biomedical HIV prevention trials (excerpt) / UNAIDS

Vaccine regulation, risk-benefit assessments, and safety. Immunization in the United States (excerpt) / Lance E. Rodewald [and others]

Addressing the vaccine confidence gap (excerpt) / Heidi J. Larson [and others]

A half-century of prevention

the advisory committee on immunization practices /

Jason L. Schwartz and Adel Mahmoud

The national vaccine injury compensation program / Katherine M. Cook and Geoffrey Evans

Rationalizing vaccine injury compensation / Michelle M. Mello

Mercury, vaccines, and autism: a tale of shifting hypotheses / Jeffrey S. Gerber and Paul A. Offit

Wakefield's article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent (excerpt) / Fiona Godlee, Jane Smith, and Harvey Marcovitch

Vaccination requirements and responses to vaccine hesitancy

Compulsory vaccination and conscientious or philosophical exemptions: past, present, and future / Daniel A. Salmon [and others]

Vaccine refusal, mandatory immunization, and the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases / Saad B. Omer [and others]

Fatal exemption / Paul A. Offit

Politics, parents, and prophylaxis

mandating HPV vaccination in the United States /

R. Alta Charo

Lessons from the failure of Human Papillomavirus vaccine state requirements / Jason L. Schwartz [and others]

Responding to parental refusals of immunization of children / Douglas S. Diekema and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics

Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel: revised society for healthcare epidemiology of America (SHEA) position paper (excerpt) / Thomas R. Talbot [and others]

Pandemics and bioterrorism: the role of vaccine preparedness and response

Who should get influenza vaccine when not all can? / Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Alan Wertheimer

Ethical vaccine distribution planning for pandemic influenza: prioritizing homeless and hard-to-reach populations (excerpt) / Kristy Buccieri and Stephen Gaetz

Poverty, wealth, and access to pandemic influenza vaccines / Tadataka Yamada

Negotiating equitable access to influenza vaccines: global health diplomacy and the controversies surrounding avian influenza H5N1 and pandemic influenza H1N1 / David P. Fidler

Safeguarding children: pediatric medical countermeasure research (executive summary) / Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

Protecting our children from bioterrorism requires testing of anthrax vaccine / Tia Powell

Global vaccination and disease eradication programs

Rethinking global access to vaccine (excerpt) / Dave. A Chokshi and Aaron Kesselheim

Improving access to vaccines through tiered pricing / Seth Berkley

Ethical considerations for vaccination programs in acute humanitarian emergencies / Keymanthri Moodley [and others]

Lessons from the eradication of smallpox: an interview with D. A. Henderson (excerpt) / D. A. Henderson and Petra Klepac

Intimidation, coercion, and resistance in the final stages of the south Asian smallpox eradication campaign (excerpt) / Paul Greenough

Is there an ethical obligation to complete polio eradication? / Claudia I. Emerson and Peter A. singer

Letter from public health deans regarding fictional vaccination campaigns in the search for Osama Bin Laden and response from the White House

Frontiers in vaccination. A handful of "antipoverty" vaccines exist for neglected disease, but the world's poorest billion people need more / Peter Hotez

Vaccines against stimulants: cocaine and methamphetamine (excerpt) / Thomas Kosten [and others]

Anti-cancer vaccines

a one-hit wonder (excerpt) /

Justin H. K. Liu

Synthetic generation of influenza vaccine viruses for rapid response to pandemics (excerpt) / Philip R. Dormitzer, Pirada Suphaphiphat, and colleagues

Vaccines against malaria (excerpt) / Amed Ouattara and Matthew B. Laurens

Randomized controlled trials for Ebola: practical and ethical issues / Clement Adebamowo, Oumou Bah-Sow, and colleagues

Evaluating Ebola therapies

the case for RCTs /

Edward Cox, Luciana Borio, and Robert Temple