Faculty and graduates’ flu surveillance study tracks pediatric vaccination rates
Vanderbilt MPH Program faculty members and alumni Carlos Grijalva, M.D., M.P.H., Astride Jules, M.D., M.P.H., Yuwei Zhu, M.D., M.S., Keipp Talbot, M.D., M.P.H., William Schaffner, M.D., and Marie Griffin, M.D., M.P.H., worked with researchers at the Wake Forest University and the CDC on a study appearing in the January edition of Pediatrics on how Nashville children ages 6 months through 5 years fared over 11 consecutive flu seasons concluding in 2010-11.
“Active surveillance like that conducted at Vanderbilt has been crucial to demonstrate the burden of influenza among young children and to inform public policy,” said one of the authors, Carlos Grijalva, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Health Policy. “Data have revealed the large burden of disease caused by influenza among young children."