Looking Back, Looking Ahead 2025
2024 saw many twists and turns in the global vaccine landscape. Another year come and gone, 2025 brings new challenges and new promises for global immunization.
Community Health Workers Are Critical To Providing Care
In many countries, community health workers are they key to ensuring health services reach the most isolated and the most vulnerable.
Letter to the editor: Utah politicians must stand up for vaccines
Shot@Life Champion Lori Harding's Letter to the Editor during Mobilize to Immunize.
Stopping the Silent Pandemic
From a High-Level Meeting at this year’s UN General Assembly to this week’s international observance, anti-microbial resistance is increasingly a major focus in global health. Here’s what you need to know.
Today is World Pneumonia Day
Today, on World Pneumonia Day, we take you through some of the basics of pneumonia and why vaccines are among the best tools we have to prevent the most serious cases.
World Polio Day 2024
Today, we celebrate World Polio Day, and recognize the progress made towards eradicating polio—made possible through U.S. innovation and international collaboration.
Your advocacy of childhood immunizations matters
Shot@Life Champion Diane Glasgow's Letter to the Editor during Mobilize to Immunize.
Women and Vaccines: Bridging the Gap for Gender Equity
In honor of International Day of the Girl Child, we delve into an often-overlooked dimension of vaccine equity: reaching and empowering girls and women.
‘Ask A Nurse’ Champion Webinar Recap
Dr. Mary Koslap-Petraco and Melody Butler, two healthcare professionals and vaccine advocates, shared their experience and tips for addressing vaccine hesitancy in Shot@Life's 'Ask A Nurse' Champion Webinar.
Immunization at UNGA79
Global health is again on the agenda at the 79th UN General Assembly. Here’s what you need to know.
Collaboration is Key to Combat Measles
With measles spiking in the U.S. and around the world, it’s more important than ever to work together to expand access to lifesaving vaccines.
Vaccines Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
In honor of World Mosquito Day, we look at the ways in which vaccines have and continue to revolutionize progress against mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and malaria.
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Fighting polio isn’t just about preventing and treating cases. It’s about catching outbreaks before they can spread.
But did you know the early warning systems developed for polio also help catch outbreaks of novel and emerging disease threats?
Check out this episode of Global Dispatches to learn how: https://www.globaldispatches.org/how-existing-disease-surveillance
Apr 21
Thanks to international partnership and U.S. leadership, we’ve made enormous progress against polio – last year, there were just 39 cases of wild polio. But we can’t stop now and risk a comeback.
Ask YOUR Senators to commit to polio eradication today: https://bit.ly/senate-polio-27.
Apr 15
Just three weeks left until World Immunization Week (#WIW).
For over 200 years, vaccines have protected generation after generation. Vaccines have been so successful that many of the diseases that families once feared are now rarely seen in many parts of the world.
Let`s keep up the effort to ensure fewer children die from preventable illnesses, adolescents are protected against diseases that threaten their future, and older generations enjoy longer, healthier lives.
Apr 6
The WHO puts it plainly: delaying climate action undermines decades of public health progress.
In Mexico, for example, 80% of the population is at health risk from extreme weather, and a whopping 35% of diseases may be directly linked to environmental exposure.
Malaria, dengue, respiratory disease, malnutrition—all of it is getting worse as the planet warms. We can`t achieve global immunization goals on a destabilized planet. Climate action = health advocacy.
Apr 2
This #WorldTBDay, we are close to the first tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in more than a century.
TB may seem like a disease of the past, but it remains a leading infectious cause of death worldwide. Keep watching for a timeline of humanity`s oldest and deadliest disease.
Mar 24
South Kordofan, Sudan hadn’t received vaccines in nearly three years. Not because the vaccines don’t exist, but because a siege blocked them. This month, 18 metric tons finally got through, and nearly 25,000 children will be given lifesaving vaccines this year.
Vaccines only work if they can be administered. This delivery is a breakthrough; somewhere in Sudan this month, a child received a measles vaccine for the first time in nearly three years.
Mar 17
Cervical cancer is a vaccine access problem. In a major development, India is joining the 160 other countries that are taking action against it—free HPV vaccines for adolescent girls, nationwide. When political will meets public health evidence, lives are saved.
India`s nationwide HPV rollout is a win for 1.4 billion people, for the girls and women of our future generations, and for the global fight to eliminate cervical cancer as a whole.
Mar 10
Polio isn’t fully gone yet. Outbreaks still happen in under-vaccinated communities, and when they do, the world needs to respond fast. That means having enough of the right vaccines, ready to go, anywhere on the planet.
This latest prequalification helps make that possible by adding another novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) manufacturer to the global supply chain—that means more backup, less risk of shortages, faster protection for kids when it matters most.
Mar 5
In a powerful demonstration of global coordination and scientific agility, the World Health Organization has swiftly updated the 2026-2027 Northern Hemisphere seasonal influenza vaccine to match the rapidly spreading subclade K variant.
After just 4 days of consultation through the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, experts from around the world finalized the new composition—helping countries prepare with the best possible protection. Despite leaving WHO earlier this year, U.S. experts participated.
When viruses evolve quickly, rapid, evidence-based updates like this are essential—and global cooperation delivered again.
Mar 2
Good news alert! 🚨 Next-generation flu vaccines could prevent 18 billion cases and save 6.2 million lives by 2050 while also mitigating AMR.
Current flu vaccines work—but protection only lasts one season, and effectiveness varies. Next-gen vaccines aim to offer broader, longer-lasting protection across multiple strains, reaching high-risk groups more effectively.
46 next-generation vaccine candidates are already in clinical development. Science doesn’t stop. 💪
Feb 26
Did you know fewer than 20 viral particles can be enough to spread norovirus?
At the 2026 Winter Olympics, that translated to postponed games, team quarantines, and athletes missing the opening ceremony. Mass gatherings are a powerful reminder of how quickly illness can travel across a village, a venue, or a border.
Protecting people everywhere starts with strong public health systems and universal access to vaccines.
Want more on public health at the Olympics? Check out a blog from Olympics Games of the past. #linkinstory⬆️
Feb 24
In 2024, 120 million people were displaced—leaving millions of children without lifesaving immunizations.
A new WHO report has confirmed what we already know: immunization coverage collapses in crisis settings. When families flee, routine immunization is one of the first things lost, putting children at risk of preventable diseases in the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
Our #HealthyStart for Refugee Children initiative is working to change that. Get involved today at shotatlife.org/healthystart
Feb 20
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