Vaccine Exemption Research Garners NICHD Funding

Source: Penn Nursing News, August 20, 2014 CHIBE Faculty member Alison Buttenheim has received a grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development to investigate the vaccination status of children exempt from school-entry immunization mandates. Her research in vaccine hesitancy and refusal titled “Potential Effects of California’s New Vaccine Exemption Law on the Prevalence and Clustering of Exemptions” was recently published in the American Journal of Public Health.