The AAP has assembled key reports, research and other resources to assist in your research on immunization. If you need help locating experts to interview, please contact the AAP Department of Communications at 847-434-7877 or commun@aap.org. Parent resources are available at www.aap.org/healthtopics/immunizations.cfm.

AAP Recommended Immunization Schedules

• Childhood schedule
  
  
• Adolescent schedule
  
  
• Catch-up schedule
  

AAP Policies

• Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules—United States, 2009
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics 2009 123: 189-190
  
  
• Prevention of Influenza: Recommendations for Influenza Immunization of Children, 2008–2009
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics 2008 122: 1135-1141
  
  
• Prevention of Influenza: Recommendations for Influenza Immunization in Children,
  2008-2009
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics Nov 2008; 122: 1135-1141
  
  
• Prevention of Human Papillomavirus Infection: Provisional Recommendations for Immunization of Females With Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics Sept 2007; 120: 666-668
  
  
• Prevention of Varicella: Recommendations for Use of Varicella Vaccines in Children, Including a Recommendation for a Routine 2-Dose Varicella Immunization Schedule
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics July 2007; 120: 221-231
  
  
• Hepatitis A Vaccine Recommendations
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics July 2007; 120: 189-199
  
  
• Prevention of Rotavirus Disease: Guidelines for Use of Rotavirus Vaccine
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics Jan 2007; 119: 171-182
  
  
• Prevention of Pertussis Among Adolescents: Recommendations for Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid, and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics March 2006; 117: 965-978
  
  
• Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease: Recommendations for Use of Meningococcal Vaccines in Pediatric Patients
  Committee on Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics 2005; 116: 496-505
  
  
• Responding to Parental Refusal to Vaccinate
  Committee on Bioethics
  Pediatrics 2005; 115: 1428-1431
  
  
• For other AAP Immunization Policies, visit http://www.cispimmunize.org/aap/AAPpolicy.htm.
  

Research

• Neuropsychological Performance 10 Years After Immunization in Infancy With Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines
  Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Patrizia Bisiacchi, Vincenza Tarantino, Barbara De Mei, Lidia D’Elia, Flavia Chiarotti, and Stefania Salmaso
  Pediatrics, Feb 2009; 123: 475 – 482
  
  
• Primary Care Physician Perspectives on Reimbursement for Childhood Immunizations
  Gary L. Freed, Anne E. Cowan, and Sarah J. Clark
  Pediatrics, Dec 2008; 122: 1319 - 1324
  
  
• Media Coverage of the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autism Controversy and Its Relationship to MMR Immunization Rates in the United States
  Michael J. Smith, Susan S. Ellenberg, Louis M. Bell, and David M. Rubin
  Pediatrics, Apr 2008; 121: e836 - e843.
  
  
• “Pertussis Hospitalizations Among Infants in the United States, 1993-2004,”
  Margaret M. Cortese, Andrew L. Baughman, Rongping Zhang, Pamela U. Srivastava, and Gregory S. Wallace
  Pediatrics, Mar 2008; 121: 484 - 492
  
  
• Mercury Levels in Newborns and Infants After Receipt of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines
  Michael E. Pichichero, Angela Gentile, Norberto Giglio, Veronica Umido, Thomas Clarkson, Elsa Cernichiari, Grazyna Zareba, Carlos Gotelli, Mariano Gotelli, Lihan Yan, and John Treanor
  Pediatrics, Feb 2008; 121: e208 - e214
  
  
• Mercury, Vaccines, and Autism: One Controversy, Three Histories.
  Baker J.
  American Journal of Public Health, Feb 2008; 98: 244-253
  
  
• Continuing Increases in Autism Reported to California’s Developmental Services System: Mercury in Retrograde.
  Schechter R, Grether J.
  Archives of General Psychiatry. 2008; 65: 19-24
  
  
• Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence From Danish Population-Based Data
  Kreesten M. Madsen, Marlene B. Lauritsen, Carsten B. Pedersen, Poul Thorsen, Anne-Marie Plesner, Peter H. Andersen, and Preben B. Mortensen
  Pediatrics, Sep 2003; 112: 604 - 606.
  
  
• Economic Evaluation of the 7-Vaccine Routine Childhood Immunization Schedule in the United States, 2001
  Zhou F, Santoli J, Messonnier M, Yusuf H, Shefer A, Chu S, Rodewald L, Harpaz, R
  Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine 2005; 159: 1136-1144
  
  
• See additional research related to autism in the Autism Issue Kit.

Commentaries

• The Problem With Dr Bob’s Alternative Vaccine Schedule
  Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser
  Pediatrics, Jan 2009; 123: e164 - e169
  
  
• Protecting Public Trust in Immunization
  Louis Z. Cooper, Heidi J. Larson, and Samuel L. Katz
  Pediatrics, July 2008; 122: 149 – 153
  
  
• Robust infrastructure ensures vaccine safety after licensure.
  Larry Pickering and Joseph Bocchini, Jr.
  AAP News, May 2008; 29 (5): 1
  Reprinted with permission of AAP News, June 2008
  
  
• Vaccines and Autism Revisited — The Hannah Poling Case
  Paul Offit
  New England Journal of Medicine May 15, 2008; 358:2089 Perspective
  
  
• Addressing Parents ’ Concerns: Do Vaccines Contain Harmful Preservatives, Adjuvants, Additives, or Residuals?
  Paul Offit and Rita Jew
  Pediatrics, Dec 2003; 112: 1394 - 1397.
  

Multimedia

• Immunization B-Roll
  
  
• Audio interview with Joseph A. Bocchini, Jr., MD, FAAP, chair of the AAP National Committee on Infectious Diseases
  
  
• Photos of vaccine-preventable diseases
  
  

Other Resources

• Immunization resources for parents and clinicians from the AAP
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control Vaccine Safety Page
  
  
• Current National Vaccine Supply (CDC)
  
  
• What would happen if we stopped vaccinations? Information and statistics from the CDC on deaths and disease prevented by the U.S. immunization program.

August 2008