Tony Yang, associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy, and Kathryn Jacobsen, professor in the Department of Global and Community Health, co-authored a commentary on why measles vaccines should be mandatory for school entry. The commentary appears in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
Yang and Jacobsen, along with their co-authors Shalinee Bhoobun of Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Taha Itani of the School of Public Health at Bielefeld University, argue that mandatory school entry vaccinations (with exemptions for medical conditions and other special needs) is an important tool for preventing outbreaks of measles. Read the full commentary.