Child and Adolescent Health

BSPH Faculty and Doctoral Candidate Serve on Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing | Johns Hopkins

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The second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing released its latest report, A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing, on May 21 at a side event to the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The report argues that adolescent health is at a tipping point, with progress falling behind … Read more

Understanding Children’s Vaccines | Johns Hopkins

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What different types of vaccines do kids receive? There are several basic classes: Live attenuated vaccines use a weakened version of the viral pathogen that causes the disease to induce a protective immune response against that virus. Examples of attenuated viral vaccines are the MMR vaccine and the varicella vaccine. Sometimes they can cause very … Read more