Episode 028 – Dr. Karen Landers a.k.a. Vaccines Are Vital

LeeCoSchools Edcast (Lee County, Alabama)

Show Notes: In this episode, we chat with Dr. Karen Landers from the Alabama Department of Public Health. She tells us about her awesome career, about vaccines, and dispels some common misconceptions surrounding this amazing scientific breakthrough. Alabama Department of Public Health - http://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - https://www.cdc.gov/ Marshall Islands TB Elimination Project - https://www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2018/sep/tb-elimination-unprecedented-efforts-marshall-islands-will-have-downstream-effects.htm World Health Organization Stats for Marshall Islands - https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/136940/ccsbrief_mhl_en.pdf;jsessionid=035FE2504DA37E4F10D5E3A599EF4E1E?sequence=1 History of Vaccine Development - https://vaccine-safety-training.org/history-of-vaccine-development.html Timeline of Vaccines - https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline#EVT_100852 The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur - https://www.amazon.com/Value-Believing-Yourself-Pasteur-Valuetales/dp/0916392066 Vaccines as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time - https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/greatest-discoveries/videos/the-beginning-of-vaccination Categories of Vaccines - https://www.vaccines.gov/basics/types Strategic National Stockpile - https://www.phe.gov/about/sns/Pages/default.aspx Strategic National Stockpile Fact Sheet - http://www.astho.org/Programs/Preparedness/Public-Health-Emergency-Law/Emergency-Use-Authorization-Toolkit/Strategic-National-Stockpile-Fact-Sheet/ Vaccine Myths Debunked - https://www.publichealth.org/public-awareness/understanding-vaccines/vaccine-myths-debunked/ Donald Ainslie (D.A.) Henderson and Smallpox Eradication - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388283/ Vaccines for Children (VFC) - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/index.html Intro and Outro music: Sunny Day by Audiobinger is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode). Transition music: Trebek's Lament by Learning Music is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/legalcode).