The Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines - Public Health On Call | Lyssna här

About this episode:

In the latest move to alter the childhood vaccine schedule, the president has signed an executive order seeking to scale back and restructure routine immunizations. In this episode: what's in the executive order, what it means, and what comes next.

Guest:

Dr. Josh Sharfstein is distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. He served as the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health from 2005 to 2009.

Host:

Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Show links and related content:

Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans—The White House
HHS Changes Its Pediatric Vaccine Recommendations: What's Different, What Remains, and What It Means for American Health—Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
What Exactly is in a Vaccine?—Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A Judge Rules on Vaccines—Public Health On Call (April 2026)
The Evidence on Vaccines and Autism—Public Health On Call (March 2025)

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