Description

This episode covers National Infant Immunization Week. This annual awareness week highlights the importance of protecting infants from vaccine-preventable diseases and celebrates the achievements of immunization programs everywhere. During this episode we sit down with four champions of public health: 

• Dr. Trudy Larson, Dean and trained Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist from the School of Community Health Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)
• Shannon Bennett, Immunization Program Manager at the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health
• Heidi Parker, Executive Director of Immunize Nevada
• Megan Schwarzrock, Health Educator at Early Head Start, Pediatric Nurse, and parent of three young children 

For more information on National Infant Immunization Week go to https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niiw/index.html or https://immunizenevada.org/

This podcast is brought to you by the School of Community Health Sciences and the Nevada Public Health Training Center at the University of Nevada, Reno, https://www.unr.edu/public-health.