The Vaccine Handbook

The Vaccine Handbook covers the majority of vaccine issues and provides answers to common questions that a busy healthcare provider may encounter on a daily basis. It is written to offer guidance to providers in recommending and administering the currently recommended vaccines for age according to CDC guidelines. It also provides guidance for the healthcare provider in preparing patients who are planning to travel to countries abroad on the vaccines that their patients should be receiving.

Tina Q. Tan is Professor of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; and a Pediatric Infectious Diseases attending, Medical Director of the International Patient and Destination Services Program (IPS), co-Director of the Pediatric Travel Medicine Clinic; and Director of the International Adoptee Clinic at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. She is currently serving as the Vice President of the Lurie Children's Hospital Medical/Dental Staff. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
John P. Flaherty, MD, joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1988 and moved to Northwestern University in 2001 where he is Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Medical Education. He served as the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director for over 20 years and continues as the Microbiology Content Director for the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine curriculum.
Dan
P. Dunham, is Chair, Department of Medicine, Northwell/Lenox Hill Hospital. He spent 20 years at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where he held several prominent roles, including as director of quality improvement, director of clinical practice and associate division chief in ambulatory medicine. Throughout these two decades, he also served in an educational capacity, starting off as an instructor and advancing to the role of professor. He received his medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago after completing his undergraduate degree with honors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and subsequently obtained his MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Illinois School of Public Health in Chicago.

- Introduction
- PART I: VACCINE OVERVIEW
- Vaccine Facts
- Addressing Patient Concerns about Receiving Vaccines
- Common Vaccines by Type
- Administering Vaccines: Dose, Route, Site, and Needle Size
- PART II: VACCINES THROUGHOUT THE LIFECYCLE
- 2024 Infant, Child, and Adolescent Immunization Schedules
- 2024 Adult Immunization Schedules
- Summary of Vaccines Routinely Recommended for Adults
- Vaccines and Pregnancy
- PART III: ROUTINE VACCINES FOR VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES
- Diphtheria
- Tetanus
- Pertussis
- Influenza
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Varicella-zoster (chickenpox)
- Herpes-zoster (shingles)
- Pneumococcal disease
- Meningococcal disease
- Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
- Hemophilus influenza type B disease
- Poliovirus infections
- Rotavirus infections
- COVID-19 (SARS Co-V2)
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
- Dengue
- Mpox (aka Monkeypox)
- Contraindications and Precautions for Commonly Used Vaccines
- PART IV: TRAVEL VACCINES
- Yellow Fever
- Typhoid Fever
- Japanese encephalitis
- Rabies
- Cholera
- Tick-Borne Encephalitis
- References