The AAP strongly recommends on-time routine immunization of all children and adolescents according to the Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule.

Immunizations Overview
Immunizations are one of the greatest public health achievements, preventing tens of thousands of deaths, millions of cases of disease, and saving billions of dollars per decade. Immunizations are a safe, effective way to protect children from disease, including some cancers, as well as hospitalization, disability, and death. It is especially important to maintain routine immunizations to prevent a disease outbreak, public health emergency or future pandemic.
Pediatricians play a crucial role in immunizing children and are a trusted source for vaccine information. Vaccine conversations with parents should begin as early as possible — ideally at the prenatal visit.
AAP Recommendations
Learn more about policy recommendations and the regulations and laws that the AAP supports surrounding vaccination.
Interactive Vaccination Map
This interactive map allows immunizers and families to see immunization rates and exemptions by state, and to compare these rates to national rates, goals, and immunity thresholds needed to keep communities safe from vaccine-preventable diseases. This map also presents immunization rates broken down by demographics, such as insurance coverage, race, urbanicity and poverty level. Data come from the CDC National Immunization Survey and are updated annually.

More About the Science
Vaccines are both safe and effective. Learn more about how they work and how we know they’re safe.
Immunization Discussion Guides
These portable digital tools help facilitate discussions about immunizations with families.
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Professional Tools and Resources
The AAP offers a robust set of tools and resources to help you communicate with families and ensure patients stay up to date on immunizations.
Resources for Families
Many parents are happy to protect their children with vaccines. Some have questions. This page offers helpful links to HealthyChildren.org, the parenting website of the AAP.
CDC Childhood Immunization Coverage
The National Immunization Surveys (NIS) are a group of phone surveys used to monitor vaccination coverage among children 19-35 months and teens 13-17 years. Learn about data collected in the most recent NIS.
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Podcasts and Voices Blogs
Learn what others are saying. Listen to our podcasts and read our blog posts.
Reframing the Vaccine Conversation, Diversifying Clinical Trials – Episode 151
In this episode Julie Sweetland, PhD, a sociolinguist and senior advisor at the FrameWorks Institute, shares strategies for public messaging about vaccines. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak with Ryan Brewster, MD, about his research on the racial and ethnic diversity of pediatric clinical trials.
Pediatrics On Call Podcast
|March 21, 2023

Vaccine Messaging to Reduce Hesitancy – Episode 88
In this episode Patrick O’Shea, PhD, a senior researcher at the FrameWorks Institute, shares findings from the first in a series of studies about how the public perceives vaccines. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, Chair of the AAP Council on Communications and Media, about her work at the Mayo Clinic to educate immigrant populations about vaccines.
Pediatrics On Call Podcast
|October 26, 2021

Childhood Immunization: Preventing a Lifetime of What if
Through recollections and family experiences, this pediatrician shares why we need to speak boldly about the protection vaccines offer.
Voices Blog
|August 21, 2019

Last Updated
07/10/2023
Source
American Academy of Pediatrics