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Vaccines for healthcare personnel: a core safety measure. A position statement from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2026

David J. Weber Open the ORCID record for David J. Weber [Opens in a new window] ,
Grace M. Lee ,
Erica S. Shenoy Open the ORCID record for Erica S. Shenoy [Opens in a new window] ,
Deborah S. Yokoe Open the ORCID record for Deborah S. Yokoe [Opens in a new window] ,
Rajalakshmi Ananthanarayanan ,
Carolee Estelle ,
Jesse T. Jacob ,
Jennie H. Kwon Open the ORCID record for Jennie H. Kwon [Opens in a new window] ,
Lisa L. Maragakis Open the ORCID record for Lisa L. Maragakis [Opens in a new window]  and
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David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Grace M. Lee
Affiliation:
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Erica S. Shenoy
Affiliation:
Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Deborah S. Yokoe
Affiliation:
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, CA, USA
Rajalakshmi Ananthanarayanan
Affiliation:
KIMSHEALTH, Kerala, India
Carolee Estelle
Affiliation:
University of Texas Southwestern & Parkland Health, Dallas, TX, USA
Jesse T. Jacob
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Jennie H. Kwon
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Northwestern Medicine & Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Lisa L. Maragakis
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Rekha Murthy
Affiliation:
Cedars-Sinai and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Priya Nori
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Montefiore Health System, Bronx, NY, USA
Ann-Christine Nyquist
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Catherine Passaretti
Affiliation:
Advocate Health, Charlotte, NC, USA
Lisa Saiman
Affiliation:
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Julia E. Szymczak
Affiliation:
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Thomas R. Talbot
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Corresponding author: David J. Weber; Email: david.weber@unchealth.unc.edu
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has listed vaccination as one the top 10 public health achievements,1 and vaccines have led to a tremendous reduction in deaths due to vaccine-preventable disease in the United States alone.2 There are over 22 million persons employed in healthcare in the United States, making healthcare personnel (HCP) an important population to target for vaccination efforts. Promoting vaccination for HCP as defined by the CDC is likely to become even more essential given the rising incidence in the United States of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and pertussis.3

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , April 2026 , pp. 331 - 333
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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