The United States is facing a vaccine shortage that may threaten public health. This book examines vaccine research and development, production and supply, and utilization and offers recommendations aimed at ensuring vaccine supply and promoting innovation. In addition, this comprehensive volume provides information on the adverse reactions associated with the range of vaccines used in the United States and contains the most thorough analysis ever published on the state of the law regarding vaccine-related injury and compensation for vaccine injury.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
1 Summary
2 Vaccines: Past, Present, and Future
3 Vaccine Availability: Concerns, Barriers, and Impediments
4 Economic Aspects of Vaccine Innovation and Manufacturing
5 Vaccine Injury
6 Liability for the Production and Sale of Vaccines
7 An Approach to Problems of Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration in Vaccine Policy
8 Vaccine Injury Compensation and Liability Remedies
Appendix A: Product License Holders
Appendix B: A Vaccine Supply Public Insurance Option
Appendix C: No-Fault Vaccine Injury Insurance
Appendix D: Injury Compensation Systems in the United States
Appendix E: Vaccine-Injury Compensation in Other Countries
Appendix F: Proposed Vaccine-Injury Compensation Systems
Appendix G: Mechanisms Used in Other Countries to Ensure Vaccine Supply
Appendix H: Background Papers
Appendix I: Biographical Notes on Committee Members and Consultants
Appendix J: Recommendations for the Proposed Vaccine Commission
Index