Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Children and Adolescents (Ages 6-17)
Immunization is the best protection against many infectious respiratory illnesses. Vaccines strengthen our immune defenses and reduce the severity and spread of disease.
Last Updated12/23/2025
Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Children and Adolescents (Ages 6-17)
Immunization is the best protection against many infectious respiratory illnesses. Vaccines strengthen our immune defenses and reduce the severity and spread of disease.
Immunization is the best protection against many infectious respiratory illnesses. Vaccines strengthen our immune defenses and reduce the severity and spread of disease.
Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Vaccine Considerations During Pregnancy
Immunization is the best protection against many infectious respiratory illnesses. Vaccines strengthen our immune defenses and reduce the severity and spread of disease.
Last Updated12/23/2025
Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Vaccine Considerations During Pregancy
Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Vaccine Considerations for Adults with Increased Risk
Immunization is the best protection against many infectious respiratory illnesses. Vaccines strengthen our immune defenses and reduce the severity and spread of disease.
Last Updated12/23/2025
Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Vaccine Considerations for Adults with Increased Risk
Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Babies and Young Children (Ages 2 Months-6 Years)
Immunization is the best protection against many infectious respiratory illnesses. Vaccines strengthen our immune defenses and reduce the severity and spread of disease.
Last Updated12/23/2025
Infectious Respiratory Disease Immunization Timeline: Babies and Young Children (Ages 2 Months-6 Years)
Randy Rutta, CEO of the National Health Council, discusses the importance of investing in community health through preventive measures such as vaccination.
Immunization is the best protection against many infectious respiratory illnesses. Learn more about the timelines for vaccination against infectious respiratory diseases for different groups of individuals.
This respiratory illness season, families in communities around the country face vaccine-preventable diseases that can cause serious illness in children — from the flu, COVID-19, whooping cough, pneumococcal disease, and RSV, to measles. Meanwhile, recent data show that vaccination rates in children continue to decline, leaving them more vulnerable and susceptible to severe illness.
Given this landscape, many parents and caregivers have questions about pediatric vaccines, including access through the federal Vaccines for Children program. This is a critical moment for vaccine champions to reinforce focus on pediatric vaccine uptake and strategies that help protect against severe respiratory illness.
Experts in pediatric care, public health, and vaccine policy discussed the critical role that respiratory vaccines play in keeping children safe and practical tools for supporting childhood vaccination during respiratory illness season and beyond.
Panelists included:
Michelle Fiscus, MD, FAAP, Chief Medical Officer, Association of Immunization Managers (AIM)
James Campbell, MD, MS, Vice Chair, Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Moderator: Stacy Buchanan, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, Chair, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Immunization Special Interest Group
