Vaccines: A Historical and Clinical Perspective on Prevention, Progress, and Public Health

Activity Description

This course explores the evolution and science of vaccines and their role in preventing infectious diseases, with a clinical focus on measles, including current outbreaks, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It examines today’s public health challenges, the changing vaccine landscape, and the drivers of vaccine hesitancy. Learners will gain evidence‑based strategies to address hesitancy and misinformation in clinical and team‑based settings.

Target Audience

Nurses
Physicians
Pharmacists 
Pharmacy Technicians

Learning Objectives

  1. Analyze the historical milestones in vaccine development that paved the way for current strategies to prevent infectious diseases, including the scientific principles behind vaccine development of live-attenuated, inactivated, subunit, vector based and nucleic acid vaccines.
  2. Examine the impact of vaccination on public health outcomes using specific examples of smallpox, polio, pertussis and measles.
  3. Explore how vaccine mandates and hesitancy have developed over time, revealing how historical context helps explain current public health dynamics 
  4. Discuss current measles outbreaks and review measles presentation, diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
  5. Discuss challenges of vaccine misinformation and opportunities to address vaccine hesitancy.
Course summary
Available credit (Listed in Hours): 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
  • 1.00 ACPE Technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Attendance/Participation
Course opens: 
03/19/2026
Course expires: 
03/18/2029

Speaker Information

Image of Dr LaffStacie Laff, MD, FAAP is a board certified pediatrician with more than 25 years of experience caring for children and supporting families. Over the years, her work has spanned outpatient and inpatient pediatrics and now utilization management, where she helps guide quality initiatives and develop practical, evidence based resources for providers and families. She is passionate about is helping people feel confident in preventive care — especially vaccines — and making sure that information is clear, accessible, and grounded in what truly improves outcomes for children and communities.

Disclosures

NameRoleDisclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships with Ineligible Company

Stacie Laff

Physician

Planner / SpeakerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Mary Wagoner

Pharmacist

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Kari Muskopf

Occupational Therapist

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Gabriel Elliot

Pharmacy Technician

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Christy Johnson

Nurse

PlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Aristotle Sun

Physician

Independent ReviewerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education (Centene Institute) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. Centene Institute ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.

None of the Centene Institute staff members have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
 
 
 

Credit Designation Statements

Physicians
The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Nurses
The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® designates this enduring material for a maximum of ANCC 1.00 contact hours.
 
Pharmacists & Pharmacy Technicians
The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® designates this  knowledge-based activity for a maximum of 1.00 hour. Participants should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Credit will be provided to CPE Monitor within 60 days after the activity completion.
 
Universal Activity Number UAN JA4008309-0000-26-009-H01-P/T

Available Credit (Listed in Hours)

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
  • 1.00 ACPE Technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Attendance/Participation
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