
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
Learning Objectives
- 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.
- Examine the impact of vaccination on public health outcomes using specific examples of smallpox, polio, pertussis and measles.
- Explore how vaccine mandates and hesitancy have developed over time, revealing how historical context helps explain current public health dynamics
- Discuss current measles outbreaks and review measles presentation, diagnosis, prevention and treatment.
- Discuss challenges of vaccine misinformation and opportunities to address vaccine hesitancy.
Speaker Information
Stacie 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
| Name | Role | Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships with Ineligible Company |
|---|---|---|
Stacie Laff Physician | Planner / Speaker | No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose |
Mary Wagoner Pharmacist | Planner | No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose |
Kari Muskopf Occupational Therapist | Planner | No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose |
Gabriel Elliot Pharmacy Technician | Planner | No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose |
Christy Johnson Nurse | Planner | No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose |
Aristotle Sun Physician | Independent Reviewer | No 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

Credit Designation Statements

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
This course is restricted to internal Centene employees.
Since CE boards may have changes in requirements, it is the responsibility of the attendee to verify with their boards if they accept the CEs being offered.
ADA Accommodations: Please contact us at [email protected] at least two weeks in advance of the training date to arrange accommodations.
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