Vaccine Supply and Innovation

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.

• 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