Science
25 April 2014 vol 344, issue 6182, pages 333-440
http://www.sciencemag.org/current.dtl
Editorial
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
Barry R. Bloom1, Edgar Marcuse2, Seth Mnookin3
1Barry R. Bloom is a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
2Edgar Marcuse is a professor emeritus at University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195.
3Seth Mnookin is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Last month, the World Health Organization certified India and Southeast Asia as being polio-free, an extraordinary achievement given that the polio vaccine was declared safe and effective only 59 years ago. Vaccines are one of the safest and most cost-effective medical interventions in history. By immunizing infants, children, and teenagers, vaccines protect the entire community. Nevertheless, there is a surge of outbreaks in vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States. What research is needed to reverse this trend?