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Keeping Vaccinations on Track
New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate more than a quarter of all toddlers in the United States may be under-vaccinated, which can leave them unprotected against diseases like measles, mumps and even polio.
GT researchers team up with the CDC to help keep kids’ vaccinations on track
Using computer science and mathematical models, Dr. Pinar Keskinocak with the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Engineering and her colleagues at Georgia Tech and the Center for Disease Control have created an interactive childhood immunization scheduler. This new downloadable software tool will help pediatricians, parents and other health care professionals determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccine doses aren’t received at the proper time.
To view a video relating to the initiative, please visit the Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science website.
To learn more about the tool, read the previous article.