Kelsie Cassell

Area-Level Disparities in Pneumococcal Vaccination Among Publicly Insured US Adults: 2016-2019

Objectives: Understanding pneumococcal vaccine uptake across county-level social vulnerability is important for identifying geographic disparities and informing strategies to increase vaccine uptake and reduce the incidence of pneumococcal disease (PD). Using a retrospective coho...

Incidence of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in US Children by Risk Group, 1998-2023

Abstract Background Children with risk conditions are vulnerable to invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and are targeted for routine and supplemental pneumococcal vaccination. This study aimed to quantify the incidence of IPD in US children by risk group since PCV introduction. M...