Respiratory Vaccine Recommendation Updates from the Past Year | APhA 2025
Jean-Venable Goode, BSPharm, PharmD, and Jeff Goad, PharmD, MPH, presented on the most notable vaccine updates from the past year and how they impact pharmacy practice.
In the past calendar year, there were several updates to immunization options and recommendations from vaccine experts on who should get which vaccines at the most opportune times. With a majority of these updates focusing on vaccines that protect against respiratory viruses and the complications they present, it’s crucial for pharmacists to stay knowledgeable on these updates and how they impact patient populations come respiratory virus season.
“What do we need to do across the health care system? It's really having immunization information systems. It's having funding for vaccines. It's looking at interoperability of the [electronic health record]. It's looking at, do we need more vaccine performance measures? So, it's really how we get vaccines from a delivery overall system and making that strategy so that we can improve rates,” said Jean-Venable Goode, BSPharm, PharmD, Professor and Director of PGY-1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Goode was joined by her colleague Jeff Goad, PharmD, MPH, Professor at Chapman University, at the American Pharmacists Association 2025 Annual Meeting and Exposition. In a presentation titled Boost, Scoot and Boogie: Annual Immunization Update, Goad and Goode provided expert insights on updates for 5 different respiratory-related vaccines: influenza, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV), and meningococcal.
They explored how pharmacists and public health experts should approach these updates, which are positioned to impact millions of patients across the country.
References
1. Goode JV, Goad J. Boost, Scoot and Boogie: Annual Immunization Update. Presented at: American Pharmacists Association 2025 Annual Meeting and Exposition; March 21-24, 2024; Nashville, TN.
2. CDC updates RSV vaccination recommendation for adults. News Release. CDC. June 26, 2024. Accessed March 31, 2025. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s-0626-vaccination-adults.html
3. Meningococcal vaccine recommendations. News Release. CDC. October 24, 2024. Accessed March 31, 2025. https://www.cdc.gov/meningococcal/hcp/vaccine-recommendations/index.html
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