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Our members are often featured on TV news, Public Radio shows, and more! They’re telling their personal stories about how vaccines benefit their families and communities.

See below for GFV recent media coverage.

For media inquiries, please reach out to us at hello@grandparentsforvaccines.org.

Media Appearances and Interviews

Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper

They remember a world without vaccines.

The Relentless School Nurse

Grandparents for Vaccines Featured in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper

American Public Health Association

APHA’s 2026 NPHW Forum – Ready. Set. Action!

Medical Economics

Health care epidemic of misinformation is rooted in problem of trust, experts say

Eye on Cleveland

How Grandparents Are Rebuilding Trust in Vaccines

The Relentless School Nurse

More Than a Spoonful of Sugar

The Colin McEnroe Show CT Public Radio

What do rising measles cases say about public health and trust?

Mt. Sinai Partnership

Grandparents for Vaccines Receives $250,000 Grant from

Cleveland-Based Mt. Sinai Health Foundation

The Bulwark

“Just Measles” Left Her Sister Disabled for Life (w/ Therese Vogel)

The Relentless School Nurse

There Is Nothing “Just” About Measles

Cincinnati.com  The Enquirer

School vaccine rates are falling; It’s personal for these 2 women

Eye On Cleveland Grandparents Unite Against Vaccine Misinformation
Iowa City Press Citizen Grandparents for Vaccines

The Bulwark

Meet the horrified grandparents fighting for vaccines

Can It Happen Here?

Listen to the old timers

 

The Oregonian

Readers Respond: Measles can have lifelong effects

Eye On Cleveland

March Features Focus on Vaccines

You Can Know Things What life was like before vaccinations

The Gazette

We can’t forget vaccines save lives

25 Live at Home

Grandparents for Vaccines Interview With Iowa State Leader Deb Vandergaast

The Journal of the San Juan Islands

Grandparents for Vaccines: Letter

Rutgers School of Public Health

Kimberly Boller Named Inaugural Executive Director of Grandparents for Vaccines

Contagion Live

With Endemic Measles on the Horizon, a Future With Greater Morbidity, Mortality and Healthcare Costs Seem Inevitable

Cleveland Jewish News

Cleveland retired pediatrician founds Grandparents for Vaccines

The Wake Weekly Combatting societal amnesia about disease and vaccines

Dayton Daily News

Vaccine education help available

Common Dreams Freedom, Responsibility, and The Lessons Polio Taught Our Generation

Cape May County Herald

Schoolchildren Need to be Vaccinated

South Florida Sun Sentinel

Grandparents must forcefully defend vaccines: Opinion

The Relentless School Nurse

When Voice Meets Structure: The Next Chapter for Grandparents for Vaccines

Case Alumni Association

New and Urgent Lecture

GFV Press Release 2/10/2026

Kimberly Boller Named Inaugural Executive Director of Grandparents for Vaccines

Yahoo News

Need another reason to vaccinate against measles? The virus can cause immune amnesia

Naples Daily News

I am a Florida state leader for Grandparents for Vaccines

 

Relentless School Nurse

Measles Did Not Suddenly Appear. It Has Been Slowly Accelerating.

NC Newsline

Pediatrician Dr. Arthur Lavin on the spread of measles in the Carolinas

South Carolina Daily Gazette

Measles can cause immune system amnesia, research says

NC Newsline

Need another reason to vaccinate against measles? The virus can cause immune amnesia

 

 

NC Newsline Audio

Listen to Dr. Arthur Lavin’s interview with Rob Schofield from NC News

Gulf Coast Life

Florida Health Professionals organize against public health concerns.

North Dakota Healthy Foundation

This group of concerned grandparents is changing the vaccine conversation

Citizen Times

Opinion: US Health, CDC rollback on vaccine recommendations dangerous

 

 Relentless School Nurse

The Relentless School Nurse: Protecting Children Has Never Been Optional. Ask a Grandparent

North Carolina Newsline

As measles cases tick higher, many North Carolina counties could see outbreaks

Forbes

Measles surges in the United States as public health falters

CBS Channel 19 Cleveland

Grandparents for Vaccines create national push for vaccines

 

GFV Press Release 1/20/2026

Grandparents sound alarm as measles outbreaks spread among unvaccinated children

GFV Press Release 1/5/2026

Grandparents for Vaccines opposes federal rollback of childhood vaccine

Relentless School Nurse

Grandparents for Vaccines is a Public Health Win!

Your Local Epidemiologist

20 Public Health Wins in 2025

 

Ohio Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics

Announcing Grandparents for Vaccines, A new voice to protect our grandchildren!

OPB/NPR
Think Out Loud

Oregon grandparents share lived experiences to promote vaccinations for preventable illnesses

 


Forbes

Why these grandparents are speaking out on vaccines

 

 

Rachel Madow Show

Why grandparents must lead on vaccines

 

 

FOX 23 NOW

“Grandparents for Vaccines” program aims to boost childhood immunization rates

 

 

WKYC Channel 3

Grandparents for Vaccines founder explains mission on 3news

Ideastream Public Radio

Drop in childhood vaccination rates prompts grandparents to advocate for immunization

 S7 Podcast

Grandparents for Vaccines “United to Protect”

The Progressive

Why Grandparents Must Lead on Vaccines

 

Relentless School Nurse

Once upon a time when there were no vaccines

 

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Vaccinating your children can save their lives and others: Roxanne B. Sukol

 

12 KFVS First Alert

Heartland health department partners with Grandparents for Vaccines

 

The Progressive

Grandparents for Vaccines group gains traction

 

NPR WFYI Indianapolis

If vaccine data doesn’t convince you, this group hopes a grandmother’s story will

HealthCetera Podcast

Grandparents for Vaccines

 

KGW

Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations

 

Relentless School Nurse

The urgent call from grandparents to protect our children with vaccines