ShotbyShot is a collection of stories from people who have been touched by vaccine-preventable diseases. With the success of vaccines, we don’t see diseases like meningitis, polio, and hepatitis as often as our parents or grandparents did, but the diseases still touch people in our own communities and cause a huge amount of suffering and death worldwide.

Vaccinate California provides an indispensable parent advocacy voice for immunizations in California. In the wake of the measles outbreak of 2014, a small group of dedicated parents, led by Leah Russin, Hannah Henry and Renee DiResta (among the many involved parents) founded Vaccinate California, the parent voice for immunizations, to push for better public health measures in California.