Gavin Yamey: There are many benefits to giving the HPV vaccine to all adolescents boys and girls aged 11-12.

Gavin Yamey, Director at the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke University, recently tweeted:

“Vaccinate adolescent girls and boys.

There are many benefits to giving the HPV vaccine to all adolescent boys and girls aged 11-12.
I wish I’d been vaccinated at that age (the vaccine wasn’t around at the time); our son will get the vaccine when he turns 11.”

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Gavin Yamey is the Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health based in Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI). He is the Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health at DGHI and a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy in the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. Dr Yamey is Associate Director for Policy at DGHI. He is on the core faculty of the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy and affiliate faculty of Duke Science and Society. He is the Faculty Director for the Duke Global Policy (DGP) Program in Geneva, and leads the global health track in the DGP program. He is on the advisory board of the World Food Policy Center at Duke. He was the founding Senior Editor of PLOS Medicine.

Dr. Yamey has served as a commissioner on three previous Lancet commissions: the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He is currently a commissioner on the Lancet-SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, and he chairs the international advisory committee to the Lancet Commission on Global Hearing Loss. He co-chairs the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health’s Finance and Economics Working Group. He has written widely for popular media, including the Washington Post and USA Today. He has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals.