ABOUT NVIC
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is a national, non-profit educational organization founded in 1982. The oldest and largest consumer organization advocating the institution of vaccine safety and informed consent protections in the mass vaccination system, NVIC is responsible for launching the vaccine safety and informed consent movement in America in the early 1980's.

OUR MISSION
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is dedicated to the prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to defending the informed consent ethic. As an independent clearinghouse for information on diseases and vaccines, NVIC does not promote the use of vaccines and does not advise against the use of vaccines. We support the availability of all preventive health care options, including vaccination, and the right of consumers to make educated, voluntary health care choices.

OUR WORK
NVIC provides assistance to those who have suffered vaccine reactions; promotes research to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness, as well as to identify factors which place individuals at high risk for suffering vaccine reactions; and monitors vaccine research, development, regulation, policy-making and legislation. NVIC works to protect the right of citizens to exercise the human right to informed consent to medical interventions which carry a risk of injury or death for themselves or their children, including vaccination.

Barbara Loe Fisher is Co-Founder and President of the National Vaccine Information Center.  Complete Bio

Kathi Williams is Co-Founder and Vice President.

Vicky Debold, Ph.D., RN, is Director of Patient Safety. Complete Bio

Patty Healy is Director of Counseling.

HISTORY OF NVIC

The non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was founded in 1982 by parents whose children were injured or died following DPT vaccine reactions. Located in Vienna, Virginia, this charitable organization is totally publicly supported by donations from citizens and receives no corporate, federal or state grants. NVIC is funded by annual memberships, grants from philanthropic foundations and donations made by individuals for information that NVIC researches, produces and makes available to the public.

NVIC's co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. This historic law acknowledged the suffering of the vaccine injured and their families and the need for vaccine safety protections in the mass vaccination system. The law set up a federal vaccine injury compensation program as well as included legal requirements for vaccine providers to:

• (1) give parents vaccine benefit and risk information before their children are vaccinated;
• (2) keep written records of vaccine manufacturer names and lot numbers for each vaccination given;
• (3) enter serious health problems following vaccination into a child's permanent medical record; and
• (4) report serious health problems following vaccination to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).

The law preserved the right for vaccine injured persons to bring a lawsuit in the court system if federal compensation is denied or is not sufficient. By 2008, the U.S. Court of Claims had awarded nearly $2 billion dollars to vaccine victims for their catastrophic vaccine injuries.

NVIC works to raise government standards for vaccine licensure and policymaking. In 1996, NVIC realized a major goal when, after 14 years of public advocacy, the FDA finally licensed a purified pertussis vaccine (DTaP vaccine) for American babies. In 1999, the live virus polio vaccine (OPV) was replaced by the inactivated polio vaccine and vaccine strain paralytic polio cases were eliminated in America. Co-founders and members of NVIC have represented consumers on the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine's Vaccine Safety Forum, the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, the Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative and the Consumers United for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Cochrane Collaboration – U.S.

In 1989, the organization held an International Scientific Workshop attended by pediatric neurologists, epidemiologists, neuroimmunologists, molecular biologists, bacteriologists and neuropathologists to evaluate the neurological complications of pertussis and the whole cell pertussis vaccine. In 1997, NVIC held the First International Public Conference on Vaccination, which brought together more than 500 doctors, scientists, health officials, lawyers, ethicists, journalists and parents from 34 states and five countries to the U.S. Capitol to present new scientific data about vaccines and diseases and discuss the biological mechanism of vaccine-induced injury, death and chronic illness. NVIC also held the Second and Third International Public Conferences on Vaccination in 2000 and 2002.

NVIC has long advocated that well-designed, independent, on-going scientific investigation must be conducted to define the various biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death, identify genetic and other biological high risk factors and evaluate the chronic, long-term effects of multiple vaccination on individuals and the public health. NVIC is calling for government funding of independent researchers without conflicts of interest with vaccine manufacturers or public health agencies to investigate the reported links between vaccines and neurological and autoimmune disorders, including learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, autism, asthma, diabetes, otitis media, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Crohn's disease (intestinal bowel disorders), chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's, cancer, AIDS, Gulf War syndrome, personality disorders and other autoimmune and brain dysfunction which has been associated with vaccination. NVIC also supports the institution of an independent public oversight mechanism to monitor vaccine research, development, regulation, policymaking and promotion by federal and state public health agencies, as well as independent, non-governmental monitoring of adverse events associated with vaccination.

Since 1982, NVIC has provided information about diseases and vaccines to hundreds of thousands of parents, health care providers and other individuals who have contacted our organization. We disseminate a free bi-weekly E-News report on breaking news about vaccination with commentary written by NVIC President Barbara Loe Fisher that is also archived on a word-searchable blog (www.vaccineawakening.blogspot.com). Vaccine reaction reports can be posted with photos on NVIC’s International Memorial for Vaccine Victims (www.vaccinememorial.org).

This website, which is Google searchable, also provides you with links to other websites and resources which can provide you with more information about infectious diseases, vaccines, and new research into healing therapies for vaccine related illness and disability. We hope the information provided to you on this website will help you make an informed vaccination decision for yourself or for someone you care about.