About VaxTeen

OUR MISSION

Reversing the decline in vaccinations by encouraging teens and young adults to take responsibility for their own health.

VaxTeen communicates directly with teenagers and young adults to counter this dangerous tide of misinformation, encouraging those who are unvaccinated to catch up on vaccines as soon as they can by helping them find out what immunizations they need and how they can get them.

Kelly is a second-year undergraduate student at Stanford University from Los Angeles, California. At the age of sixteen, she was inspired to start VaxTeen after realizing that significant barriers prevented many of her peers from accessing vaccinations. She founded VaxTeen in hopes of providing a reliable and easy-to-understand source to answer their questions. The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic a year later further highlighted the necessity of VaxTeen, which educates young people about the importance of vaccines and empowers them to make well-informed decisions about their health.

Kelly serves as a member of UNITY Consortium and the California HPV Vaccination Roundtable (of which VaxTeen is a stakeholder organization).

Kelly also worked as an intern in the Division of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, focusing on researching and improving vaccine policy.

Alex Singer is a rising senior at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, California. She is interested in public health policy and the psychology of misinformation, particularly as it relates to vaccine misinformation disseminated on social media. She serves on the Unity Consortium Teen Advisory Council, and is currently working at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.