Society guideline links: Immunizations in adults

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in children and adolescents".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Seasonal influenza vaccination".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in persons with HIV".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in solid organ transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Prevention of hepatitis B virus infection".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Vaccine position papers

●WHO: Recommendations for routine immunization – Summary tables (2024)

Canada

●National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Recommendations, statements, and updates

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Canadian Immunization Guide

●PHAC: Provincial and territorial routine vaccination programs for healthy, previously immunized adults (2024)

United States

●Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Vaccine-specific recommendations

•Adult immunization schedule – Recommendations for ages 19 years or older, United States (2025)

•Recommendations on immunization of health-care personnel (2011)

●Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention (BDRP) and Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS): Updated joint position statement on vaccines (2025)

●American College of Rheumatology (ACR): Guideline for vaccinations in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases, 2022 (published 2023)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Vaccine scheduler – Vaccine schedules in all countries in the EU/EEA

●ECDC: Public health guidance on varicella vaccination in the European Union (2015)

United Kingdom

●UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA): Guidance on vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status (2013, updated 2024)

●UKHSA: The Green Book – Immunisation against infectious disease (2013, updated 2024)

●UKHSA: The complete routine immunisation schedule (2014, updated 2024)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on vaccine uptake in the general population (2022)

India

●Indian Medical Association (IMA): Vaccination chart and immunisation guideline

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI): The Australian Immunisation Handbook