This summary report on vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in Australia brings together the three most important national sources of routinely collected data on VPDs – notifications, hospitalisations and deaths – for all age groups for the three-year period 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018. This report, prepared by NCIRS, has been published as a supplement in the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal. NCIRS has published six of these reports since 2000.

This summary report on vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in Australia brings together the three most important national sources of routinely collected data on VPDs (notifications, hospitalisations and deaths) for all age groups for the four-year period January 2012 to December 2015.