Dalton puts NFID in the big leagues
- May 16, 2014 |
- WILLIAM EHART
Lifelong baseball fan uses her sport to promote vaccinations Dalton What could be more American than baseball, Mom, apple pie and … flu shots? "Buy me some peanuts and Crack-er Jack / I don't care if flu never comes back / Let me root, root, root for the vac-cine …" Could work. OK, Marla Dalton, executive director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, had nothing to do with those lyrics. But she has had everything to do with a three-year old program to promote vaccination at major-league ballparks. "I've been a baseball fan my whole life, from the days of the 1969 [Miracle] Mets," Dalton told CEO Update. So far, the public service announcements only… Read More