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Benedict I. Truman, MD, MPH, Timothy Tinker, DrPH, MPH, Elaine Vaughan, PhD, Bryan K. Kapella, MD, Marta Brenden, MSW, Celine V. Woznica, DrPH, Elena Rios, MD, MSPH and Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH

Benedict I. Truman is with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Bryan K. Kapella is with the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Timothy Tinker is with Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA. Elaine Vaughan is with the University of California, Irvine. Marta Brenden is with the Division of Refugee Assistance, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and Families, Washington, DC. At the time of the study, Celine V. Woznica was with the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights, Chicago, IL. Elena Rios is with the National Hispanic Medical Association, Washington, DC. Maureen Lichtveld is with Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

Correspondence: Reprint requests should be sent to Benedict I. Truman, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Office of the Chief of Public Health Practice, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, Mailstop E-67, Atlanta, GA 30333 (e-mail: btruman{at}cdc.gov).

Some immigrants and refugees might be more vulnerable than other groups to pandemic influenza because of preexisting health and social disparities, migration history, and living conditions in the United States.

Vulnerable populations and their service providers need information to overcome limited resources, inaccessible health services, limited English proficiency and foreign language barriers, cross-cultural misunderstanding, and inexperience applying recommended guidelines. To increase the utility of guidelines, we searched the literature, synthesized relevant findings, and examined their implications for vulnerable populations and stakeholders.

Here we summarize advice from an expert panel of public health scientists and service program managers who attended a meeting convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 1 and 2, 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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