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Published: May 8, 2026 Courtesy of GSK Meeting with Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell over Zoom felt mildly surreal in the best way. To most people, they’re forever Claire and Phil Dunphy, the hilariously chaotic couple at the center of Modern Family, which ran from 2009 to 2020 and still holds a permanent spot in pop-culture history—and, frankly, in a lot of our hearts. True to form, they slipped right back into that familiar dynamic when they hopped on our afternoon call, seated side-by-side to talk about something decidedly less funny than their usual material: meningococcal disease, also known as meningitis. We were meeting to discuss their recent partnership with the pharmaceutical company GSK on its “Ask2BSure” public health campaign, which encourages parents to learn more about meningitis B and talk to their teens’ doctors about vaccination—especially before milestones like college move-in day, team sports and all the shared water bottles and close-quarter chaos that tend to come with adolescence.

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