Purpose: The AIM Bull’s-Eye Award for Innovation and Excellence in Immunization
is presented to a city, county, state or territorial immunization program to
recognize excellence and/or innovation demonstrated through an outstanding
project or initiative. Three Bull’s-Eye Awards will be presented annually.
Award winners will be given an opportunity to showcase their projects by giving
presentations at the annual Immunization Program Managers meeting.
Eligible Candidates: Recipients of the AIM Bull’s-Eye Award must be
a city, county, state, territorial, tribal or other local immunization program,
although the winning effort may be conducted in concert with other partners.
A single project area may not receive more than one of the three awards in
a particular year.
Selection Criteria (100 points): Nominees will be judged based on their achievement
in these areas:
Background Description (25 points)
Brief Background on the immunization issues or problems addressed.
Goal/major purpose of the program/initiative.
Target population or audience.
Annual budget and funding sources.
Timing of the program/initiative.
Justification (75 points)
Innovation (25 points)
In what way is the project especially innovative? How is this project different
from projects with a similar intent? Is there a specific idea being tested
with this approach?
Effectiveness (25 points)
Does the project achieve its stated goals? What makes this program effective?
Is there data to support this conclusion? How is the program evaluated?
Potential for replication (25 points)
How can the program be replicated in other immunization programs? What
limitations/obstacles might other programs encounter if they replicated
the project?
Nomination Procedures: All submissions must be emailed to aim.bullseye@hotmail.com
by September 27, 2007, utilizing the format detailed on the 2007 AIM Bull’s-Eye
Award Nomination Form.
Selection Procedures: Nominations will be reviewed and a final selection made
by the AIM Bull’s-Eye Award Selection Committee. The selection committee
will consist of: members of the AIM Nominations/Award/Membership Committee,
a member of the AIM Executive Committee, a program manager representing the
general membership of AIM, a CDC/NCIRD representative and a representative
of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
Award Announcement: The three recipients of the AIM Bull’s-Eye Award
will be notified via phone call and/or email by October 8, 2007 in order to
allow time for them to prepare their presentations for the Program Managers
meeting. The recipients will receive a plaque at the Program Managers meeting
and a cash award of $100.00.
For more information: Contact Claire Hannan, AIM Executive Director at channan@astho.org or
301-424-6080.
