2025 Bull’s-Eye Award Winner Minnesota: Becoming a Vaccine Advocate Training
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) created and piloted a vaccine advocate training, modeled on Voices for Vaccines’ Trusted Messenger training.
Minnesota: Assisting Childcare Centers with Required Immunization Reporting
MDH conducted a pilot project to determine if childcare centers would be interested in using the MIIC, Minnesota’s IIS.
Minnesota: Non-Traditional Minnesota Vaccination Locations
The Minnesota Department of Health utilized child-centric locations to host COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
Minnesota: Gift Cards and College Scholarships for Child Vaccination
The Kids Deserve a Shot program was expanded to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in children ages 5 to 11.
Minnesota: Using a Novel Partnership to Measure Vaccine Uptake in Populations of Interest
This 2022 Bull's-Eye award winner aimed to develop partnerships between databases to measure vaccine uptake in populations of interest.
Minnesota: Using a Novel Partnership to Measure Vaccine Uptake in Populations of Interest
MDH partnered with the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium (EHRC) to obtain more complete understanding of the need for COVID-19 vaccine availability.
Minnesota: Update on Outreach to the Somali Community
This presentation was presented at the 2019 Great Lakes regional meeting and provides an overview of outreach efforts with the Somali community since 2017. Four survey methods are described, and a list of questions parents can ask providers is included…
Minnesota: Updating Vaccine Language on High School Sports Physical Form
The Minnesota Immunization Program worked with the Minnesota State High School League to update language related to vaccines on their standard pre-participation sports physical examination form.
Minnesota: Immunization-related Education and Outreach for Pharmacies
The Minnesota Immunization Program in the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) created pharmacy-specific educational resources to promote immunization best practices.
Minnesota: MMR Vaccine Hesitancy Among Somali Minnesotans
The Minnesota Department of Health conducted outbreak activities and extended community interventions during their measles outbreak that began in April of 2017. Most of the cases were within the Somali-Minnesotan community and could have been attributed to declines in MMR…