To increase flu vaccination during the 2020-2021 flu season, DC used specific media outlets such as radio and social media. Part of DC's media campaign for flu vaccination was images with the tagline "Spread Love, Not the Flu" and a…
In recent years, Wisconsin local health departments (LHDs) have noticed a decline in the number adults seeking immunization services. This resulted in concern regarding community protection against vaccine preventable diseases as well as the ability for LHDs to retain their…
In New Jersey, estimated influenza vaccination rate for those ages 6 months and older was 48.1% for the 2017-2018 flu season. There has been little improvement to the rate over the past few years. Two factors that play into low…
Kentucky is currently experiencing the largest hepatitis A infection outbreak in recent history. The state average cases for the past five years is 19. From the outbreak declared in November 2017 to July 10, 2018 there have been 1,034 diagnosed…
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…
The Washington State Department of Health Office of Immunization and Child Profile provided funding to external partners to support development of HPV immunization campaign messages targeting two at-risk subpopulations of adolescents and young adults
The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Vaccine Preventable Disease Program, together with the Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey (PMCHNNJ), developed and implemented a multi-pronged adolescent immunization awareness initiative that includes an annual…
In 2015, New York State’s law changed to include a requirement for students entering grades 7 and 12 in NYS schools to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease. The immunization program needed to rapidly raise awareness of the new requirement among…
The Minnesota Immunization Program implemented an innovative data analysis method to examine coverage rates across social determinants of health to better target outreach activities. By linking race, ethnicity and parental birth country data from birth certificates with immunization data from…