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Vaccines are a notable public health achievement, which have helped to significantly reduce childhood morbidity, mortality and disease...
Oct 24, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO recently published, From the Field: Improving Immunization Coverage and Services at the Local Level, a compendium of stories...
Oct 01, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
CDC released results from the 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which...
Sep 12, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) seasonal flu vaccination campaign materials are available to...
Aug 28, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
This issue of MMWR Recommendations and Reports summarizes the latest data on influenza vaccination and lays out CDC and the Advisory...
Aug 22, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
American College of Physicians (ACP) is pleased to announce the following webinars: Webinar 1: Routine Immunization of People Living...
Aug 08, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
On August 1, as a kick-off to National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), NACCHO hosted Talking About Vaccines: Lessons Learned from...
Aug 02, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
Proper vaccine administration is critical for ensuring that vaccines are both safe and effective. To help health professionals with...
Jul 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
CDC has launched a pneumococcal vaccination app, PneumoRecs VaxAdvisor, for iOS and Android mobile devices. Take the confusion and...
Vaccines are a notable public health achievement, which have helped to significantly reduce childhood morbidity, mortality and disease outbreaks. Although science supports their effectiveness, misinformation and hesitancy still exists. In September, APHA hosted a webinar to explore effective strategies to address vaccine hesitancy and misinformation.
NACCHO recently published, From the Field: Improving Immunization Coverage and Services at the Local Level, a compendium of stories from the field that highlight local health department (LHD) immunization initiatives.
CDC released results from the 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which provides the latest estimates of vaccination rates among adolescents in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) seasonal flu vaccination campaign materials are available to assist health professionals in communicating about the importance of vaccination. This digital toolkit includes details on events/activities, sample social media and newsletter content, graphics, web assets, and media prep material. This material is downloadable,...
This issue of MMWR Recommendations and Reports summarizes the latest data on influenza vaccination and lays out CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations related to influenza vaccination. CDC recommends that everyone age 6 months and older should get a flu vaccine every year, with rare exceptions. There are many different types […]
American College of Physicians (ACP) is pleased to announce the following webinars: Webinar 1: Routine Immunization of People Living with HIV: Why, What and How Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:00 AM Eastern – Register Now Faculty presenter: Andrew B Trotter, MD MPH Recognizing that people living with HIV (PLHIV) have higher rates of vaccine […]
On August 1, as a kick-off to National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), NACCHO hosted Talking About Vaccines: Lessons Learned from CDC Research with Parents and Healthcare Professionals. During this webinar, Allison Fisher (CDC/NCIRD) and Elizabeth Ryan (Northrop Grumman-TEKsystems Contractor, CDC/NCIRD) presented key findings from CDC’s communication research with pregnant women, parents of...
Proper vaccine administration is critical for ensuring that vaccines are both safe and effective. To help health professionals with this, CDC now has an e-Learn on vaccine administration. Vaccine administration errors happen more often than you might think. Of the average 36,000 reports received annually by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), about 1,500 […]
CDC has launched a pneumococcal vaccination app, PneumoRecs VaxAdvisor, for iOS and Android mobile devices. Take the confusion and stress out of interpreting pneumococcal vaccine recommendations. Use this app to quickly and easily determine which pneumococcal vaccines a patient needs and when. Simply enter a patient’s age and note if the patient has specific underlying […]
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