Addressing Vaccine Confidence, Hesitancy, and Uptake
Vaccines are one of the most successful and cost-effective ways to protect against infectious diseases and death. Local health departments (LHDs) play a critical role in providing and connecting people in their communities with immunization services and counseling.
With support from the CDC, NACCHO is collaborating with LHDs to address vaccine confidence, hesitancy, and uptake.
- Increasing Vaccine Confidence Project: Through the Local Public Health Initiatives to Increase Vaccine Confidence project, awarded LHDs identify pockets of low vaccination within their communities, implement pro-vaccination information campaigns, and conduct strategic planning to identify solutions and processes to address vaccine equity.
- Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Project: Through the Equipping LHDs to Address Vaccine Hesitancy project, NACCHO provides awarded LHDs a staff consultant dedicated to implementing efforts to address vaccine hesitancy in the jurisdiction.
- Increasing Vaccine Uptake Project: In the Supporting Local Health Departments to Increase Vaccine Uptake through COVID-19 project, NACCHO funds LHD demonstration sites to identify and implement strategies to maintain and increase immunization coverage levels of routinely recommended vaccines, including influenza, as well as protect vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NACCHO developed these resources to assist LHDs in addressing vaccine hesitancy and increasing vaccine confidence and uptake in their communities.
This training was based on the tools and resources developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as a part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives Initiative's Equity Action Lab. The model was adapted by NACCHO to focus on increasing vaccine confidence with a health equity lens.
These resources include stories, tools, and campaigns that LHDs have developed that we hope others can utilize to develop strategies that address vaccine confidence, hesitancy, and uptake in their own communities.
Community Health Program
Katherine Waters
Director, Immunization
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Programs
Robin Mowson
Senior Program Analyst, Immunization
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Community Health Program
Amy Maxson
Senior Program Analyst
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Community Health Program
Victoria Thompson
Senior Program Analyst, Immunization
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Community Health Program
Victoria Decea
Program Analyst, Immunization
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Community Health Program
Amiris Roberson
Programs Analyst
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Communications
Nicholas Holmes
Communication Specialist
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Community Health Program
Xander Hazel-Groux
Senior Program Assistant, Immunization
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Community Health Program
Eryn Greaney
Project Manager
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