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.

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.