Winter 2024 IACW Quarterly Meeting
Thank you for joining us at IACW’s Winter 2024 Quarterly Meeting held on February 14, 2024! We are pleased to share the presentation slides from this meeting below.
If you would like to watch the recording of this meeting on YouTube, please click here.
Presentation slides:
- IACW & DOH Updates Slide Set
- Resources shared during presentation:
- Register for the National Conference for Immunization Coalitions & Partners (NCICP) at www.ncicp.org
- Register for Vax Expo 2024 at VaxExpo 2024 Tickets, Wed, May 1, 2024 at 7:00 AM | Eventbrite
- For further information about the WA-CHIP Immunization Learning Collaborative please refer to this flyer and contact mmartinez@wcaap.org
- If you would like to get involved or learn more about the HPV TaskForce contact Katie Trend from WA DOH at katie.treend@doh.wa.gov
- Resources shared during presentation:
- NASHI Immigrants Health Board Slide Set
- Multilingual Health Education Alliance Slide Set
- Resources shared during presentation:
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The Immunization Action Coalition of Washington (IACW) hosts quarterly coalition meetings that are open to Coalition members and participants who agree to support our mission and who work to strengthen immunization efforts in Washington State that are based on evidence-based guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
All coalition meetings are currently being held virtually.
IACW meetings are recorded and presentations are archived on our website. This page will be updated with slides and recording in the two weeks following the meeting conclusion.
Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- IACW Updates
- Honoring Kevy Wijaya
- Department of Of Health Updates
- Respiratory Season Subcommittee Report Out
- Break
- Presentation: NASHI Immigrants Health Board; Followed by Q&A
- Presentation: Multilingual Health Education Alliance
Q&A Section:
Audience question for NASHI Immigrants Health Board:
- Are there specific vaccines or vaccine-preventable diseases that elicit greater vaccine hesitancy within the Russian-Ukrainian speaking communities?
- “The table below includes vaccine status in Ukrainian children and adults upon arrival to WA. The data are from 2015-2021. The vaccine rate for all vaccines is lower compared to US and Washington rates for both adults and children. As a reference, the 2020-21 uptake of the MMR vaccine in Washington children was 94.4% compared to 75% for Ukrainian new arrivals. The table below is from a WA DOH EpiTrends article.
A helpful section of the EthnoMed article about Ukraine discusses vaccine confidence and low immunization rates in new arrivals. Here is an excerpt: There has been a drastic decline in immunizations in Ukraine since 2009 when the death of a child was incorrectly blamed on the measles-rubella vaccine, fueling anti-vaccine sentiments in the media and public distrust of vaccination (Khetsuriani et al., 2022b). The article is here: Ukrainian – EthnoMed”
– Sara Podczervinski, RN, MPH
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