JULY 12, 2023

Don’t forget to register for the AIRA Members and Partners meeting next week, Monday, July 17 from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. The AIRA Members and Partners quarterly meetings provide important updates from AIRA and partner organizations. They are a great way to get a high-level overview of the activities going on within the IIS and immunization community.

Members and Partners meetings are held on Zoom and are recorded. We hope you can join us!

AIRA members can submit and review information requests—a circulation of questions to and answers from the community. 

Information requests are viewable only by individual members and individuals affiliated with member and partner organizations. Recent information requests can be found by using the “Information Requests” filter in the AIRA repository. Just log in to view these valuable resources! If you have any questions, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The New York State Immunization Information System (NYSIIS) team is interested in learning what platforms other IIS use to train their users. NYSIIS currently offers formal user training in the form of recorded Webex webinars, posted on the public-facing NYSDOH website. From the NYSIIS training page on its public site, users can select the specific training they would like to view and are then prompted by a required registration page before the video will buffer and play. This registration page is critical not only because it tracks usage but also because the registration fields are used in IIS user setup. The current platform presents these trainings using a file type known to cause issues, and it can be glitchy when users try to view them. If any jurisdictions are willing to share the platforms they use for training their users, NYSIIS would greatly appreciate it.

The platform must:

• Allow a training link to be posted to a public-facing website with a streaming option
• Prompt users with a required registration page before viewing the training

If you are willing to share information, please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Wednesday, July 19, and don’t forget to include your contact information for follow-up. 

The Illinois Department of Health has begun to develop a Tableau training plan for new immunization employees. It is searching for information regarding:

• Documented staff training plans for new immunization staff in the area of data visualization (specifically Tableau)
• Training components that expand outside the immunization division 

If you are willing to share information, please reach out to the Illinois Department of Health at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Wednesday, July 19, and don’t forget to include your contact information for follow-up. 

The Wisconsin Department of Health is seeking information about COVID-19 data and influenza administration data visualization. Have any jurisdictions created data visualizations for respiratory vaccine data, or do they have any plans to create COVID-19 and influenza dashboards? If so, what metrics are jurisdictions including? 

If you are willing to share information, please reach out to the Wisconsin Department of Health at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Wednesday, August 2, and don’t forget to include your contact information for follow-up. 

Complete the Immunization Integration Program’s (IIP) awareness survey by Friday, July 21! This survey is aimed at assessing the impact of the IIP’s published resources on the IIS community.

Your insights and experience are extremely valuable in evaluating the impact of the Collaborative’s published resources. Your participation will help shape our implementation strategies and future initiatives.

Should you have any questions or require further support, please don’t hesitate to email the IIP team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Want to learn more about how other jurisdictions are improving IIS data quality? Join us for the next AIRA Discovery Session on Monday, July 24 from 4 to 5 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature two presentations from IIS jurisdictions, including:

• Tracking and Outreach for Improving Data Quality of Mpox Doses in Texas from Prageet Sachdev, Texas Immunization Registry
• Linking Birth Records from Hospitals with Records from Vitals from Diane McLeod and Baskar Krishnamoorthy, Florida Department of Health

Come with questions for our brief Q&A at the end of the webinar. 

Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email which contains links to add the meeting to your calendar. 

If you’re unable to attend, this session will be recorded and available in the AIRA repository.

In the next edition of SnapShots, we want to showcase your work! Recently, we released the latest edition of SnapShots recapping the #AIRA2023 National Meeting and updated resources from the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII).
 
It’s easy to submit an article for consideration! Simply send your article to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by July 27 for inclusion in the September edition of SnapShots.

Hello!

We are researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Together with our research team, we are reaching out to people like yourself to see if they would be interested in helping us evaluate a web-based tool designed to facilitate more effective communication about vaccines online. 

Participation would consist of:

• Completing two 15- to 20-minute surveys (one at the start of the study and one at the end of the study)  
• Trying the web-based tool over a period of four weeks when you are using your social media 
• Optional participation in a small, one-hour focus group session about your experience (after completion of the second survey)  

We will show you how to use the tool and reach out to you via text messaging during the four-week testing period to check if you have used it and get feedback to a couple of brief poll questions. The text messages will also include a link should you wish to journal about your experience during this time. Answering the poll questions and completing the journaling are optional. 

Participation is voluntary, and you can drop out of the study at any time. Modest compensation in the form of a visa gift card will be provided based on which activities (surveys, journaling, focus group) you complete.

To qualify for participation, you must be 18 years of age or older and have had at least one social media account open for six months or longer.  

If you have any questions about participating in the study, please contact our research team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please add the term “ARTT study” in the subject line, so your email reaches us most efficiently.

Thank you for your consideration of our request.

Sincerely, 
Dr. Angela Shen, ScD, MPH

Lead Investigator, ARTT Guide Evaluation
Visiting Scientist Vaccine Education Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Adjunct Associate Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Paul Offit, MD
Principal Investigator, ARTT Guide Evaluation
Director, Vaccine Education Center
Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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