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By Celina Kareiva, Senior Communications Associate Posted in BID Learning Network (BLN), People, Policies & Practices Photo: PATH/Paul Nindi. BLN members visit a health facility in Lusaka during an in-person meeting before COVID-19. The peer learning network has taken on new importance for its virtual spaces amid an evolving global pandemic. On...

Juliette KayyemBelfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy SchoolFaculty Director, Homeland Security Project, Harvard UniversityFaculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative, Harvard UniversityGeorges C. Benjamin, MDExecutive Director, American Public Health Association Virtual Breakout SessionsLocal Response, Local SolutionsOrigi...

View this email in your browserDate: 27 May 2020 Gavi, UNICEF and WHO call for joint effort to deliver immunization and proceed with campaigns safelyTo address the growing impact of COVID-19 on immunization service delivery, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO leadership highlighted the importance of maintaining efforts tosafely deliver routine...

Hello, This email contains an AART User Group reminder and AIRA's final comments on the National Quality Forum (NQF) immunization-related measures.Reminder: Register Today for the May AART User Group Mini-Series As a reminder, the next session of the AART User Group Mini-Series will be Wednesday, May 27 at 4:00pm ET. This session will b...

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser Issue 1497: May 26, 2020 Ask the Experts: IAC Experts Answer Your Questions about Vaccination During the Pandemic and about Tdap Recommendations As a thank-you to our loyal IAC Express readers, we periodically publish special editions such as this one, providing you with new and updated...

Hello, A new resource, Vaccine Code Set Considerations: If Only It Were Rocket Science, is now published on the AIRA website. This document provides a general overview of vaccine code sets and also briefly describes how code sets are used in support of multiple and varied IIS functions, including electronic data exchange with EHRs and other he...

Hello, We know many of you saw the mass vaccination information that came out in the CDC IIS Information Brief this morning, and we’ve already gotten many questions from our members about what further information AIRA has on the mass vaccination tool CDC referred to in the brief. The short answer is that we don’t have further details on the tool, a...

Dear AIRA Community, Due to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, it is with heavy hearts that we announce that the AIRA National Meeting, scheduled for August 11 – 13, 2020 in Portland, will be postponed until 2021. Out of concern for the health and safety of our attendees, employees, and local communities — and in line with recent government orders in...

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Issue 1496: May 20, 2020 TOP STORIESIAC launches Repository of Resources for Maintaining Immunization during COVID-19 Pandemic CDC publishes "Decline in Child Immunization Coverage during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Michigan Care Improvement Registry, May 2016–May 2020" in MMWR Early Re...

A Healthy Community is a More Resilient Community22 schools and community-based organizations and their partners have been working to improve the resilience of 245 communities by strengthening food systems, increasing availability of safe outdoor spaces, and promoting wellness policies and practices in schools, worksites, hospitals, and community o...

Greetings Colleagues,

The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) is proud to introduce and release the newly developed guide Patient Status in Immunization Information Systems.

AIRA leveraged a community-informed approach to examine implementation barriers and challenges to develop recommendations for patient status management in an IIS. The main purpose of the guide is to bridge the gap between currently published guidance on patient status and its actual implementation by IIS. This guide offers practical guidelines for providers, public health entities, and IIS to use in implementing and managing patient status. Challenges and recommendations related to IIS functionality, ease of use, implementation, and policy are described for both provider and geographic jurisdiction level issues. A secondary purpose of the guide is to address the issue of denominator inflation experienced by many IIS.

The primary audiences for the guide include IIS managers, IIS staff with responsibility for data quality, and Immunization program staff that work with providers, such as in Vaccines for Children (VFC) and quality improvement work. The document may also be valuable to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Immunization Program Managers, IIS vendors, EHR vendors, jurisdiction-specific information technology staff, national organizations supporting IIS, health care providers, and other partners and policy makers.

A community webinar was conducted on October 28 to introduce this guide and the recorded link can be found by using the “webinars” filter in the AIRA repository.

If you have questions regarding this new guide or webinar, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Nichole Lambrecht, MSc, RN-BSN, CPN | Sr. Project Manager
American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
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Hello,

This email contains a request for information announcement and AIRA Members and Partners Meeting information.

Request for Information

AIRA is initiating a Request for Information (RFI) to invite interested agencies and firms to submit details about their business. AIRA will use the information gathered during this RFI process to identify the organization it will contract with to improve the organization and usability of its website, www.immregistries.org. Detailed information can be found here.

AIRA Members and Partners Meeting

The next AIRA Members and Partners bimonthly meeting is on Monday, November 18 at 2 p.m. ET. You'll find the agenda attached. As a reminder, a webinar component has been added to these meetings and the webinar information, along with dialing information, is included below. Recordings of past meetings can be found in the AIRA repository.

Join Webex Meeting
Meeting number: 739 220 308
Meeting password: membership

Join by Phone
Dialing Information: 1-800-326-0013
Passcode: 1670187#

Thank you,

Brittany Gyer | Administrative Coordinator
American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
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Main: 202.552.0208 | Direct: 202.552.5748 | www.immregistries.org

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96 Polio News February 2020View this email in your browser or download PDFFebruary 2020POLIO NEWSDear TechNet members,Commitment and a sense of community continue to define the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, from the highest decision-making bodies to frontline health workers around the world. This month, the UN Secr...

Hello, Please see the following Information Request from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. If you are willing to share information, please reply directly to this email and include contact information for follow-up. INFORMATION REQUESTEDNYC would like to know if other jurisdictions have an electronic VFC enrollment process OR a dual e...

15 May 2020, Vol. 95, No. 20, pp. 29–228 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 209 Dracunculiasis eradication: global surveillance summary, 2019Download 15 mai 2020, Vol. 95, No. 20, pp. 209-228 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 209 Éradication de la dracunculose: bilan de la surveillance mondiale, 2019Télécharger...

Posted in BID Learning Network (BLN), News, Policies & Practices, Products Photo: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Riccardo Gangale. A nurse administers vaccines to children at the Ngarenaro Health Center in Arusha, Tanzania. The COVID-19 pandemic is putting a strain on health systems worldwide. The increasing demand on health facilities and...

*|MC:SUBJECT|*13 December 2019, Vol. 94, No. 50, pp. 601–612 Now online IN THIS ISSUE 601 Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: numbers of people treated in 2018Download 13 décembre 2019, Vol. 94, No. 50, pp. 601-612 Maintenant en ligne DANS CE NUMÉRO 601 Schistosomiase et géohelminthiases: nombre de...

IAC Express #1495 - Your weekly immunization news service: MenB Vaccination Honor Roll and moreEmail not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Issue 1495: May 13, 2020 TOP STORIESCDC publishes “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Pediatric Vaccine Ordering and Administration—United States, 2020" in MMWR Earl...

Hello, AIRA Members –You may have heard that the National Quality Forum (NQF) is currently considering two immunization-related measures. The NQF Prevention and Population Health Standing Committee reviewed the Prenatal Immunization Status (PRS) and the Adult Immunization Status (AIS) measures for endorsement consideration. The PRS measure h...

IAC Express #1494 - Special Edition: Routine Vaccine Orders PlummetEmail not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Issue 1494: May 11, 2020 Special Edition: Routine Vaccine Orders PlummetCDC publishes “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Pediatric Vaccine Ordering and Administration—United States, 2020" in MMWR E...