Data-driven approach to increasing vaccine acceptance in the US

For more than 50 years, NFID has been educating and engaging the public, communities and health care professionals about disease prevention and treatment, including the importance of staying up to date on all recommended vaccines. “NFID and our partners share a commitment to helping protect individuals and communities from the potentially serious complications of vaccine-preventable diseases, and we also share concerns that immunization coverage rates are lagging behind U.S. public health goals ” said Executive Director and CEO of NFID. Marla Dalton, PE, CAE. For example, flu vaccination rates have hovered around 50% for years, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation for annual flu vaccination for everyone six months and older since 2010.

“Our goal is to identify immunization attitudes, behaviors, and barriers to accelerate systemic progress by empowering changemakers to target messaging and resources to specific groups in communities across the U.S.,” said Fraym CEO and co-founder Ben Leo.

Partner organizations will play a key role in comprehensively and detailed mapping of the drivers of vaccine uptake in the US to transform the way public health stakeholders align vaccine messaging and service delivery. “NFID is excited to expand our work with partners advancing immunization coverage at the state and local level,” said NFID President-elect Jeffery A. Goad, PharmD, MPH. “With the leadership, experience and input of partners, NFID aims to put data in the hands of local and state health departments and immunization advocates who can use it to help increase immunization rates.” As part of NFID’s commitment to building vaccine confidence and ensuring healthcare equity, the NFID Board of Directors has approved funding for this pilot project.

About the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Founded in 1973, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to educating and engaging the public, communities, and health care professionals about infectious diseases throughout the entire lifespan. NFID has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator and has earned a Platinum Transparency Seal from Candid/GuideStar. For more information, visit www.nfid.org.

About Fraim
Fraym is the leading global provider of geospatial data for understanding population dynamics. Governments and organizations around the world rely on Fraym data to make strategic and operational decisions while addressing challenges such as inequality and insecurity, climate vulnerability, public health and more. The company’s advanced AI/ML models are the first to generate high-resolution insights about human characteristics, behaviors and attitudes at the sub-neighborhood level and make them commercially available at scale. For more information, visit https://fraym.io/.

About the Association of Vaccination Managers
The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) is a nonprofit membership association composed of the directors of the 64 federally funded state, territorial, and local public health immunization programs. AIM is committed to working with its partners across the country to reduce, eliminate or eradicate vaccine-preventable diseases. AIM also works to ensure the success of its members by providing support for their programming interests. Since 1999, AIM has enabled collaboration among immunization program managers to effectively control vaccine-preventable diseases and improve immunization coverage in the U.S. and affiliated territories. For more information, visit www.immunizationmanagers.org.

About the National Association of County and City Health Officials
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) represents more than 3,300 local government health departments. These city, county, metropolitan, county and tribal departments work every day to protect and promote the health and well-being of all the people in their communities. For more information, visit www.naccho.org.

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SOURCE National Infectious Disease Foundation