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AH, NASHP, AIM and AIRA Project: Eliminating Barriers to Immunization through State Interagency and Community Collaboration

Award Number: NU66IP000684
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES(NCIRD)
OPDIV: CDC
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/29/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/28/2025

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AH, NASHP, AIM and AIRA Project: Eliminating Barriers to Immunization through State Interagency and Community Collaboration - BACKGROUND. Despite enhanced coverage through Medicaid and the VFC Program, low-income children, adolescents, adults, and pregnant people continue to have lower estimated vaccination rates than those above poverty level. While this disparity is influenced by many factors, interagency and multi-stakeholder collaboration with Medicaid programs can strengthen their ability to understand and address barriers to improving immunization rates among these vulnerable populations, including immunization information systems interoperability, provider scope of practice, enhanced communications efforts, among others. PURPOSE & APPROACH. AcademyHealth and NASHP, in potential partnership with AIM and AIRA, propose forming a new “Vaccine Information Sharing and Education Resource” Network (VISER Network). We will build on our previously CDC-funded project with two new proposed workstreams. This proposal aims to engage with Vaccine Access Cooperative (VAC) members, the Medicaid Medical Directors Network (MMDN), and other Medicaid stakeholders using a multi-faceted strategy to collaboratively improve immunization rates for all Medicaid covered lives. The VISER Learning Network: Building on momentum and partnerships generated through previous regional VAC meetings, the VISER Learning Network will engage cross-agency and multi-sector VAC participants in an ongoing learning network focused on disseminating evidence-based information, sharing promising and best practices to improve vaccination rates, and discussing emerging issues related to vaccine-preventable respiratory conditions. Leveraging this new coalition of partners, the VISER Learning Network will hold monthly calls to present timely information and share strategies to improve immunization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory conditions. Technical Assistance (TA) to Address Barriers to Information Exchange and Collaboration Between Medicaid Programs and Public Health: In-depth Policy Consultations: The project team will focus on addressing policy, technical, and organizational barriers to information exchange between state Medicaid information systems and IIS. Improving bi-directional information exchange between Medicaid and immunization programs is critical to understanding and addressing vaccination coverage and gaps and supporting IIS infrastructure through federal matching funds. The VISER Network will launch an opportunity for up to six cross-agency state teams (two cycles of three states each) to receive in-depth TA on specific goals related to connecting IIS and Medicaid programs to share immunization data between agencies and support IIS infrastructure.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	ACADEMY HEALTH	1666 K ST NW STE 1100	WASHINGTON	DC	20006	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Immunization Cooperative Agreements	01	2	4/17/2025	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2025	2023	ACADEMY HEALTH	1666 K ST NW STE 1100	WASHINGTON	DC	20006	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Immunization Cooperative Agreements	01	2	4/17/2025	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $200,000 )
2024	2024	ACADEMY HEALTH	1666 K ST NW STE 1100	WASHINGTON	DC	20006	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Immunization Cooperative Agreements	00	2	5/13/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$200,000
2024	2023	ACADEMY HEALTH	1666 K ST NW STE 1100	WASHINGTON	DC	20006	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Immunization Cooperative Agreements	02	1	5/15/2024	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2024	2023	ACADEMY HEALTH	1666 K ST NW STE 1100	WASHINGTON	DC	20006	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Immunization Cooperative Agreements	00	2	5/13/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	ACADEMY HEALTH	1666 K ST NW STE 1100	WASHINGTON	DC	20006	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Immunization Cooperative Agreements	01	1	12/26/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $200,000

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $200,000 )
2023	2023	ACADEMY HEALTH	1666 K ST NW STE 1100	WASHINGTON	DC	20006	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Immunization Cooperative Agreements	00	1	8/24/2023	NEW	$200,000
														Subtotal = $200,000

Grand Total All Awards = $400,000

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AH, NASHP, AIM and AIRA Project: Eliminating Barriers to Immunization through State Interagency and Community Collaboration

Award Number: NU66IP000684

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES(NCIRD)

OPDIV: CDC

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/29/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/28/2025

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