QUESTION
What roles do other city agencies play in supporting the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) with immunization vaccine outreach?
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Dr. Celia Quinn highlights the partnership with the Department of Education (DOE) as a critical component in vaccine outreach, especially for childhood vaccines.
- The Department of Education (DOE) works closely with the DOHMH to disseminate vaccine information through schools.
- Information about vaccines and vaccine requirements is distributed through backpack letters.
- This partnership is specifically important for childhood vaccines.
- Council Member Julie Menin emphasizes the need for a wide-reaching, multiagency approach to vaccine outreach.
Julie Menin
0:41:59
What are other city agencies doing to this do HMH in immunization vaccine outreach?
Dr. Celia Quinn
0:42:08
So I can't speak to all of the other agencies.
0:42:12
But one of our key partners in this is the Department of Education.
0:42:15
So we work closely with DOE and with school health to make sure that information about vaccines and vaccine requirements are gonna going out through schools, through backpack letters, but we that's one of our really important partners in especially childhood vaccines.
Julie Menin
0:42:30
So, I mean, during COVID, when we had issues around trying to reach people and hard to reach communities, we had every single city agency.
0:42:38
All seventy city agencies were involved.
0:42:40
In Outreach, it seems to me that this would be another example of when you'd want a multiagency approach.
0:42:46
You want every single agency that has touch points to parents to be getting this information out there to them.
Dr. Celia Quinn
0:42:52
Thank you.
0:42:53
Appreciate that.
0:42:54
Thank you.