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Budget for children's vaccines and immunization programs
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Council Member Lynn Schulman inquires about the budget for children's vaccines and immunization programs. Acting Commissioner Michelle Morse provides details on the Vaccine for Children program and overall vaccination budget.
- The disease prevention and treatment for immunization programs has a fiscal 2026 budget of nearly $12 million
- DOHMH distributes about 2.7 million vaccines per year through the Vaccine for Children program
- The overall vaccination budget is about $40 million per year, covering vaccination work, community engagement, education, and communications campaigns
- The COVID immunization supplemental grant from the federal government is ending, affecting some budget numbers
- DOHMH will follow up with a breakdown of the budget by each type of vaccination
Lynn Schulman
0:57:51
Okay.
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The disease prevention and treatment for immunization programs has a fiscal twenty twenty six budget of nearly $12,000,000 What is the total budget for children's vaccines specifically?
Michelle Morse
0:58:03
Thank you for that question.
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We have been running the vaccine for children program for the city since, it started in the nineteen nineties.
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Overall, we partner with health care delivery organizations to distribute about 2,700,000 vaccines per year through the Vaccine for Children program.
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Our overall vaccination budget is about $40,000,000 or so per year, and that funding of course helps us to do both the vaccination work as well as community engagement and education, communications campaigns, and other work as well.
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Can you provide a breakdown of
Lynn Schulman
0:58:43
the budget by each type of vaccination?
Michelle Morse
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We would be happy to follow-up with you on Our COVID immunization supplemental grant from the federal government is ending.
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So some of these numbers and investments are in flux, but we'd be happy to follow-up
Lynn Schulman
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with The PMMR outlines a couple of performance indicators related to children's vaccinations.