All adults need immunizations to protect their health. This page provides immunization information and resources for both adults and health care providers.
Adults
- View the adult immunization schedule – Find out which vaccines you may need based on your age and health conditions. For easy-to-read information on adult vaccines, visit Vaccinate Your Family’s Vaccines for Adults webpage.
- Adult Immunization Frequently Asked Questions – Get the answers to common questions about adult vaccines.
- Adult Immunization Resources - Get information on immunizations for adults based on age, job, lifestyle, or health conditions. These resources will help you to make informed choices about vaccinations.
- MyIR Mobile – Access your immunization records at any time from the Washington State Immunization Information System (IIS) through the consumer access portal, MyIR Mobile. It provides your immunization history and a schedule showing any vaccines you need.
For Health Care Providers
- Immunization for Health Care Providers - Your source for vaccine recommendations, programs, clinical guidance, and more to support vaccination across the lifespan.
- Standards for Adult Immunization Practice – Use these four national standards to increase vaccination coverage rates among adult patients in your clinic. You can also check out the Adult Immunization Standards webpage from the CDC.
- The Importance of Adult Immunizations (PDF) and Spanish (PDF) – This educational manual provides information for health promoters and community health workers to educate in groups or individually. It focuses on the importance of adult immunizations and the diseases they prevent. It's colorful and easy to understand! You can print it and use it as a flipbook.
- Respiratory Immunization Data – The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) publishes weekly updates to its dashboard that displays the number of flu, COVID-19 and RSV vaccines that are administered in Washington, as well as estimates of the percentage of Washingtonians who are immunized. You can also view other immunization data from DOH.
- Vaccinating Adults: A Step-by-Step Guide (Immunize.org) – This guide describes how to implement adult vaccination services in your healthcare setting. It provides a review for staff who already vaccinate adults; the Guide is available for free download.
- Health Care Personnel Vaccination Recommendations (Immunize.org) – Health care providers have an important role in reducing the spread of disease. They should set an example by getting the recommended vaccines to protect themselves, their staff, and their patients.
- Recommended Vaccines for Health Care Workers (PDF) – You are a trusted member of the community. You have a professional and ethical responsibility to prevent the spread of infectious diseases to the people you serve.