The Office of Immunization is committed to:
- Promoting immunization to protect children, teens, and adults from preventable diseases.
- Collaborating with health care providers, government agencies, and community organizations to educate parents on healthy choices and preventive care.
- Increasing vaccination coverage across the lifespan by addressing barriers to vaccination to increase accessibility and promote health equity.
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Office Administration Section
The Office Administration Section oversees office coordination and management functions for effective planning, monitoring and policy development in these program areas:
- Budget, fiscal and grants management.
- Contracts and reporting.
- Administrative support.
Assessment Section
The Assessment Section provides epidemiologic and evaluation subject matter expertise in support of immunization, conducts routine immunization surveillance, and makes data more transparent, accessible, and available to multiple audiences. This includes support for:
- Immunization population coverage and surveillance.
- Immunization reporting, dashboards, and metrics.
- Program assessment and evaluation.
- Partnerships and collaboration for immunization data.
The Assessment team helps others access and understand immunization data and analyses to inform efforts for improving vaccination rates, raise awareness of vaccine effectiveness, identify and understand challenges and opportunities for improving vaccination rates across Washington state.
See our Immunization Data.
Clinical, Quality Assurance, and School Section
The Clinical, Quality Assurance, and School Section provides immunization specific clinical and quality improvement expertise, including support for:
- School and child care immunization requirements.
- Immunization quality improvement program.
- Immunization education for providers.
- Vaccine safety education and monitoring.
- Collaboration with partners to ensure equity in preventing and reducing vaccine-preventable disease.
The Clinical, Quality Assurance, and School team works to ensure all Washingtonians across the lifespan and through the healthcare ecosystem have access to accurate and current immunization information and are immunized and protected to reduce the impact of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Immunization Information System Section
The Immunization Information System Section supports the development, functionality, availability and maintenance of the Washington Immunization Information System as a tool to promote healthy families and protect against vaccine-preventable disease. This includes:
- Provide excellent customer service to support WAIIS users and WAIIS applications.
- Continuously update and improve system functionalities to meet new requirements.
- Incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion measures to programmatic functions.
- Support and expand PrepMod vaccination clinic tool.
- Build a sustainable program that is properly resourced.
- Improve WAIIS data accuracy and completion through partnerships and initiatives.
Informatics Section
The Informatics Section supports a robust infrastructure of immunization-related data systems and informatics capabilities, and works to develop, maintain, operate, and enhance immunization-related data systems. This includes support for:
- Immunization analytic and reporting capabilities.
- Assessment and improvement upon existing analytic immunization data flows.
- Maintaining high-quality, uniform, and integrated immunization data.
- Addressing opportunities for immunization data, analytic, and reporting improvements.
- Data governance framework for consistent standards and best practices pertaining to immunization related data.
- Data accuracy and completion.
Vaccine Management Section
The Vaccine Management Section develops, implements and monitors policy, resources, and infrastructure support for these program areas:
- Vaccine financing and distribution.
- Provider enrollment and participation.
- Vaccine accountability and quality assurance.
- Public health emergency response involving vaccine preventable disease.