California Dept. of Public Health

Description

This program is dedicated to raising age-appropriate immunization levels to 90% or greater among infants and toddlers residing in California; ensure that public purchased pediatric vaccines are available to all California children in need; implement and maintain a system to actively recruit and enroll public and private health care providers to offer public purchased vaccines to California children in all local public health jurisdictions.

Our Services

Program Type

  1. Fiscal Sponsorship

  1. G-Diseases,Disorders & Medical Disciplines

  2. 621999 All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services

Project Directory

Meningococcal Surveillance

The purpose of this CDC project is in response to CDC-RFA-CI07-70403ARRA09 "Evaluation of Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine and other High-Priority Vaccine Preventable Diseases", titled "Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine ". This grant is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act . The Project Director,Kathleen, Harriman, PhD, MPH, RN , is the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Epidemiology Section Chief, California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Immunization Branch. The objective of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine in preventing invasive meningococcal disease. The Project Director has not worked with PHFE before, but comes highly recommended by Gil Chavez, M.D., Director, Center for Infectious Disease, CDPH. PHFE will act as the application, fiscal and administrative agent for the Immunization Branch.

Bioterrorism (BT) Planning

This project is working in collaboration with Program 2264, BioTerrorism Planning. PHFE provides three staff with expertise in pandemic influenza response, planning, emergency preparedness, and infection control. The duties of these personnel focus on developing a CDPH-specific operational pandemic influenza response plan, emergency preparedness, local health department assistance, and emergency response. They will develop and conduct pandemic influenza trainings and exercises. These personnel perform mission critical functions for the response to pandemic H1N1 that continues to date as each functions in a key role for the response.