Views From State-Level Policy Actors About the US Federal Government COVID-19 Response

Health Security, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 5, 2025

The United States takes a federalist approach to pandemic responses while the bulk of powers sits at state level. Thus, comprehensive accounts how health officials managed crisis and federal government affected those efforts are needed better understand governmental response COVID-19 pandemic. This article reports results semistructured interviews with 29 state-level policy actors from 16 US states. Interviewees discussed multiple aspects that in their states, including communications public, intergovernmental communications, actions regarding various service preparedness emergency funding, procurement, testing capacity, vaccine development distribution, data systems. research enriches discussion about response, indicates alignment public across levels, enhanced communication, inclusion rural perspectives, investment sustainment key factors can improve future responses.

Language: Английский

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Future Prospects, Approaches, and the Government’s Role in the Development of a Hepatitis C Virus Vaccine

Pathogens, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(1), P. 38 - 38

Published: Dec. 31, 2023

Developing a safe and effective vaccine against the hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains top priority for global health. Despite recent advances in antiviral therapies, high cost limited accessibility of these treatments impede their widespread application, particularly resource-limited settings. Therefore, development HCV necessity. This review article analyzes current technologies, future prospects, strategies, genomic targets, governmental role development. We discuss epidemiological landscape infection potential structural non-structural protein antigens as targets. In addition, involvement government agencies policymakers supporting facilitating vaccines is emphasized. explore how regulatory channels frameworks affect research goals, funding, public health policy. The significance international public-private partnerships accelerating an examined. Finally, directions developing are discussed. conclusion, highlights urgent need preventive to fight disease collaborative efforts between scientists, politicians, organizations reach this important goal.

Language: Английский

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Challenges and opportunities during the COVID-19 vaccination efforts in long-term care

Vaccine, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 42, P. 125554 - 125554

Published: Jan. 5, 2024

From December 2020 through March 2023, the COVID-19 vaccination efforts in long-term care (LTC) settings, identified many gaps and opportunities to improve public health capacity support vaccine distribution, education, documentation of vaccines administered LTC residents staff. Partner engagement at local, state, federal levels helped establish pathways for dissemination information, access delivery vaccines, expand reporting administration data monitor impact settings. Sustaining improvements infrastructure settings that were created or enhanced during is critical protection staff against other preventable respiratory outbreaks future.

Language: Английский

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Federal Retail Pharmacy Program Contributions to Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccinations Across Sociodemographic Characteristics — United States, September 1, 2022–September 30, 2023

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 73(13), P. 286 - 290

Published: April 4, 2024

The Federal Retail Pharmacy Program (FRPP) facilitated integration of pharmacies as partners in national efforts to scale up vaccination capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency response.To evaluate FRPP's contribution across various sociodemographic groups, data on bivalent mRNA vaccine doses administered September 1, 2022-September 30, 2023, were evaluated from two sources: 1) FRPP reported directly CDC and 2) jurisdictional immunization information systems all 50 states, District Columbia, U.S. territories, freely associated states.Among 59.8 million United States this period, 40.5 (67.7%) by partners.The proportion ranged 5.9% among children aged 6 months-4 years 70.6% adults 18-49 years.Among some racial ethnic minority groups (e.g., Hispanic or Latino, non-Hispanic Black African American, Native Hawaiian other Pacific Islander, Asian persons), ≥45% partners.Further, urban rural areas, 81.6% 60.0% doses, respectively.The partnership approximately thirds provided access for persons a wide range demonstrating that program could serve model address services needs routine vaccines provide health public emergencies.

Language: Английский

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Spatial Accessibility and Uptake of Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccinations by Social Vulnerability

PEDIATRICS, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 154(2)

Published: July 19, 2024

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Geographic accessibility predicts pediatric preventive care utilization, including vaccine uptake. However, spatial inequities in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rollout remain underexplored. We assessed of sites and analyzed predictors METHODS In this cross-sectional study COVID-19 vaccinations from US Vaccine Tracking System as July 29, 2022, we described by geocoding sites, measuring travel times each Census tract population center to nearest site, weighting tracts their demographics obtain nationally representative estimates. used quasi-Poisson regressions calculate incidence rate ratios, comparing uptake between counties with highest lowest quartile Social Vulnerability Index scores: socioeconomic status (SES), household composition disability (HCD), minority language (MSL), housing type transportation. RESULTS 15 233 956 doses administered across 27 526 sites. Rural, uninsured, white, Native American populations experienced longer site than urban, insured, Hispanic, Black, Asian populations. Overall Index, SES, HCD were associated decreased among children aged 6 months 4 years (overall: ratio 0.70 [95% confidence interval 0.60–0.81]; SES: 0.66 [0.58–0.75]; HCD: 0.38 [0.33–0.44]) 5 11 0.85 [0.77–0.95]; 0.71 [0.65–0.78]; 0.67 [0.61–0.74]), whereas social vulnerability MSL was increased (6 months–4 years: 5.16 [3.59–7.42]; years–11 1.73 [1.44–2.08]). CONCLUSIONS Pediatric differed race, rurality, vulnerability. National supply data, measurement, place-based indices can be applied throughout public health resource allocation, surveillance, research.

Language: Английский

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Modernizing Public Health Data Systems and Workforce Capacity: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 25, 2024

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed governmental public health’s outdated information technology and insufficient data science informatics workforce capacity. Centers for Disease Control Prevention’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) is well positioned to strengthen health Program: Established in 1996, PHIFP a 2-year, full-time, on-the-job training program. includes didactic curriculum, applied learning through projects completed at the assigned host site, short-term technical assistance projects, final capstone project. Evaluation: Fellows have learned from bolstered site capacity development or enhancement of systems, evaluations, integration, visualization, analysis. Among recent graduates, 54% are employed Prevention 16% other organizations, including local departments. Discussion: Fellowships such as PHIFP, which recruit train promising scientists informatics, important components efforts

Language: Английский

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Trends in adolescent and adult vaccination in pharmacy and medical settings in the United States, 2018–2024: a database study

Expert Review of Vaccines, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 15, 2024

Background Pharmacies can increase access to vaccines. This study aimed describe US trends in the proportion of adolescent and adult vaccinations administered pharmacies from 2018 2024.

Language: Английский

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