Bayou B
Tuesday, May 11, 2004: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

A4: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunization Initiative (READII)

Project Coordinators from two of the five READII demonstration sites – Chicago and San Antonio – will be joined by the NIP READII Project Coordinator and NIP’s contractor, Academy for Educational Development, to describe programmatic and communications-related activities during the first 18 months of this multi-year effort to address on-going low influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates among Black and Hispanic elderly.
Learning Objectives: After attending this session, participants will be able to describe the influenza (flu) and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) vaccination disparities among minority elderly.

Moderator:Tamara Kicera
11:00 AM5688Introductory Remarks
11:15 AM5690Presentation — Julie Morita
11:30 AM4925"Vacúnese Por Vida": A Community-wide Approach to Improving Adult Immunization Coverage of Elderly Hispanics
Rita E. Salazar, Mario F. Martinez, Jamie F. Ford
11:45 AM5051: Promoting Adult Immunizations: Lessons Learned from Year One of the READII Project
James B. Bender, Karena F. Sapsis
12:00 PM5057READII-Racial & Ethnic Adult Disparities in Immunization Initiative
Tamara Kicera
12:15 PM5689Discussion

The 38th National Immunization Conference of CDC