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President's Column
We in AIRA are pleased to be working with CDC, the Association of Immunization Program Managers (AIM), Every Child By Two (ECBT), and CIRSET on implementing the Immunization Registry Strategic Plan: 2002 – 2007. I urge you to read the plan, which may be found at www.cdc.gov/nip/registry, and join one of our committees or workgroups to help carry it out. Contact AIRA Executive Director Cindy Sutliff at csutliff@health.nyc.gov to learn of opportunities for your participation.
Our goal is to reach the Healthy People 2010 objective: increase to 95% the proportion of children (ages 0 - < 6 years) participating in a fully operational, population-based immunization registry. With funding from CDC to AIRA through a cooperative agreement, we will be implementing key areas of the strategic plan: promoting data exchange between registries and managed care organizations; implementing the PROW Standards of Excellence for registry support of immunization program core functions; documenting registry impact; collecting and sharing of best practices in provider participation, data quality assurance, use of registry data and technical capabilities; and meeting the educational needs of our peers. We look forward to the active participation of all our members.
One final note to those of you working on pre-event smallpox vaccination data capture, AIRA recently launched a Bio-Terrorism Committee. This committee is serving as an important forum for the exchange of information among our peers and with CDC. Contact Paula Soper at Paula_Soper@stchome.com for more information.
Amy Metroka
AIRA President