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About the Strategic Initiatives Team

Senior Management The Strategic Initiatives team welcomes and explores new ideas and partnerships and creates structure around them. The team is currently responsible for several initiatives, including Vaccinate with Confidence, Adult Vaccination Capture in Immunization Information Systems, and Routine Immunizations. Team members also support AIRA’s Board and membership, as well as special initiatives and collaborations with strategic partners nationally and globally.
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Strategic Initiatives


Strategic Initiatives Team

 

Maureen Neary | Director of Strategic Initiatives

Maureen Neary joined AIRA in May 2014 as a consultant and transitioned to Senior Project Manager in January 2016. In August 2020, Maureen became the Director of Strategic Initiatives. Prior to joining AIRA, she spent 15 years as a Senior Manager of an entrepreneurial publishing company. She has experience creating infrastructure, overseeing operations, launching websites, managing production, developing content, optimizing client services, and running events. 


 

Jody Dial, MPH | Program Manager

Jody Dial joined AIRA in July 2021 as the Program Manager. Prior to this role, Jody worked for the Kentucky Immunization Program for nine years, first as the AFIX/IQIP Coordinator and Immunization Registry Coordinator, and most recently as the Immunization Data and Surveillance Section Manager. Before coming to the Kentucky Immunization Program, Jody worked for 10 years as an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist for the states of Georgia and New Hampshire.


 

Taylor Boomsma, MPH | Epidemiologist/Data Analyst

Taylor Boomsma joined AIRA in November 2020 as the Epidemiologist/Data Analyst. Prior to this role, she was the Vaccines For Children-Immunization Information System (IIS) Epidemiologist at the Tennessee Department of Health. She also served as the Adolescent Immunization Coordinator where she collaborated with other immunization stakeholders to increase HPV vaccine uptake in Tennessee. She has experience analyzing IIS-based vaccination coverage assessments, developing data-driven reports to inform programmatic process improvement, managing large projects and CDC-led programs, as well as creating impactful Tableau visualizations.


 

Jo Turcotte | Membership Coordinator

Jo Turcotte joined AIRA in January 2021 as the Membership Coordinator. Prior to this role, Jo worked with two other organizations where her efforts were focused on membership, programs management, marketing, customer service, and event coordination.