2019 Annual Meeting

Giving it Your Best Shot: Collaborative Strategies to Improve Flu Vaccination Rates on Your Campus (Room Governor's Square 12)

31 May 19
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Tracks: Credit-CHES, Credit-CME, Credit-CNE, Credit-CPEU, Credit-MCHES, Management, Session Badge - Campus Collaboration, Session Badge - Collaborative Care, Session Badge - Toolbox

CME:1  CNE:1  CHES:1  MCHES:1  CPEU:1 

Campus Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Management, Toolbox

After this session, attendees should be able to:

  1. Identify the barriers to improving flu vaccination rates in the university community at large.
  2. Explain the collaborative strategies implemented at the UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center that have led to success.

Program Abstract:
According to the CDC, the common flu kills nearly 36,000 people each year. As university health professionals, we’re on the front lines every October when flu season begins -- and though the ACHA Healthy Campus 2020 target for flu vaccination remains 50 percent, most campuses continue to fall short of that goal. In 2017-18, UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center successfully vaccinated nearly one quarter of our 43,000 enrolled students (N=10,765). In this program, learn a number of strategies for growing flu vaccination rates on your campus.