Projects
Trends in childhood undervaccination
Lack of adherence with the U.S. recommended childhood immunization schedule leads to increased vaccine preventable disease risk in young children. In this project, we are quantifying national and state trends in and factors associated with vaccine timeliness, immunization schedule adherence, undervaccination due to parental vaccine hesitancy, undervaccination due to other access barriers, and rural-urban differences in immunization services delivery.
Advancing Vaccine Informatics, Communication, and Education: The AdVICE Team Science Initiative
Through three highly collaborative and overlapping projects, we are collaborating with investigators of the University of Nebraska Medical Center to develop a parent-facing mHealth tool to promote adherence to preventive care recommendations, including childhood vaccinations.
Modernizing Vaccine Surveillance
All states maintain an immunization information system (IIS), which consolidates vaccination records from across clinics. Dr. Newcomer leads initiatives to advance applications of IIS data for population health purposes. Such innovations include methods for identifying geographic areas at highest risk of vaccine-preventable diseases, and leveraging IIS data to inform local and state public health responses to low vaccination coverage in communities.
