REACH 2010: New York City Effective Strategies for Integrating Immunization Promotion Into Community Programs

Supplement to April 2009 Vol. 10, No. 2, 128S-137S DOI: 10.1177/1524839909331544 ©2009 Society for Public Health Education Authors’ Note: This is one of eight articles published in the supplement “Fostering Healthy Communities,” supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under Contract No. 200-2007-M-21898 and available via open access at http:// hpp.sagepub.com/. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the CDC. We gratefully acknowledge the encouragement, suggestions, and support we have received from the thousands of families who participated in the program as well as from our community partners. In addition, we thank the CDC’s Reach 2010 program and the Bank of America Foundation for their financial support and the Immunization Bureau, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for expediting batch access to the Citywide Immunization Registry. All correspondence related to this article should be addressed to Sally E. Findley, Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven Ave, B-2, New York, NY 10032; e-mail: sef5@columbia.edu.