UNE Receives Funding to Improve HPV Immunization Rates

The Maine Area Health Education (AHEC) Network, housed in the School of Community and Population Health (SCPH) at UNE, has received a grant from the National AHEC Organization (NAO) to implement a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project to strengthen HPV vaccination recommendations, with the goal of decreasing missed opportunities to vaccinate adolescents.  The program is called “HPV Immunization Project: You are the Key to Cancer Prevention.”

With this funding, the Maine AHEC Network and its three centers across the state will provide continuing education programs to a minimum of 150 health care providers each year, develop partnerships with organizations with similar goals such as the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Cancer Foundation, and create an inventory of HPV vaccine programs and partners.

For more information, please contact Karen O’Rourke, M.P.H., Director of the Maine AHEC Network and Associate Director of SCPH, at korourke3@une.edu.