Technically Speaking: Saying Goodbye — And Leaving You with My “Top 10” List of Places to Bookmark on Immunize.org
Published on in Vaccine Update for Healthcare Providers
Published on in Vaccine Update for Healthcare Providers
Editor’s note: Since its inception, the Vaccine Update newsletter has included a column about the technical aspects of vaccine administration written by Dr. Deborah Wexler, our friend and colleague from the Immunization Action Coalition. This month, Dr. Wexler will be retiring from IAC, so she will no longer be sharing her expert point of view on vaccine administration with our readers. While details about the future of the Technically Speaking column will be forthcoming in the next few months, we want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Wexler not only for her contributions to benefit our readers, but for her years of friendship and shared purpose. We wish her happiness, health and well-earned relaxation in the years ahead.
Farewell, readers. After 30 years as executive director of the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), I will be retiring at the end of June. I leave IAC in the best of hands. Our deputy director, Dr. Kelly Moore, will be assuming the leadership of IAC on July 1.
On this occasion of my final column of Technically Speaking, it seems the perfect time to give you a parting gift. With my deepest appreciation for your dedication to immunization, here is my “Top 10” list of favorite locations on IAC’s website, immunize.org. These locations just might become your favorites as well!
IAC’s website for healthcare professionals, immunize.org, was launched in 1995 as a pioneer immunization site on the World Wide Web. When you entered the term “immunization” into “AltaVista,” the internet search engine of the day, you would get 10 results. The Immunization Action Coalition was one of them. My, how things have changed! Twenty-six years later, immunize.org remains in the top 10 Google “immunization” search results, but has been joined by more than 400 million other listings. Today, immunize.org is the nation’s premier nonprofit immunization website for healthcare professionals, averaging 30,000 visits each day with visitors from nearly 200 countries each month. The IAC educational materials available on immunize.org have 3.5 million downloads per year.
Over the past 26 years, I have guided the content of immunize.org based on my experiences working in clinics and community-based immunization sites following the measles epidemic of 1989–1990. IAC has also received invaluable content suggestions from public health and private sector providers. Based on this experience, here are my “Top 10” favorite places to know about and bookmark on immunize.org.
So, there it is. I hope you find my “Top 10” list helpful in your work. Thank you for letting me be part of your world via the Vaccine Update for Healthcare Professionals since 2010. And know that IAC will remain your committed partner in immunization education and delivery for many years to come.
Contributed by: Deborah Wexler, MD
Categories: Vaccine Update June 2021, Technically Speaking
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