UTHealth Houston，UNTHSC的合作伙伴关系，“全部为他们”疫苗接种计划成功的关键

When Erika Thompson, PhD, received an invitation to bring more life-saving vaccines to children and adolescents in North Texas, she leapt at the opportunity.

北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心（UNTHSC）公共卫生学院生物统计学和流行病学系副教授汤普森（Thompson德克萨斯州。

“I was really excited to hear that there was a project working with school districts for HPV vaccination,” she said. “All for Them is innovative in how they bring together multiple stakeholders for the same goal and use a multi-pronged approach for messages to parents, school nurses, and the community.”

Paula Cuccaro, PhD, All for Them’s principal investigator, an assistant professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences and a researcher at UTHealth’s Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, and Efrat Gabay, MPH, All for Them’s senior program manager, connected with Thompson while exploring the expansion of All for Them to more Texas school districts.

总部位于休斯顿的团队成员一直与沃思堡ISD和北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心的儿科移动诊所计划的主任克里斯蒂娜·罗宾逊（Christina Robinson）合作前往协调诊所。

但是，通过汤普森（Thompson）和UNTHSC为他们在北德克萨斯州建立全部分支机构的本地分支，使该项目在社区中具有更加一致的业务，并为更多的家庭提供服务。汤普森（Thompson）成为他们共同投资者的全部，并为他们的实施团队领导。

她说：“我很高兴看到更多资源来到北德克萨斯州进行HPV疫苗接种工作。”“从历史上看，我们地区的HPV疫苗接种率较低，因此为他们添加全部，因为我们的预防癌症策略需要另一层努力。”

All for Them, an initiative run by UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, provides free vaccination clinics at middle and high schools in six public school districts: Aldine ISD, Crowley ISD, Fort Worth ISD, Goose Creek CISD, Houston ISD, and Spring ISD. The clinics, which are implemented in medically underserved schools, offer all childhood and adolescent vaccines — including the HPV vaccine, which protects against six types of cancer.

Since 2017, 6,040 students have received at least one vaccine during the 257 clinics that the All for Them team has coordinated and implemented across the state. Of those students, 4,130 received the HPV vaccine. Most of the students who did not receive the HPV vaccine were already up to date on the series, not yet due for the next dose at the time of the clinic, or not eligible for the vaccine. All for Them’s high HPV vaccine acceptance rate (96% of parents whose youths needed a vaccine dose) is a major accomplishment of the project’s approach.

自2021年以来，在北德克萨斯州的Crowley ISD和沃思堡ISD诊所中，有637名学生在27次诊所接受了至少一种疫苗。

UNTHSC与休斯顿Uthealth之间的伙伴关系一直是为德克萨斯州学生的健康提供关键。

“Being able to expand into the Tarrant County and North Texas area has given us the opportunity to make an impact on youth and families living in high-need areas of our state more effectively,” Gabay said. “It also allows us to see that our strategies can work in new communities.”

Implementing a project like All for Them in a new region can be challenging. The project got its start in Houston-area schools. New populations may require additional approaches — and close coordination from experts familiar with their needs.

“It was critical to work with partners who live in the community to ensure that we maximized our outreach activities and our implementation strategies were conducted effectively,” Cuccaro said. “The more we know about challenges and opportunities in different settings, the better we can prepare schools and providers to implement All for Them on their own.”

All for Them counts 20 team members, including co-investigators, research coordinators, and graduate research assistants, in addition to dozens of school district and community partners.

加贝说：“对我来说，亮点是能够看到我们的休斯顿和沃思堡队（尤其是现场工作人员）共同努力解决挑战并互相学习。”“本学年与UNTHSC公共卫生学院实习生的两位出色的研究生也很令人兴奋。”

Cuccaro, Gabay, and Thompson look forward to opportunities for continuing All for Them’s work.

“I hope that this is just one of many partnerships between UTHealth and UNTHSC in the realm of cancer prevention,” Thompson said. “I just love working with the All for Them team. I couldn’t have asked for a better collaborator.”

所有这些都由德克萨斯州癌症预防和研究所（CPRIT PP200017＆PP170046）资助。beplay苹果手机能用吗对于他们来说，克劳利都得到了德克萨斯大学医学博士安德森癌症中心的支持。在allforthemvaccines.com. Follow the project onFacebook,Instagram， 和Twitter.