AAFP Foundation Wyeth Immunization Awards Program

The American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (AAFP Foundation) Wyeth Immunization Awards are available to family medicine residency programs that have achieved high or improved childhood immunization rates, or are implementing a system to increase childhood immunizations in medically underserved children ages 19-35 months.

Applications for 2009 awards are currently available in the following tracks:

• Best Practices
  Recognizes programs with an effective system in place that are achieving high childhood immunization rates, as measured within a 12-month time frame.
• Most Improved
  Recognizes programs that have greatly improved their childhood immunization rates by overcoming barriers and other challenges, as measured within a 12-month period.
• System Implementation
  Recognizes programs that will be implementing a system that increases immunization rates in medically underserved children age 19-35 months.

Applications must be completed and returned no later than midnight Friday, April 3.

Winners will receive:

• A monetary award or grant ($5,000 - $10,000) determined by rank of applications as scored by a review panel 
• Travel scholarship for $1,000 to send a resident to the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students 
• An additional travel scholarship for $2,000 for top ranking programs to send a resident to the AAFP Scientific Assembly 
• Framed certificate.

For more information, visit the AAFP Foundation Web site.

If you have questions, contact AAFP Programs and Grants Manager Sondra Goodman or call 800.274.2237, ext. 4457.

This program is sponsored by a grant to AAFP Foundation from Wyeth Vaccines.