Webinar: Perinatal Immunizations: A Crucial Time for Health Promotion for Mom, Baby, and Beyond

Description: This webinar will provide an overview of current perinatal immunization rates and effective strategies and opportunities to promote maternal and newborn health and well-being. The presenter will also review critical diseases that can be prevented through appropriate prenatal screening and immunizations that will protect mothers and infants during the perinatal period and beyond.

Registration: Click here to register.

Presenter: Andrea Lauffer, M.D., FAAP, FACP

Objectives:

1. Describe current perinatal immunization rates for expectant mothers and effective strategies for improving perinatal immunization rates;
2. Discuss the recommended perinatal immunizations offered to expectant mothers and understand the benefit of immunization and risks of these diseases to mother/baby during the perinatal period;
3. Discuss opportunities to promote immunizations to pregnant individuals who are found to be non-immune to certain vaccine-preventable diseases during prenatal screening;
4. Describe the hepatitis B immunization recommendation for infants; and
5. Discuss strategies and opportunities to educate patients and the public on the importance of immunizations prior to, during, and after the perinatal period.

Continuing Education:

An application for 1.0 hour of continuing education for Nurses, Pharmacists and Physicians will be submitted for this event.