2025-2026 Impacting Immunization Implementation through Quality Improvement Grant

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To be considered for APhA’s 2025-2026 Impacting Immunization Implementation through Quality Improvement Grant, you must submit your Immunization CQI project by December 1, 2025, via the  submission portal.

Immunization CQI projects should contain the following to be considered:

• Contact Information
• Goal/Objective Statement
• Project background, needs assessment, and literature review
• Implementation
• Evaluation of Outcomes

APhA and the advisory committee will review all submissions and will select recipients to receive a grant in the amount of $5,000. Grant recipients will be invited to present outcome findings at APhA’s Annual Meeting and Exposition in March 2027.

All applicants must be completing post-graduate training in a residency or fellowship during the application cycle. Immunization CQI projects must pertain to immunization workflow development or delivery.

• Submission of Immunization CQI project due December 1, 2025
• Notification of recipients and 50% grant disbursement: December 2025
• Interim outcomes report and final grant disbursement: March 2026
• Final outcomes report due June 2026
• Presentation of outcomes: March 2027

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is the national professional society of pharmacists in the U.S. APhA represents the nation’s third largest health profession, comprised of more than 300,000 pharmacy practitioners, scientists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians. For more than 25 years, APhA has been an active and visible organization advocating for increased immunization and public health roles for pharmacists, serving as subject matter experts, and collaborating with other stakeholders within the “Immunization Neighborhood.” APhA’s work supports the pharmacist’s role as an educator, facilitator, and vaccinator. The long-term impact of this work is highlighted within the pharmacy profession’s work in the COVID-19 pandemic during which most COVID-19 vaccines were administered by pharmacy teams.

The APhA certificate training program “Pharmacy-based Immunization Delivery” has become the gold standard of immunization training for pharmacists and student pharmacists in the delivery of immunization services across the lifespan, training over 450,000 pharmacists. With this immunization delivery program being taught in most pharmacy school curriculums, new practitioners are armed with the training they need to implement immunization programs in their practice setting. For new practitioners pursuing a post-graduate residency or fellowship, a quality improvement component is often required for successful program completion. These residency programs are extremely competitive and offer a unique experience for pharmacists to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned to real patients, situations, and practice settings.

The 2025-2026 Impacting Immunization Implementation through Quality Improvement Grant is by an independent educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA and Pfizer.

Please contact Ellyn Terry, Director of Education, at eterry@aphanet.org with any questions.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Needs Assessment. Accessed on: June 17, 2023. Available at: https://digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/needs-assessment