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PORTLAND, Maine

UNE Receives Funding to Improve HPV Immunization Rates

The Maine Area Health Education (AHEC) Network, housed in the School of Community and Population Health (SCPH) at UNE, has received a grant from the National AHEC Organization (NAO) to implement a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project to strengthen HPV vaccination recommendations, with the goal of decreasing missed opportunities to vaccinate adolescents.  The program is called “HPV Immunization Project: You are the Key to Cancer Prevention.”

With this funding, the Maine AHEC Network and its three centers across the state will provide continuing education programs to a minimum of 150 health care providers each year, develop partnerships with organizations with similar goals such as the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Cancer Foundation, and create an inventory of HPV vaccine programs and partners.

For more information, please contact Karen O’Rourke, M.P.H., Director of the Maine AHEC Network and Associate Director of SCPH, at korourke3@une.edu.

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.