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          National Vaccination Insights project – report 2025

          2025

          The first comprehensive report from the National Vaccination Insights project identifies key parental barriers to timely childhood vaccination and presents strategies to address the concerning declines in vaccine uptake observed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Informed by a national survey of 2,000 parents and input from immunisation stakeholders, the report pinpoints the main causes of declining childhood vaccination coverage and delivers evidence-based, practical strategies to guide policy and program design aimed at improving vaccination access and acceptance.

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          Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, COVID-19 vaccines, 2022

          2025

          The Therapeutic Goods Administration monitors the safety of vaccines in Australia by collecting and reviewing spontaneous reports of adverse events following immunisation. This report describes the data collected through this spontaneous surveillance system in 2022 for all vaccines other than COVID-19 vaccines.

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          Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation in Australia, 2022

          2025

          The Therapeutic Goods Administration monitors the safety of vaccines in Australia by collecting and reviewing spontaneous reports of adverse events following immunisation. This report describes the data collected through this spontaneous surveillance system in 2022 for all vaccines other than COVID-19 vaccines.

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          Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2023

          2024

          The Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2023 – the seventeenth in the series – examines Australian Immunisation Register data for children, adolescents and adults, providing a detailed summary of changes in vaccination coverage rates in Australia between 2022 and 2023. The report shows that fully vaccinated coverage in children again decreased across Australia, for the third consecutive year. For the first time, the summary version of the report is available in a user-friendly online format.

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          Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2022 – Summary

          2023

          This summary presents key findings from the Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2022, which focuses on changes in vaccination coverage among children, adolescents and adults in Australia between 2021 and 2022. It details vaccination coverage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and brings to light the impacts of geographic remoteness and socio-economic status, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, on vaccination coverage rates in Australia.

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          Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2022

          2023

          The Annual Immunisation Coverage Report 2022 examines Australian Immunisation Register data for children, adolescents and adults to offer a detailed picture of changes in vaccination coverage rates in Australia between 2021 and 2022. It is the first study of its kind to comprehensively document the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccination coverage in Australia. The report shows that fully vaccinated coverage in children has declined across Australia since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other findings, it also reveals that pandemic impacts on vaccination coverage were greater in remote areas with a high proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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          Evaluation of Indigenous status completeness in vaccine preventable disease notification data in the NNDSS

          2023

          This report provides a comprehensive evaluation of factors influencing the quality and completeness of Indigenous status for vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). In 2016–2019 Indigenous status completeness at the national level was over 90% for most VPDs in the NNDS, but lower for influenza (37.4%), pertussis (59.2%) and rotavirus (69.7%), all of which are high incidence diseases either fully or predominantly notified by laboratories, with some variation by jurisdiction and age group.

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          Optimising adolescent and adult coverage rate methodologies

          2023

          This report reviews methodologies currently used in Australia and overseas to assess adolescent and adult vaccination coverage (excluding COVID-19) and recommends evidence-based approaches to optimise coverage assessment and reporting from a clinical, immunisation program and public health perspective.

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          Optimising childhood coverage rate assessment and reporting methodologies

          2023

          This research report presents the findings of a thorough review of childhood vaccination coverage assessment and reporting methodologies used in Australia, with comparison to approaches taken overseas, and makes evidence-based recommendations to optimise these methodologies from a clinical and public health perspective.

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          Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2016–2019

          2023

          This report, which focuses on the 2016–2019 period, is the fifth comprehensive NCIRS report on vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As with previous reports, it aims to analyse and assess routinely collected data on notifications, hospital admissions, deaths and vaccination coverage, to support service delivery, policy development and further research on the prevention of VPDs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It identifies a range of achievements, including positive impacts of immunisation programs on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and further ways to move forward.

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