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2021 was a year of forging community partnerships, ensuring health equity and educating lawmakers, community stakeholders and the public, of the vital role local health departments play in emergency preparedness planning. At the onset of the new year, many were hopeful that FDA approval of COVID-19 vaccines would bring a foreseeable end to the pandemic as well as social distancing and gathering restrictions. At the same time, NYSACHO members were awaiting space to fully focus on provision of core public health services they are responsible for providing to communities. The delta and omicron variants, however, had other plans for everyone, and local health departments persisted in their mission to increase vaccination rates by educating communities on the benefits of vaccination while at the same time countering misinformation; holding mass points of dispensing (PODs); organizing special vaccination clinics to ensure equity and advocating for open eligibility of various populations to receive vaccine. NYSACHO’s 2021 Annual Report summarizes the work the NYSACHO team did throughout 2021 to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts employed by local health departments, as well as our advocacy work and key successes in other programmatic areas.
