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📰 Recent Releases
📰 Recent Releases
Vaccine Recommendation Updates
Vaccine Recommendation Updates
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met September 18-19, 2025, to discuss three vaccines: MMRV, hepatitis B, and COVID-19.
The committee voted in favor of minor changes to recommendations for the following vaccines:
Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella (MMRV)
COVID-19
There were no votes on hepatitis B.
Until the CDC makes a formal recommendation, no changes to vaccine guidance will be made.
Please see the VDH Vaccine Update Webpage for the latest updates and COVID-19 vaccine FAQs.
Once CDC makes its formal recommendation, talking points will be updated and distributed.
Meet “Chip”: Virginia’s New Alligator Mascot on a Mission to Tackle Hidden Lead Hazards
Meet “Chip”: Virginia’s New Alligator Mascot on a Mission to Tackle Hidden Lead Hazards
September 16, 2025
RICHMOND, VA — The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has unveiled a creative new public education campaign featuring an unexpected messenger: an alligator mascot named Chip. Aimed at helping families recognize and reduce lead hazards in their homes, Chip brings a friendly, memorable face to an important safety message. Read more.
📌 Social Media Highlights
📌 Social Media Highlights
The Office of Vital Records New Location
The Office of Vital Records New Location
The Office of Vital Records has moved to a new location! Our new space improves the customer experience while ensuring increased privacy for individuals requiring essential services. Learn more about how to find our new location at https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/vital-records/
💡 Resource Updates
💡 Resource Updates
The VDH Little Things is the respiratory health campaign that brings small but powerful health habits to life — each representing an action including washing hands, covering coughs, or getting immunized. Resources include:
Digital banners (on Box)
Little Things VDH Business Tools (on Box added 9/22/25)
🎙️Available in English + Spanish
📌 Find in Respiratory Health + Immunization/Vaccination + Handwashing
💡Please share on social media, newsletters + emails, and with community partners.
Added: 07.09.25
This VDH postcard can be used to educate those at risk of exposure to avian (bird) flu on how to prevent exposure and what to do if they have symptoms.
🎙️Available in English + Spanish (added 9.22.25)
📌 Find in Animal Health + Respiratory Health.
💡Share with community partners and healthcare professionals.
Added 08.22.25
Hep B Birth Dose Media Toolkit
Hep B Birth Dose Media Toolkit
To emphasize the critical importance of the hepatitis B birth dose for newborns, the Hepatitis B Foundation created a comprehensive media toolkit. This resource includes fact sheets, ready-to-use social media messages, and other materials to help you and your organization share accurate, consistent information about protecting infants from hepatitis B.
🎙️Available in English
📌 Find in Immunization/Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
💡Print or share digitally in newsletters + emails.
Added: 09.27.25
🗓️ Upcoming Meetings
🗓️ Upcoming Meetings
AI in Action: Strengthening Public Health Communications with Care & Clarity
AI in Action: Strengthening Public Health Communications with Care & Clarity
Sep 30, 2025 01:00 PM
Whether you’re an AI-curious or AI-overwhelmed public health communicator, this webinar will help you understand the AI landscape and the tools and practices that can support your work connecting with communities.
Plain Language 101
Plain Language 101
Do you write print or digital content for VDH? If so, this training is for you!
Wednesday, October 1, 2-3:30 PM
By the end of this course, learners should:
Know what plain language is
Understand why it's important
Be able to use it in their everyday work
💻Other Updates
💻Other Updates
Website Update Needed: OVR New Location
Website Update Needed: OVR New Location
The Office of Vital Records (OVR) recently changed locations.
Please make sure your websites reflect the new address and operating hours:
8701 Park Central Dr, Suite 100
Richmond, VA 23227
Hours: Monday–Friday, 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
GovDelivery Updates to Email Bounce Handling
GovDelivery Updates to Email Bounce Handling
What’s Changing
Soft Bounce Tracking: Our system now monitors repeated temporary delivery failures (e.g. a full inbox).
Automatic Cleanup: If an email address experiences multiple soft bounces (1 per day for up to 5 days) within a 30-day window, it will be flagged and removed from all subscriptions. This prevents repeated delivery attempts to unreachable addresses.
Hard Bounces & Spam Reports (ARF): These will continue to be handled as permanent failures, resulting in unsubscribing and blocklisting the email address.
What This Means for You
Better inbox placement and engagement.
Protection of your sender reputation with major email providers.
Accurate subscriber lists without extra manual effort.
No action is required on your part. These updates will roll out automatically as part of our ongoing improvements, beginning Thursday, September 18, 2025.
We want to hear from you so we can make the Comms Hub useful to your work.
➡️ Please share your feedback on the Comms Hub using this anonymous survey.
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