A child receives a routine vaccination at Oregon Health & Science University. Health care providers at OHSU still strongly recommend that all babies get a first dose of hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth as part of routine care. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Zachary Lee, 13 months, of Portland, receives a COVID-19 vaccine as dad, Denny Lie, and mom, Tzu-Hsueh Huang, comfort him on June 25, 2022, at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. An OHSU study shows children with a parent that received a flu vaccine were nearly twice as likely to be fully vaccinated by age 2. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

An OHSU program is the first in the country to bring community health workers, called kinder coaches, into primary care clinics – and to have their services covered by Medicaid. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)