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Immunization Healthcare Branch website moves to Health.mil

The DHA Immunization Healthcare Branch website has moved from www.vaccines.mil to www.health.mil/vaccines, which contains a wealth of immunization resources and information that aims to assist in achieving excellence in immunization healthcare.

THe Defense Health Agency Immunization Healthcare Branch (IHB) has a new home on the web as of this week.

As part of a Military Health System (MHS) initiative, IHB has migrated its public-facing webpage to www.health.mil/vaccines. The site promotes excellence in immunization health care practice and keeps service members and beneficiaries aware of current immunization information and policy from the services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

IHB’s new website has noticeable changes to its look and functionality, and offers wider access to vaccine publications, fact sheets, policies and educational materials. The IHB migration supports the MHS initiative to standardize the design of webpages and consolidate websites running on different networks.

The former IHB webpage, www.vaccines.mil, will direct visitors to www.health.mil/vaccines and ask them to save the new site as a bookmark. The old site will remain functional during the transition period, but will be fully deactivated at a time to be determined.

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