August 9, 2024 3:40 a.m. 

Aviva Health’s Community Health Vaccine Manager Sallie Dean has won a big award.

On Thursday, the Association of Immunization Managers announced that Sallie Dean is the recipient of its 2024 AIM Champion Award.

An Aviva release said according to AIM, “the annual award honors up to one champion from each of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, six cities and eight U.S. territories. This award recognizes individuals who are working at the local level. It honors those doing an exemplary job or going above and beyond to promote or foster immunizations in their communities, for both children and adults”.

Dean was the only person in Oregon and one of 65 in the nation and its territories to receive the award.

Brittany Shaver, director of Specialty and Dental Operations at Aviva Health said, “It’s incredible but not surprising that Sallie was selected for this award”. Shaver said, “She truly is a champion who has dedicated herself to promoting and delivering immunizations across the community for more than two decades”.

The release said for many years, Dean has been a driving force behind efforts to make vaccinations available to people living outside the county seat of Roseburg, delivering immunizations and pop-up events in sparsely populated locations of the region with no reliable health care resources like Drain and Elkton.

Aviva said over her career, Dean has single-handedly administered thousands of immunizations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she played a pivotal role in delivering vaccinations in collaboration with the local public health authority, hospital and school districts to front-line healthcare workers and medically fragile individuals at mass-vaccination events held across the county.

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