THE DISCOVERY IN THE 1980s linking the human papillomavirus (HPV) to nearly all cases of cervical cancer led to the groundbreaking development of a cancer-prevention vaccine, approved for use in females in 2006 and for males in 2009. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that the HPV vaccine — which can prevent cervical, anal, vulvar, vaginal, penile and certain throat cancers, as well as genital warts — be offered routinely to adolescents and young adults ages 11-26. The vaccines are administered in two (ages 11-14 years) or three (age 15 or older) doses over the course of about 6-12 months.
But 12 years after the HPV vaccine was introduced, usage rates among adolescents remain disappointingly low, says Dr. Roshan Bastani UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Bastani attributes this in part to missteps in the way the vaccine was introduced. “The fact that it was initially promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and certain legislators raised suspicions among some people,” she says. “In addition, HPV is a sexually transmitted virus and there were early media reports of concern among parents that receipt of the vaccine would encourage their child to engage in sexual activity. Our own research and that of others around the country has shown that most parents do not hold such beliefs. We do know that many providers do not routinely recommend the vaccine to their patients, and that some providers are not comfortable having a discussion about a sexually transmitted virus with parents of young adolescents.”
To learn how health systems can effectively increase HPV vaccination rates, Bastani heads a $6.6 million, five-year study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The study is being done through a partnership with the Northeast Valley Health Corporation (NEVHC), a multisite federally qualified health center (FQHC) serving a low-income population in Los Angeles’ San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. Bastani’s team — including Drs. Beth Glenn Alison Herrmann Catherine Crespi
A system-level strategy targeting physicians, staff and clinic-level policies, procedures and practices;
Text-messaging or mailing reminders to parents of NEVHC adolescent patients who are due for a dose of the HPV vaccine; and
A combination of the system-level and parent-reminder strategies. More than 17,000 HPV vaccine eligible adolescents will receive services at participating NEVHC clinics during the five-year study period. The impact of each strategy will be assessed through a review of NEVHC’s electronic medical records.
The team has been laying the groundwork for the current study for nearly a decade, beginning shortly after the vaccine was introduced. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, NEVHC and other community clinics, the FSPH researchers have conducted multiple studies to learn about parental knowledge and beliefs about the HPV vaccine and ways to improve vaccine uptake, and to pilot-test parent-reminder and system-level strategies.
This isn’t a vaccine to prevent a sexually transmitted disease; it’s a vaccine to prevent cancer.
Dr. Roshan Bastani
“We didn’t find major opposition to the vaccine; it was more that many parents didn’t know much about it,” says Glenn, an FSPH associate professor of health policy and management UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
NEVHC, the community partner in the study, provides care to a primarily uninsured or publicly insured population in which only about one-third of the teens have received the full HPV vaccine series. “This is a great opportunity to better understand what interventions will work with our safety-net population,” says Rosen, NEVHC’s director of quality and health education. “We are excited to collaborate with the Fielding School and to share what we learn with other organizations.”
Rosen notes that many adolescent patients fail to return to the health center after getting the first dose of the HPV vaccine; to that end, the text and mail reminders will serve both to let parents know that their child is due and to reinforce the importance of completing the series.
But for any organization with limited resources, it is important for strategies to be not just effective, but also efficient. “Convincing individual patients is very inefficient,” Bastani says. “We need to look at systematic changes that will serve patients today, tomorrow and into the future.” Among the system-level changes being emphasized at NEVHC is to view each visit by an adolescent patient, even if it’s for another purpose, as an opportunity to determine whether an HPV vaccine is due, and to offer it when it is. The NEVHC physicians are also being encouraged to make the HPV vaccine a more routine part of practice in the same way that vaccines are routinely ordered for younger-age children, and to de-emphasize that the virus is sexually transmitted. “This isn’t a vaccine to prevent a sexually transmitted disease; it’s a vaccine to prevent cancer,” Bastani says.
The UCLA-NEVHC study is funded through PCORI’s Pragmatic Clinical Studies initiative, which aims to produce results that are broadly applicable to a diverse range of patients and health care settings and can be more quickly adopted in routine clinical practice. “Making an impact on 17,000 patients in this one system is huge,” Bastani says. “But what we learn from this study will also have the potential to improve the prevention of HPV-related cancers in other low-resource clinical settings across the country. This is an extremely safe vaccine that prevents a horrible disease from ever developing. It is important that we learn how to ensure that it’s reaching the population.”
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Health Policy and Management
Richard J. Jackson
Environmental Health Sciences
Rey Soto
Data Systems Analyst
Epidemiology
Annette Regan
Epidemiology
Susan Babey
Health Policy and Management
Daniela Abrahamian
Community Health Sciences
Frank J. Sorvillo
Epidemiology
Kathy Silva
Program Coordinator, Public Scholars Training Program
Tao Huai
Environmental Health Sciences
Karin B. Michels
Epidemiology
Shane Que Hee
Industrial Hygiene & Analytical Chemistry
Environmental Health Sciences
Sangeeta Ahluwalia
Health Policy and Management
Porchia Toussaint
Assistant Director, MPH for Health Professionals Program
Community Health Sciences
Paula Tavrow
Community Health Sciences
Moira Inkelas
Health Policy and Management
Paul Chung
Health Policy and Management
Marjan Javanbakht
Epidemiology
Ron D. Hays
@UCLA since 1997
Health Policy and Management
Sheba George
Community Health Sciences
Jody Heymann
Health Policy and Management
Jackie Cisneros
Environmental Health Sciences
Jonathan Bates
Community Health Sciences
Lisa Stanley
Project Director, Data Informed Futures
Epidemiology
Kristy J. Sherrer
Director of Career Services
Maral DerSarkissian
Epidemiology
Vickie Mays
Health Policy and Management
Judith M. Siegel
Community Health Sciences
Akihiro Nishi
Epidemiology
Ilan H. Meyer
Community Health Sciences
Peter Saenz
Staff Human Resources Analyst
Nataly Soberanes
Research Administration Analyst
Epidemiology
Mark A. Malek
Epidemiology
Oliver Hankinson
Dr. Hankinson is a Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and of EHS, and Chair of the Molecular Toxicology IDP
Environmental Health Sciences
Haroutune Armenian
Epidemiology
Christie Jeon
Epidemiology
Marissa Seamans
Epidemiology
Ondine S. von Ehrenstein
Community Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Ninez Ponce
Health Policy and Management
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
Community Health Sciences
Michael Galper
Health Policy and Management
Robert Brook
Health Policy and Management
Otoniel Martinez-Maza
Epidemiology
Shirley Rayner
Epidemiology
Natalie Muth
Community Health Sciences
Ronald Halbert
Community Health Sciences
Roger Detels
Epidemiology
Leeka I. Kheifets
Epidemiology
Neal Halfon
Health Policy and Management
Joselyne Franco
Contract and Grant Analyst
