ASMP In Action

October 10-11, 2023

We held our first advocate training to train the next generation of meningitis prevention advocates.

October 5, 2023

To help navigate the changing meningitis prevention landscape, we convened 200+ advocates and healthcare providers on World Meningitis Day (WMD) for an update on the latest issues affecting meningitis vaccination and how we can best prepare for the road ahead.

August 1, 2023

Patti and Alicia shared their experience with Meningitis B with fellow parents in a recent publication on healthychildren.org from the American Academy of Pediatrics. This piece is a great resource to share with parents as a one-stop shop on how to protect against meningococcal disease.

March 28, 2023

Co-founders, Patti and Alicia, were recently guests on the Ambiguously Blind podcast where they discussed their experience with meningitis advocacy in honor and memory of each of their daughters – Kimberly Coffey and Emily Stillman – who both lost their lives to Meningitis B before the MenB vaccine was available in the U.S. to help protect them.

March 7-10, 2023

We traveled to Chicago to attend the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) annual meeting. We had the opportunity to educate many people working to improve the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults about meningococcal disease and how it can be prevented.

January 26, 2023

We believe the best conversations happen over a delicious meal! The Dinner Club is designed to encourage an open discussion about barriers to meningococcal meningitis prevention and how we can work together to overcome those challenges. Our first stop was Salt Lake City, Utah!

October 11, 2022

We kicked off our Meningitis B College Tour at the University of California, Riverside Health Center where we had the chance to connect with health center staff and students to highlight why Meningitis B prevention is especially important on college campuses!

September 15, 2022

This month we had the opportunity to exhibit and present our work at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting to help make sure all pediatricians are talking to their patients about the Meningitis B vaccine!

June 28, 2022

We partnered with The AIDS Institute to host a policy-focused educational webinar on meningococcal meningitis in response to the current MenC outbreak and MenB cluster in Florida.

June 2, 2022

Recent studies have shown that healthcare providers do not always fully understand or consistently apply the current ACIP recommendations for meningitis vaccinations. For that reason, the Meningitis B Action Project has developed an easy-to-reference algorithm to facilitate meningococcal vaccination in clinical practice. 

May 12, 2022

As a mother who lost her daughter, Kimberly, to Meningitis B, Patti was honored to share Kim’s story at the Ask2BSure MAMARAZZI Event with The MOMS and Soleil Moon Frye in Hollywood.

Patti was joined by fellow panelists to highlight the importance of ensuring teens are protected and prepared throughout their teenage years.

During this event, Patti was able to emphasize the importance of talking to your teen’s healthcare provider about both types of meningitis vaccines — MenACWY and MenB — with hundreds of mothers from across the country.

To learn more about how to protect your teen, watch the full event here.

May 11, 2022

To help get patients back on track with routine vaccinations we shared the importance of preventing Meningitis B in young adults as well as some of our newly created resources including our Meningitis B Student Hub and Meningitis Algorithm with 120+ attendees at the Spring 2022 Philadelphia Immunization Coalition.

February 9, 2022

The new Meningitis B Student Hub was specifically designed for peer health educators and students with simple key messages to help explain the disease, educational materials for download, sample presentations, and even inspirational podcasts from other peer health educators across the country. It also includes ideas for activating a Meningitis B education campaign on campus and suggestions for engaging student health centers and college administrators to advocate for better Meningitis B prevention measures on campus.

Fall 2021

GSK launched Ask2BSure to encourage parents to talk with their child’s healthcare provider to be sure they have received their Meningitis B vaccination. GSK has pledged to donate $1 for every unique view of the campaign video (up to $10,000) to the Meningitis B Action Project!

September 30, 2021

Today, we had the opportunity to speak to the National Association of School Nurses, along with Alex Singer from VaxTeen, on improving adolescent vaccination rates, including Meningitis B!

August 23, 2021

To promote the importance of adolescent immunizations, Dr. Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Endowed Chair, Adolescent Medicine – University of Alabama Birmingham, joined us to speak with 28 television and radio stations. We were able to reach 5 million+ people across the country and counting.

August 11, 2021

Nurse practitioners Audrey Stevenson and our medical council member, Mary Beth Koslap-Petraco, spoke with Patti and Alicia to discuss all things Meningitis B on the official podcast of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners: NP Pulse: The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner®. They covered everything from strategies to support shared clinical decision-making in clinical practice to the power of sharing personal anecdotes to support young adults and their parents in opting for the MenB vaccine. Available here https://www.aanp.org/podcast and on all other podcast platforms.

May 11, 2021

After each losing our daughters to Meningitis B, a vaccine-preventable disease, we know very well why vaccination is so critical. Although the MenB vaccine is available today, it wasn’t yet available to protect Kim and Emily when they passed away. Today, we all have a chance to protect ourselves, our families, and our communities from COVID-19 by getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

That is why we’ve joined together with other families to leave no stone unturned when it comes to educating communities about COVID-19 prevention and the COVID-19 vaccine. To help us do that, we’ve launched a new joint initiative called Families Against COVID-19.

April 24, 2021

Patti and Alicia began World Meningitis Day by speaking with 25 radio stations throughout the country to share why Meningitis B vaccination is so important with over 44.3 million people!

April 24, 2021

The Meningitis B Action Project facilitated its 3rd Annual Day of Action Against Meningitis B on World Meningitis Day. Together, with their B-team, they were able to accomplish advocacy actions in 26 states to help increase awareness of Meningitis B and how it can be prevented.

We also partnered with 10 organizations to carry out a social media channel takeover which enabled us to educate and reach new audiences!

March 24, 2021

We spoke with The Chronicle of Higher Education to highlight the importance of colleges and universities requiring the Meningitis B vaccine on campus to protect students–especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 9, 2021

Patti and Alicia were interviewed by the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and shared their stories and strategies to help parents ensure their children are as protected as possible from meningococcal disease. Their interview was included in the March Edition of their Parents PACK newsletter which reaches over 43,000 parents!

Check out the interview here.