Maricopa County COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker and Locator

About the Program

Category: Civic Education and Public Information (Best in Category)

Year: 2021

In January 2021, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (Public Health) launched its COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker and Locator web application that allows users to search and locate COVID-19 vaccination providers in Maricopa County. This public facing application provides a map and listing of all COVID-19 vaccine providers. It is also accessible from various devices and includes a Spanish language version. The vaccine provider data used by the app is managed and hosted by the Arizona Department of Health Services.Since early December 2020, Public Health have coordinated with state, local and federal governments to allocate and administer COVID-19 vaccines to county residents. By January 2021, vaccines for highest priority population was administered and the next phase was to open vaccine eligibility to a larger population. When more residents became eligible, more inquiries needed to be handled by Public Health. To enhance public outreach and information, Public Health approached the Maricopa County Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) to develop, implement and manage an application.The information provided by the COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker and Locator application helps eligible vaccine recipients search, visualize, and identify vaccine providers and schedule appointments. This has benefitted Public Health by reducing the time and effort responding to residents who are eligible for vaccines and need to find providers.