# Lessons Learned from DHS' Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Initiative
> **Review** by Department of Homeland Security OIG · 2022-05-13
> *About: Department of Homeland Security*
## Report
- **Title:** Lessons Learned from DHS' Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Initiative
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Homeland Security OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Homeland Security
- **Type:** Review
- **Publication date:** 2022-05-13

## Summary

Our objective was to evaluate how DHS determined employee status for placement into vaccine distribution priority groups; determine how DHS, in conjunction with VHA, planned to triage and distribute available vaccine inventory and vaccinate frontline, mission-critical DHS staff; and evaluate how DHS executed its plan.


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Open): We recommend the DHS OCHCO designate, direct, and oversee component representatives to maintain rosters of essential employees in each category defined by existing DHS policy.
- **Rec 1** (Open): We recommend the DHS OCHCO designate, direct, and oversee component representatives to maintain rosters of essential employees in each category defined by existing DHS policy.
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/lessons-learned-dhs-employee-covid-19-vaccination-initiative)
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