Locating Your Immunization Records

If you are a transfer student, Graduate, Doctoral or Law Student, you may be able to locate the immunizations you submitted to your previous university's health center.

If you need a Release of Information form in order to get these records, you can use our form at this link and have the information sent directly to you or to our office.

If all else fails or you’re short on time, get a blood draw.

If you’ve looked in all of the above locations or if you know you got shots as a child, but don’t have time to go through these sources, you can get a blood draw.

Request a measles (rubeola) titer from your healthcare provider. You can get usually get your blood drawn in their office or take the order to a local lab draw station. Results of this blood test for measles immunity are often complete within 48 hours. You need to obtain a copy of the results showing a positive blood test, which means you are immune to the measles, and upload that into the online health portal.

If you do not have a healthcare provider, contact our office so we can assist you with other recommendations for obtaining an order to get this testing.

If you have located your immunization records, however discover you have documentation for only one MMR. You will need to get a second MMR administered or complete a blood test. See above information regarding a measles blood test.

To get a MMR vaccine:

• Visit your primary care doctor's office
• Visit your local pharmacy

**Please note that the clinician or pharmacist may state that one MMR vaccine is sufficient for an adult. However, Gonzaga follows the CDC guidelines located at this link, which states the following:

"Students at post-high school educational institutions who do not have evidence of immunity need two doses of MMR vaccine, separated by at least 28 days."

If you have located your immunization records and discover that you do not have any MMR dates. You will need to start the two-dose MMR series. Gonzaga requires two doses of measles (MMR) vaccine received after one year of age, at least one month apart.

To get a MMR vaccine:

• Visit your primary care doctor's office
• Visit your local pharmacy

**Please note that the clinician or pharmacist may state that one MMR vaccine is sufficient for an adult. However, Gonzaga follows the CDC guidelines located at this link, which states the following:

"Students at post-high school educational institutions who do not have evidence of immunity need two doses of MMR vaccine, separated by at least 28 days."

Gonzaga University requires two doses of measles (MMR) vaccine received after one year of age, at least one month apart.

If you discover your MMR vaccinations are not timed appropriately, you will need to either receive an additional MMR vaccine in order to have two doses of MMR appropriately timed or get a measles blood test done. See above information regarding a measles blood test.

If you decide to get the measles blood test and the results come back as negative (that you are NOT immune to the measles), you will need to start the 2-dose MMR series.

Even if you have documentation of previously administered MMR vaccines, the negative measles blood test will nullify those previous MMR doses.