Register, book and manage your vaccination appointments
Vaccines play an important role in keeping us healthy, and many adults are not vaccinated as recommended. Preventable diseases cause many adults to get sick, leading to missed work, not being able to care for those who depend on them and passing the illness on to others.
We offer both funded and paid immunisation services at our regular community immunisation sessions.
Funded immunisations
The following immunisations are funded for people who have or are eligible for a Medicare cardOpens in new tab as part of the National Immunisation ProgramOpens in new tab.
- Eligible people under 20 years: free routine and catch-up vaccines under the National Immunisation ProgramOpens in new tab.
- Eligible people aged 20 to under 26 years: free HPV vaccination for anyone who missed their school vaccination.
- Pregnant women: free Whooping cough vaccine from 20 weeks and influenza immunisation.
- Men who have sex with men: Monkeypox immunisation.
- Adults born during or after 1966: measles-mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine (adults born during or after 1966 do not require evidence of previous doses or immunity)
- Refugees, humanitarian entrants and vulnerable people: free routine and catch-up vaccines under the National Immunisation ProgramOpens in new tab.
- Adults at risk of hepatitis B as per the Victorian Government.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples over 50 years can receive Pneumococcal and Shingles immunisations (all adults of all ages can also have funded influenza immunisation).
- All adults 65 years and over can receive funded shingles and influenza vaccines.
- All adults 70 years and over can receive pneumococcal immunisation.
Find out what paid vaccinations are available on the immunisations homepage.
Shingrix (shingles) vaccine now available
We have adequate stock of Shingrix vaccinations.
A two-dose course of Shingrix is available free for all eligible people:
- All adults aged 65 years or older.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 years or older .
- Selected groups aged 18 years or older who are severely immunocompromised.
- Two doses of Shingrix are required for an adequate level and duration of protection.
- The gap between doses should be 2 to 6 months.
For immunocompromised people, the gap should be one to two months between doses.
Mpox (Monkeypox immunisations) now available
The City of Melbourne is administering the Mpox (monkeypox) vaccine (JYNNEOS vaccine) available free-of-charge for eligible people 18 years and over who meet the following criteria:
- All sexually active gay and bisexual men (cis and trans).
- Sexual partners of the above.
- Sex workers.
- Some particular healthcare workers who are at an increased risk to exposure.
Two doses are required for optimal protection (80 per cent protection) and are provided subcutaneously (under the skin) in the deltoid at least 28 days apart.
This is not available to anyone who has come into contact with the mpox virus. If you are a close contact of anyone with the virus, please see your GP or sexual health clinic for post-exposure vaccination.
Please email the immunisation team immunisation@melbourne.vic.gov.au if you:
- are immunocompromised
- have a confirmed anaphylaxis to egg
- history of Keloid Scarring
- experience Atopic dermatitis
- previous smallpox vaccination.
Immunisation can be given at the same time as other immunisations.
