Frankie Milley, Founder/National Executive Director
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Frankie Milley is a native Houstonian. She has been married to Bob Milley for 40+ years.
Medical laboratory, radiology and EMS and are the roots of Frankie's early education and career.
Most importantly she is the mother of an only child, Ryan who died from meningococcal meningitis at the age of 18. As a result of Ryan’s death, Milley founded, Meningitis Angels, a national nonprofit organization which has become an international network of education, survivor communications, patient advocacy and support. Meningitis Angels currently represents over 600 + Angels and families across the U.S. and over 15+ abroad.
She is the creator of one of the first teen immunization awareness groups in the country called "The Vaccinators".
For her work on infant and adolescent immunizations and meningitis prevention she has received letters of recognition from both Presidents Bush and Obama. She has received recognition from several governors around the country including Governors Rick Perry and Arnold Swartznager and numerous state senators. She is a past honoree of the Houston Area Immunization Partnership for her public service in promoting vaccinations.
Her proudest and most bitter sweet moment was when the US House of Representatives issued, US House Resolution 403, on behalf of Meningitis Angels across the country and Frankie Milley for their work on the prevention of meningitis, in memory of Ryan Wayne Milley on September 20, Ryan's birthday.
Milley has personally helped to write and advocate several bills into law including Texas Senate Bill 31 in 2001 which helped Texas become the first state in the country to educated students of all ages and their parents on bacterial meningitis (meningococcal and pneumococcal) and required college students to sign a waiver of refusal for meningococcal vaccine.
Later she led the advocacy in Texas on a law requiring full immunization for day care entry and adding Hepatitis A and Pneumococcal vaccine to the list of required vaccines.
She help write the rules request and led the advocacy in Texas for a middle school mandate which requires Tdap, meningococcal and varicella vaccines and continues to follow ACIP recommendations.
She continues this same work across the nation. She believes that if teens were vaccinated upon middle school entry and again before high school exit, meningococcal disease could be eradicated among teens and young adults.
She is a charter member of the Texas Immunization Stakeholder Working Group (TISWG) and has participated in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stakeholders public committee hearings on meningococcal vaccines for both adolescents and infants. She testifies regularly at CDC/ACIP hearings on meningococcal and pneumococcal disease prevention and vaccination recommendations.
Milley has led Angels in some of the largest campaigns in the US and around the world on World Meningitis Day involving hundreds of meningitis families, policy makers and the public.
She speaks at local, state and national venues about her personal experiences and the importance of vaccine preventable disease prevention through healthy living and immunizations for all.
Contact Frankie to speak at your event or for a media interview.
Medical laboratory, radiology and EMS and are the roots of Frankie's early education and career.
Most importantly she is the mother of an only child, Ryan who died from meningococcal meningitis at the age of 18. As a result of Ryan’s death, Milley founded, Meningitis Angels, a national nonprofit organization which has become an international network of education, survivor communications, patient advocacy and support. Meningitis Angels currently represents over 600 + Angels and families across the U.S. and over 15+ abroad.
She is the creator of one of the first teen immunization awareness groups in the country called "The Vaccinators".
For her work on infant and adolescent immunizations and meningitis prevention she has received letters of recognition from both Presidents Bush and Obama. She has received recognition from several governors around the country including Governors Rick Perry and Arnold Swartznager and numerous state senators. She is a past honoree of the Houston Area Immunization Partnership for her public service in promoting vaccinations.
Her proudest and most bitter sweet moment was when the US House of Representatives issued, US House Resolution 403, on behalf of Meningitis Angels across the country and Frankie Milley for their work on the prevention of meningitis, in memory of Ryan Wayne Milley on September 20, Ryan's birthday.
Milley has personally helped to write and advocate several bills into law including Texas Senate Bill 31 in 2001 which helped Texas become the first state in the country to educated students of all ages and their parents on bacterial meningitis (meningococcal and pneumococcal) and required college students to sign a waiver of refusal for meningococcal vaccine.
Later she led the advocacy in Texas on a law requiring full immunization for day care entry and adding Hepatitis A and Pneumococcal vaccine to the list of required vaccines.
She help write the rules request and led the advocacy in Texas for a middle school mandate which requires Tdap, meningococcal and varicella vaccines and continues to follow ACIP recommendations.
She continues this same work across the nation. She believes that if teens were vaccinated upon middle school entry and again before high school exit, meningococcal disease could be eradicated among teens and young adults.
She is a charter member of the Texas Immunization Stakeholder Working Group (TISWG) and has participated in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stakeholders public committee hearings on meningococcal vaccines for both adolescents and infants. She testifies regularly at CDC/ACIP hearings on meningococcal and pneumococcal disease prevention and vaccination recommendations.
Milley has led Angels in some of the largest campaigns in the US and around the world on World Meningitis Day involving hundreds of meningitis families, policy makers and the public.
She speaks at local, state and national venues about her personal experiences and the importance of vaccine preventable disease prevention through healthy living and immunizations for all.
Contact Frankie to speak at your event or for a media interview.