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🖨️ At-A-Glance Plain Language for Public Health Guide
In this at-a-glance view of the Public Health Communication Collaborative’s Plain Language for Public Health guide, you’ll find plain language best practices to use before you start writing, when you’re organizing your content, while you’re writing, and when you’re reviewing and testing your communications.
📌 This can be found in Communications Resources
💡 Review + use to help advance your skills in plain language for public health communications.
Added: 04.25.24
💻 Water Safety
This new page on the Comms Hub offers resources for water safety including Safe Swimming and Waterborne Hazards. More to come!
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Review the materials and use them for your social media and outreach.
Added 04.23.24
🖨️ Mpox Vaccines--Do You Need One?
This flyer from CDC provides information on who should get the mpox vaccine and who shouldn't. It also emphasizes that you do not have to get the vaccine in your forearm.
📌 This can be found in Mpox
💡 Print + post, share online, or send to doctor's offices + community partners
Added: 04.23.24
🧰 Mpox Vaccines: What You Need to Know Series
These slide carousel social media graphics can be used as a unit or individually. They include general information about the mpox vaccine, a reminder to get both doses, and where the vaccine can be administered.
🎙️ Available in English
🎙️ Available in Spanish
📌 This can be found in Mpox
🎙️ Available in English + Spanish
💡 Share on social media + newsletters
Added: 04.23.24
🖨️ Clean It Up, Swimmers
This infographic from CDC reminders swimmers even though pools can be chemically treated, they may still have germs that could cause illness.
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Share with various groups, including swimmers, caregivers of young swimmers, aquatics staff, pool operators, + public health professionals.
Added 04.22.24
🖨️ Check Out Healthy and Safe Swimming
This fact sheet from CDC helps swimmers know what to look for to assess the safety of a pool, hot tub, spa, or other place with treated water.
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Share with various groups, including swimmers, caregivers of young swimmers, aquatics staff, pool operators, + public health professionals.
Added 04.22.24
🖨️ Share the Fun, Not the Germs
This brochure from CDC highlights a few easy steps that swimmers can follow to protect themselves, their families, and other swimmers from germs in the water.
Order for FREE. These brochures can be ordered for free thanks to the generous financial support of the American Chemistry Council.
🎙️ Available in both English + Spanish
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Print + post in waiting rooms, or distribute to parents, childcare services, + pediatricians.
Added 04.22.24
💻 CDC Healthy Swimming Communication Materials
CDC provides a variety of resources to help you learn more about recreational water illnesses (RWIs), healthy swimming, pool chemical safety, and other water-related disease prevention topics. Materials include brochures, buttons + banners, fact sheets, posters, and a social media library.
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Review the materials and use them to inform your messaging and outreach.
Added 04.22.24
🖨️ CDC Safe Swimming Posters
Use these posters to raise awareness about recreational water illnesses and pool chemical safety among swimmers, caregivers of young swimmers, pool operators, and residential pool owners. Laminated posters can be ordered for FREE via CDC Info On Demand.
🎙️ Many available in both English + Spanish
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Display the posters in highly visible public areas such as in bathroom stalls, shower areas, and diaper-changing stations at pools, hot tubs, and water playgrounds where patrons can easily see and read them before getting into the water.
Added 04.22.24
💻 VDH Waterborne Hazards Control Resources
This website from VDH offers numerous resources for waterborne hazards control, including outreach materials, pollution response, and a HAB toolkit.
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Review the resources and use as needed.
Added 04.22.24
💻 CDC HAB-Associated Illness Communications Resources
Use these CDC resources to learn how to prevent illnesses caused by harmful algae and cyanobacteria. Resources include fact sheets, posters, graphics, social media toolkit, partner toolkit, and images.
📌 This can be found in Water Safety
💡 Review the resources, print and share, or share on social media.
Added 04.22.24
🖨️ Flu Can Spread Between Pigs and People
This resource from CDC targets people who enter swine barns at agricultural fairs or people who raise pigs for show or farming. The graphic illustrates how flu can transfer from person to pig or pig to person.
🎙️ Available in English + Spanish
📌 This can be found in Animal Health
💡 Print or share digitally in newsletters + emails.
Added 04.19.24