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Promising Practices offers you more than 330 tools, practices, and strategies that have been used by public health and others to prepare or respond to an influenza pandemic. Materials represent work from 45 US states, including more than 65 cities and counties and now, colleges and universities.

The Promising Practices collection has just expanded to include higher education, in cooperation with the universities that compose the Big 10+2, and with support from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). The "Higher Ed" category already has more than 30 practices for colleges and universities to use, and collection is ongoing from all colleges and universities (see press release).

Created before the novel H1N1 influenza pandemic to enhance preparedness, Promising Practices now also features useful response activities. State and local health departments, as well as colleges and universities, are sharing their successes. By highlighting this quality work, Promising Practices aims to help conserve resources and strengthen preparedness and response activities.

You may use materials on this site right away. Please credit the agencies whose work you adapt, and check practices for other conditions of use.

Likewise, please submit practices describing your successes in H1N1 response.

Promising Practices is sponsored by ASTHO, the national non-profit organization representing the 57 state and territorial public health agencies of the United States, U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia. The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) and the Pew Center on the States (PCS) launched Promising Practices in 2006.

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