Communication Resources

🖨️ 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. 

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💡 Review + use to help advance your skills in plain language for public health communications.

Added: 04.25.24

💻 Plain Language Guide for Public Health

PHCC's guide to plain language is designed to help communicators share messages that help their audiences find what they need, understand the information they find, + use the information to meet their needs.

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💡 Share to those creating and reviewing content for the general public via newsletters, email, and on websites.

03.06.23 

🖨️ Building Trust in Public Health Communications

To center trust in your communications, consider the insights and tips in this resource. It can help you reevaluate and refine your communications production approach from planning to execution to evaluation for continuous improvement.  

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💡 Review + apply to your health communications

Added: 03.06.24

🧰 Communications Tool: "Building Bridges"

From the Public Health Communications Collaborative, this communications resources helps public health communicators + healthcare providers navigate difficult conversations around vaccines, masking, testing, + more.

INCLUDES:

• Building Bridges Communications Tool

• Answers to Tough Questions

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💡 Review, bookmark, + practice the tools when engaging with your community. Consider sharing with fellow communicators or healthcare providers

1.24.22

🖨️ Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation

This comprehensive resource from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security lays out a phased approach to preventing the spread of misinformation:

✔️ Prework: Actions to take before rumors arise 

✔️ Step 1: Decide whether to address the rumor

✔️ Step 2: Take action to address misinformation

✔️ Step 3: Evaluate anti-misinformation messages

And it features lots of great stuff: a checklist that breaks down all the key phases and strategies, a message development guide, a truth sandwich worksheet. 

🎙️ Available in English

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💡 Bookmark + review to inform your communications

 Added: 05.22.24

💻 Using Misinformation Alerts 

From the Public Health Communications Collaborative, this resource page updates regularly to report on emerging misinformation, along with recommendations on if + how to address it.

INCLUDES:

Misinformation alerts + recommended responses + reactions

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💡 Bookmark + review regularly

1.31.22

🖨️ Accessible Social Media for Public Health

PHCC has developed “The Public Health Communicators Guide to Creating Accessible Social Media” to support public health communicators in crafting accessible writing, visuals, audio, and videos. Use this guide to develop accessible and inclusive social media content that connects with all members of your audience.

🎙️ Available in English

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💡 Bookmark + review to inform your communications

 Added: 05.28.24

🖨️ Archived News Releases

News releases released prior to the current year have been removed from the main VDH website. An archive of those news releases can be found on this page. VPN access required.

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💡 Bookmark + reference when needed

 Added: 06.04.24