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Join CDC’s #FightFlu Social Media Campaign
Throughout flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be using its #FightFlu social media campaign to promote and encourage flu vaccination activities. During or after getting a flu shot, local health department staff can share photos and videos of yourself or your community members on digital platforms (tag #FightFlu on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube). […]
Join CDC’s #FightFlu Social Media Campaign
New “Let’s Stop HIV Together” Social Media Toolkit
Are you looking for content to promote HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and anti-stigma messaging to your social media audiences? Let’s Stop HIV Together launched a new online social media toolkit containing sample images and text that you can use on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. View the toolkit.
New “Let’s Stop HIV Together” Social Media Toolkit
Can Social Media Help Public Health Officials Monitor...
It would seem that the exchange of health information on social media and the Internet is an obvious opportunity to gain insight into emerging disease outbreaks. With new initiatives like Google Flu Trends and HealthMap, there are more ways than ever before to monitor outbreaks. But how useful are these initiatives for public health practitioners who are trying to detect emerging diseases in their own regions?
Can Social Media Help Public Health Officials Monitor...
Using Social Media for Enhanced Situational Awareness...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released a report entitled, “Using Social Media for Enhanced Situational Awareness and Decision Support.” Historically, the emergency response community has leveraged multiple data sources, including land mobile radios, maps, computer-aided dispatch, crisis management systems, traffic cameras, geographic information systems, and windshield assessments to collect information. Now, responders can leverage […]
Using Social Media for Enhanced Situational Awareness...
CDC Social Media Campaign: Roll your #SleeveUp to...
CDC recently released the Roll your #SleeveUp to #FightFlu social media campaign to encourage annual flu vaccination. Using the campaign resources and toolkit, healthcare professionals can feature photos of themselves and others receiving a flu vaccine or showing off a bandage after receiving the flu vaccine.
CDC Social Media Campaign: Roll your #SleeveUp to...
Social Media During a Public Health Crisis
Social media was both an incubator for misinformation that local health officials have had to combat as well as a strategic tool that health departments used to inform the behavioral health of the public during the pandemic.
Social Media During a Public Health Crisis
#ShotOfScience: Social Media Campaign for Vaccine Science
As a lead in to the March for Science (April 22), the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) recently launched a new social media campaign focused on vaccine science. Vaccines remain a landmark accomplishment for public health and science. To promote greater public understanding about the science, safety, and efficacy of vaccines, the campaign features shareable and engaging […]
#ShotOfScience: Social Media Campaign for Vaccine Science
Get Involved: Social Media Campaign for Sexual Health
From November 1 to January 31, the National Coalition of Sexual Health (NCSH) will be leading a two-part social media campaign to promote sexual health. This campaign includes sample content that you can use as-is and/or adapt for your local health department’s digital and social channels. NCSH formatted the content for Twitter, but it can be […]
Get Involved: Social Media Campaign for Sexual Health
Public Health Departments Use Social Media for Education...
This article from iHealth Beat outlines how local health departments (LHDs) have been using social media to keep the public informed about medical outbreaks and disasters, as well as to increase health awareness and encourage behavior change. NACCHO’s senior researcher Jan Wilhoit discusses the results from the upcoming National Profile of Local Health Departments, which shows […]
Public Health Departments Use Social Media for Education...
Public Health Thank You Day Social Media Toolkit
In recognition of Public Health Thank-You Day, NACCHO has developed a social media toolkit for local health departments, their partners, stakeholders, and other individual public health advocates to help spread awareness and say “Thank You” to the public health workforce.