College & University: Prevention & Mitigation

Focuses on ways to teach hand hygiene and respiratory disease prevention to limit the spread of   disease. Includes training and educational materials in a variety of formats, such as fact sheets, handwashing activities, posters, reports, skits, and videos.

»  Community Resources

• Students Preparing America
  Information on how to prepare and generate community awareness (Columbia University)

»  Fact Sheets 

• Avian Flu (Bird Flu)  English | Spanish
  Fact sheet on  the symptoms of avian flu and how it is spread; 1 page
  (Contra Costa County Health Services) 
   

• How Does Seasonal Flu Differ from Pandemic Flu?
  Fact sheet on the difference between seasonal and pandemic flu; 1 page
  (United States Department of Health and Human Services)
   

• Pandemic Flu Glossary of Terms
  Terms that are commonly used in pandemic flu preparedness (American Red Cross)
   

• Stopping Germs at Home, Work and School
  Fact sheet about how to prevent the spread of germs; 2 pages (CDC)
   

• Stopping the Spread of Germs at Home, Work, and School
  Fact sheet about how to prevent the spread of germs; 1 page
  (Sacramento County Division of Public Health)

»  Handwashing Activities

• Great Ideas for Hand Washing Educators
  Ideas on how to spread awareness on handwashing and illness prevention; Adults
  (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
   

• Handwashing: Prevent Disease and Outbreak Intervention
  Curriculum to teach older audiences about how to prevent illness; 10 pages; grade 9 – Adult (Minnesota Department of Health) 
   

• Handwashing Project Ideas for Students
  Activities and project ideas for students; includes ideas for community outreach;
  grade 6  –  Adult (Minnesota Department of Health) 

»  Posters
 

• Cover Your Cough
  Chinese I French I Khmer I Portuguese I Tagalog I Vietnamese (Minnesota Department of Health)
   

• Did You Wash Your Hands?
  (Massachusetts Department of Health)
   

• Health Alert English/Spanish | English/Chinese (CDHS)
   

• Keep Germs Away, Every Day  
  (Soap & Detergent Association)
   

• Our Hands Touch Many Lives version A I version B I version C
  (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
   

• Stop Disease
  English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog, and Japanese (CDHS)
   

• Wash Your Hands
  In English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese (CDHS)

»  Reports

• Pandemic Influenza: The State of the Science
  An issue brief with technical information on pandemics; 26 pages
  (Trust for America’s Health and Infectious Diseases Society of America

»  Skits

• Henry the Hand School Kit
  Skit for 2 older students to teach children (pre-K – grade 3) about germs; includes
  links to Henry the Hand video, theme song and Doin' the Handwash song 
  (Henry the Hand Foundation)  
    

• How to WHACK the Flu
  Skit for 3 older students to teach hand and respiratory hygiene to children
  (pre-K – grade 2); includes a sticker, a poster, and a brochure to send
  home with kids; 3 pages (City of Berkeley)