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This website contains more than 250 tools, promising practices, and strategies to enhance public health response to an influenza pandemic. Materials represent public health activities and outreach in 40 US states, including 52 cities/counties.

Initially created to enhance preparedness, the Promising Practices collection is now being updated frequently to include successful strategies and practices in response to some of the most difficult aspects of the novel H1N1 pandemic. State and local health departments are sharing their successes in H1N1 response to support one another and conserve resources in the face of this major public health challenge.

You may use this information immediately. Please credit the authoring agencies if you use tools they created and review individual project descriptions for any other conditions of use.

Likewise, we encourage you to submit materials and successful strategies in H1N1 response.

CIDRAP and the Pew Center on the States (PCS) launched this initiative in 2006 to collect and review practices that can be adapted or adopted by public health stakeholders. This project is now sponsored by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) the national non-profit organization representing the 57 state and territorial public health agencies of the United States, US Territories, and the District of Columbia.

For more information on the Promising Practices project, see:

The Advisory Committee: A nationwide team composed of state and local public health experts in pandemic influenza preparedness helped to shape and launch the project.

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