Get the facts: Ready-to-use materials from APHA's Get Ready campaign

Use these free materials from APHA to help Americans prepare themselves, their families and their communities for all public health hazards they may face, including disasters, pandemic flu or other emerging infectious diseases. Share them with those you care about, or pass them out in your community!

Request materials for Get Ready Day
To request free hard copies of materials for Get Ready Day, visit the Get Ready Day event planning page.

Wondering what's new?
Check out our new fact sheets on dengue and water stockpiling.

ARE YOU READY? FACT SHEETS TO HELP PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES

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Work: How to get ready for an emergency at work (PDF) English or Spanish

Earthquakes: How to get ready for earthquakes (PDF) English or Spanish

• Floods: How to get ready for floods (PDF) English or Spanish

• Heat waves: How to get ready for a heat wave (PDF) English or Spanish

• Power outages: How to get ready for power outages (PDF) English or Spanish

 Winter storms: How to get ready for a winter storm (PDF) English or Spanish

 H1N1 flu (swine flu): How to keep yourself safe from H1N1 (PDF) English or Spanish or Asian/Pacific Islander languages

Dengue: What you need to know (PDF)

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FREE MATERIALS TO HELP YOU CREATE AN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS STOCKPILE

Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks

Get the facts: Why do I need an emergency stockpile? English or Spanish (PDFs)

Checklist: What should I put in my stockpile? English or Spanish (PDFs)

• Shopping list: What should I shop for? Grocery list (PDF)

• Recipes: What can I make to eat during a disaster? Recipes (PDF)

NEW! Water stockpiling: How much water should I store? English or Spanish

• Pets: How can I prepare my pets for emergencies? English or Spanish (PDFs)

Budget stockpiling: How can I stockpile without spending a lot? English or Spanish (PDFs)

Cold & flu supplies: What do I need to have on hand for a cold or the flu? English or Spanish (PDFs)

Full Toolkit (PDF) (Contains all the items listed above in English in a single document).

Get Set: An Emergency Preparedness Project Kit A how-to guide for high school students English or Spanish (PDFs)

For more materials and tips from Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks, see the campaign Web page.

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FREE MATERIALS TO HELP YOU GET PREPARED

Get Ready Event Guide Hold your own Get Ready event with our free planning and activity guide! (PDF)

Preparedness Tip Sheet: Better to be safe than sorry
Learn the most important things you can do to be prepared in this tip sheet from The Nation’s Health, the newspaper of the American Public Health Association.
English or Spanish (PDFs)

FAQs: Pandemic and Seasonal Flu English or Spanish (PDFs)
What is swine flu, aka H1N1 flu? How can I reduce my risk of getting flu? What is pandemic flu? Find these answers and more.

Emerging Infectious Diseases Fact Sheet (PDF)
What are the most common emerging infectious diseases, and how can you prevent them? Add your logo AddLogo

Fact Sheet on Preparing for Flu (PDF) How it helps to prepare for natural and manmade disasters. Add your logo AddLogo

Pandemic Flu Fact Sheet (PDF) How to protect yourself from pandemic flu, as well as signs and symptoms. Add your logo AddLogo

FREE MATERIALS TO HELP KIDS PREPARE

Get Ready Kids Fun Site
Visit the Get Ready Kids Fun Site for games and other materials aimed specifically at kids.

Get Ready: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks kids
Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks offers games for kids as well as preparedness questions for children to ask their parents. (PDFs)

Get Ready Pandemic Flu Kids Guide
Download a PDF of the Get Ready Kids' Guide on Pandemic Flu with info on H1N1. English or Spanish (PDFs) AddLogo

Get Ready Games Guide
Hold your own Get Ready carnival for kids with our Get Ready Games Guide. Included are materials and tips for creating and playing games that teach preparedness.
Note: This is a large file so download time may be slow. (8MB) (PDF)

HELPING HANDOUTS: FREE QUICK & EASY TIPS TO SHARE

Disease prevention: The best advice may be "rub a dub dub"
With so many diseases out there, it's good to know that handwashing can help keep you safe. (PDF) English or Spanish

'Tis the season: Holiday traveler's advice for preventing the spread of infectious disease
Traveling home for the holidays? If you aren't careful, you could end up bringing home an uninvited guest to meet the family: infectious disease. (PDF) English or Spanish

Chicken about eating poultry? Properly cooking and handling your food is the answer.
Are you afraid to eat chicken because of avian flu? Learn the facts. (PDF) English or Spanish

Quarantine: Scary scenario, or practical approach?
What will really happen is a disease outbreak strikes? (PDF) English or Spanish

Pandemic flu: What's all the fuss about?
Learn what pandemic flu is and why you should care. (PDF)

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FREE GET READY LOGO DOWNLOADS

Help spread the message about preparing for pandemic flu and other emerging infectious diseases by adding one of our logos to your materials or Web site!

FREE MATERIALS FOR POLICY-MAKERS AND THE MEDIA

Pandemic Flu Fact Sheet (PDF) Pandemic flu is different, and needs a coordinated response from policy-makers. Add your logo AddLogo

Bioterrorism Preparedness Fact Sheet (PDF)
Are we protected? Get the facts on bioterrorism preparedness.

Pandemic Flu Preparedness and Response Facts (PDF) What are we doing to make sure no one is left behind in pandemic flu planning? Add your logo AddLogo

For questions about any of these materials, call us at (202) 777-2742 or e-mail us. For other free materials from APHA on public health topics, check out these Healthy You tipsheets from The Nation's Health newspaper.

Guidelines on how you can use Get Ready materials and logos are listed here.

Get Ready campaign brochure
Download the Get Ready brochure for more on the campaign, or to share it at your event or booth.

AddLogo*Materials marked with a green "L" symbol can be customized with your logo. For instructions, visit the Get Ready logo customization page.