Campaigns

People are better able to withstand, adapt to, and recover from adversity when they make healthy choices, like the decision to prepare for disasters, emergencies, and disease outbreaks. Prepare Your Health for the personal health hazards and risks that could arise from impacts on utilities, public health systems, and the healthcare infrastructure.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created Ready Wrigley to provide parents, guardians, teachers, and young children with tips, activities, and a story to help the whole family prepare for emergencies. Together with your child, join Wrigley as she helps her family prepare for emergencies by staying informed, packing emergency kits, and making a family plan.

Wonder why zombies, zombie apocalypse, and zombie preparedness continue to live or walk dead on a CDC web site? As it turns out what first began as a tongue-in-cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages has proven to be a very effective platform. We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via “zombie preparedness”.