Campaign Ideas

Below is a list of different examples of how you can use the “This is Public Health” sticker campaign to engage your community. Many of these efforts were ideas implemented by public health students during National Public Health Week.

• Photo Essay Contest: Have people tell a story about public health through pictures. Everything they take a picture of has to have a “This is Public Health” sticker placed on it.
• Amazing Race/ Scavenger Hunt: Use the stickers to mark certain checkpoints used in a community wide public health-themed Amazing Race- type contest or scavenger hunt.
• Collage/Mural: Ask local schools to create collages or murals inspired by the stickers and what public health means to them. They can even create artwork out of the actual stickers.
• Sticker Ambush: Pick an important public health issue facing your community and cover a public representation of this issue through the placement of the stickers. [e.g. covering a water fountain in stickers if the water sanitation is a key issue]
• Engaging Schools in Stickering: Encourage elementary or high school health classes to participate. Following a session on “What is Public Health” [perhaps integrating the “This is Public Health” video], have the students sticker their schools, take photos and share them publicly.

The engaging educational video on the “This is Public Health” website is also available for download and provides a great way to get your staff and volunteers excited about the effort.

We hope that you will also share your efforts with others by posting photos on the interactive map on the website. Information on uploading photos via Flickr, including a short tutorial video, is available at http://www.vimeo.com/982569.

Send your ideas to stickers@asph.org and we’ll post them here.