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Mpox Communications Toolkit and Creative Assets
Use the Mpox Communications Toolkit and Creative Assets to share important information about the mpox vaccine with your community. Use the Communications Toolkit to work with local media to raise awareness about mpox or respond to outbreaks. Use the Creative Assets to remind people that mpox is still around and about the benefits of completing the two-dose mpox vaccine series.
Mpox Communications Toolkit
Collaborating with media to help the public understand the risk of mpox was an important strategy for curbing the 2022 Mpox Outbreak. In fact, through a series of online focus groups, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) shared that their sense of risk was connected to how frequently they saw news stories and social media posts about mpox. Now that the height of the outbreak has passed, mpox is ‘out of sight, out of mind.” Nevertheless, public health officials expect periodic outbreaks and the vaccine can provide protection from infection or serious illness.
Health departments can continue to partner with local media outlets to proactively inform their communities that cases could rise again and to emphasize the importance of receiving the safe, effective, two-dose mpox vaccine. The Mpox Communications Toolkit includes resources to help health departments partner with media proactively or in response to an outbreak. Tools included in the toolkit include templates for press releases and blog posts, talking points, and a step-by-step planning guide for press events.
Creative Assets
During the 2022 Mpox Outbreak, NCSD partnered with CDC to conduct a series of six AI-driven online focus groups with GBMSM to understand their vaccine decisions and test key messages about mpox and the vaccine. All told, these focus groups included more than 300 GBMSM and transgenser women. NCSD subsequently partnered with communications agency SKDK to develop a suite of creative assets for health departments and community-based organizations to communicate about the mpox vaccine.
The themes and messages in the creative assets were directly informed by focus group participants’ feedback on messages and on how they were making their own vaccine decisions. Key messages in these materials include:
- Mpox is still around.
- The vaccine is safe and effective.
- Two doses of the vaccine offer the most protection.
- Being fully vaccinated is a good way to protect yourself, the people you care about, and your lifestyle.
All QR codes lead to the CDC’s Mpox Vaccine Locator.
The Creative Assets in the toolkit below are available for free to communicate about the mpox vaccine in your community. Each tool includes links to a Google Drive with print-ready PDFs (with and without a bleed for printers) and JPEGs. Additionally, NCSD can partner with you to co-brand materials or to provide additional sizing options.
Customize Your Campaign
The communications team can help you personalize your campaign. Reach out if you want to:
- Cobrand materials with your health department or organization logo;
- Create materials in different file sizes; or
- Replace the QR code with a code that points to local information rather than the CDC’s Vaccine Locator.
Mpox Posters
Mpox posters can be printed as 8.5″x11″ flyers or as 18″x24″ large posters. The links next to each poster option provide print-ready PDF files with or without a bleed.
Want to co-brand our posters? Contact the communications team to have your logo added.
Double Check Poster
Make sure the second dose of the mpox vaccine is on your travel list. Engaging in sex while traveling can increase exposure to mpox. Getting the second dose of the mpox vaccine before taking off can protect you when you travel and protect your partners when you get home.
Print-Ready Files
PDF – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer | PDF – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer with Bleed | JPEG – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer
PDF – 18″x24″ Poster | PDF – 18″x24″ Poster with Bleed | JPEG – 18″x24″ Poster
80s Poster
Remember the 80s? It’s long gone. Remember mpox? It’s still a thing. Focus group participants shared that they feel safe from mpox now that media coverage has waned. Remind them that mpox still exists – but so does the safe, effective vaccine.
Print-Ready Files
PDF – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer | PDF – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer with Bleed | JPEG – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer
PDF – 18″x24″ Poster | PDF – 18″x24″ Poster with Bleed | JPEG – 18″x24″ Poster
Self-Care Poster
We do lots of things to protect our bodies – from exercise to skin care. The mpox vaccine can prevent and lessen the internal and external symptoms of mpox.
Print-Ready Files
PDF – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer | PDF – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer with Bleed | JPEG – 8.5″x11″ Poster/Flyer
PDF – 18″x24″ Poster | PDF – 18″x24″ Poster with Bleed | JPEG – 18″x24″ Poster
Mpox Postcards
Mpox postcards can be used as event handouts, mailers, or display materials in lobbies, waiting rooms, or other community spaces. These files are 5″x7″ but other sizes can be provided upon request. Print only the front or add your own back side to share information about local resources for vaccines, testing, or treatment.
What Matters Most Postcard
Care for partners and the community has been an important factor in vaccine decisions. The vaccine can protect the people who matter most in our lives.
Print-Ready Files
PDF – 5″x7″ Postcard | PDF – 5″x7″ Postcard with Bleed | JPEG – 5″x7″ Postcard
Pool Postcard
You and your partner complete each other, and the second dose of the mpox vaccine takes you all the way to the maximum recommended vaccine protection.
Print-Ready Files
PDF – 5″x7″ Postcard | PDF – 5″x7″ Postcard with Bleed | JPEG – 5″x7″ Postcard
Protect Your Community Postcard
Protecting the community was a powerful motivator during the 2022 Mpox Outbreak. The “Protect the Community” Postcard emphasizes the power of community care and provides an outreach option that does not feature people’s faces, which people in some areas may find stigmatizing.
PDF – 5″x7″ Postcard | PDF – 5″x7″ Postcard with Bleed | JPEG – 5″x7″ Postcard
Mpox Coasters
Mpox coasters can be used to market vaccine availability in partnership with your local venues, bars, or during events. The three coaster options pair nicely with posters, window/mirror decals, and app ads to create a broader campaign. These files can be scaled to work with most print shops.
70s Brown Coaster
PDF – Coaster Front | PDF – Coaster Back |
JPEG – Coaster Front | JPEG – Coaster Back
70s Orange Coaster
PDF – Coaster Front | PDF – Coaster Back |
JPEG – Coaster Front | JPEG – Coaster Back
Neon Purple Coaster
PDF – Coaster Front | PDF – Coaster Back
JPEG – Coaster Front | JPEG – Coaster Back
Grindr and App Ads
Browse the full library of downloadable ads for apps, including Grindr. These ads were piloted in Shelby County, TN and Clark County, NV, and received more than 9 million views in the two-week pilot period.
Window Clings and Mirror Decals
Two of our posters and one additional design are available as window clings or mirror decals. These can highlight mpox vaccine
messaging in bathrooms, at gyms, in storefronts, and in clinic entryways. Use these files in their current dimensions or contact the communications team to secure the file size you need.
Safe Word Decal/Cling
Mpox outbreaks are likely to happen again in some areas. Getting both shots can help you lead the life you love.
PDF – Mirror Cling/Window Decal Front | JPEG – Mirror Cling/Window Decal
Double Check Decal/Cling
Display the Double Check Poster image on windows or mirrors.
PDF – Mirror Cling/Window Decal Front | JPEG – Mirror Cling/Window Decal
Self-Care Decal/Cling
Display the Self Care Poster image on windows or mirrors.
PDF – Mirror Cling/Window Decal Front | JPEG – Mirror Cling/Window Decal