The CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccination Communication Toolkit For Medical Centers, Pharmacies, and Clinicians is a resource that provides ready-made materials that can be used to educate healthcare teams and staff and to give them tools they can use to educate patients and answer their questions about the vaccines.

The toolkit includes:

How to Build Healthcare Personnel’s Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccines (cdc.gov)

This informational guide presents six strategies for immunization coordinators to build vaccine confidence within their health system or clinics. It includes tangible actions to promote confidence, communication, and uptake of COVID-19 vaccine, which can help support confidence among providers and patients.

Communications and Confidence Readiness Checklist

Use this checklist to assess the readiness of your facility to promote COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare personnel, and eventually, to patients. Each activity in the checklist includes links to corresponding CDC resources that you can tailor to the needs of your facility and the populations you serve.

The COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Conversation Starter

This conversation starter is a prompt for engaging healthcare providers during an in-person or virtual meeting in order to identify tailored approaches to promote vaccine confidence within a facility.

Vaccine with Confidence

Use CDC’s Vaccinate with Confidence strategy to reinforce confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.

Answering Your Questions About the New COVID-19 Vaccines

This fact sheet for healthcare personnel addresses common questions about the safety and efficacy of the new vaccines.

V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker

Healthcare personnel can use this tool to receive personalized health check-ins after they receive a COVID-19 vaccine, and should encourage all COVID-19 vaccine recipients to participate. V-safe also provides second vaccine dose reminders if needed, and telephone follow-up to anyone who reports medically significant adverse events.

Posters that you can download, print, and hang in health facility common areas and staff break rooms to foster conversation and make vaccination visible:

• Stopping the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Going to Take All of Our Tools
• Three Reasons Why You Were Given Top Priority To Be Vaccinated Against COVID‑19
• Why Get Vaccinated? To Protect Yourself, Your Coworkers, Your Patients, Your Family
• Get Vaccinated, Get Your Smartphone, Get Started With v-safe

Printable stickers in ORANGE and WHITE for staff to wear once they’ve gotten their vaccine.

Slide presentations and accompany scripts are available to help health systems, clinics, and pharmacies educate healthcare personnel, teams, and immunization coordinators about COVID-19 vaccination and build vaccine confidence within their organization:

• Building Vaccine Confidence in Health Systems and Clinics: Tips for Immunization/Vaccine Coordinators
• COVID-19 Vaccine Basics: What Healthcare Personnel Need to Know

How CDC is Making COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations Video

COVID-19 vaccines will be an important tool to help stop this pandemic. CDC’s Dr. Cohn explains how the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an independent group of experts, develops recommendations and advises CDC on the use of vaccines in our country and the process for making recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines.