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Learn to select needs assessment methods and tools to gather meaningful data, engage stakeholders, and support informed, data-driven decision-making.

Explore practical strategies for framing risk and prevention messages that build trust, promote informed action, and support effective health communication.

Explore how misinformation spreads, why it is persuasive, and practical strategies for recognizing, evaluating, and responding to false information with confidence.

False and misleading information spreads quickly. Learn how to recognize different forms of problematic information and evaluate health claims with greater confidence.

Routine spraying of individual lawns with non-selective insecticides to reduce mosquito populations can easily enter waterways, harming non-target organisms.

Learn how to keep kids safe from ticks, mosquitoes, and stinging insects.

By following these steps, you can reduce your risk of mosquito bites while grilling, gardening, or otherwise enjoying the outdoors around the home and yard.

Rapidly spreading across the United States, the invasive longhorned tick threatens cattle, horses, and wildlife; learn identification, risks, and strategies to protect animals.

Learn core principles of risk communication during emerging vector-borne disease threats, including strategies for clear, actionable messaging and effective audience engagement.

Learn about these diseases and how you can protect your horse and yourself.

Learn evidence-based strategies to prevent vector bites, practice safe outdoor work, and communicate protective measures effectively across diverse settings.

Highlighting the mosquito life cycle, explaining each stage, from egg to adult, and how some species bite and spread disease

In 2022, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article that stated Pennsylvania has the most cases of Lyme Disease in the United States.

Tick identification, life history, and distribution; tick-borne diseases; and prevention

Article discussing the blood-borne parasite Theileria orientalis, its transmission by the Asian Longhorned Tick, and considerations when moving cattle.

Mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases, such as eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus encephalitis, may continue to be an issue in the fall as long as temperatures and weather permit.

Two cases of locally acquired malaria have been found in the United States in the past couple of months with one case occurring in the nearby state of New Jersey.

Learn how to identify the American dog tick and understand what it is feeding on to help limit your exposure to vector-borne diseases.

Lonestar ticks are making their way up into the northeastern United States. Find out how you can identify them!

Blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, are some of the most common ticks in the northeast United States, so how can you identify them?

Get to know the Brown dog tick’s distinguishing characteristics, what it feeds on, and its active seasons, to help avoid exposure to vector-borne disease.

Explore the characteristics of the recently introduced invasive species Asian longhorned tick and how it is already causing infestations in herds of animals across the eastern United States.

Aprenda a identificar las especies de garrapatas más comunes en Pensilvania, como las garrapatas de patas negras, las garrapatas americanas del perro, las garrapatas estrella solitaria, las garrapatas marrones del perro, y las garrapatas de cuernos largos.

Al oír hablar de la garrapata estrella solitaria, es posible que piense que solo habita en Texas; no obstante, con el aumento de las temperaturas, estas garrapatas están atravesando los Montes Apalaches y llegando a Pensilvania. Identificar una garrapata estrella solitaria es fácil. Aprenda a identificarlas con este video.

Conozca las características distintivas de la garrapata marrón del perro, de qué se alimenta y las épocas del año en las que está activa para limitar su exposición a las enfermedades que transmite.