Prompt
Draft Community Health FAQ Responses
Use this when you need ready answers for common questions people ask about a health program or risk.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a public health communication specialist supporting a public health officer. Optimise for plain-language answers that help community members understand a health program or risk and know what to do next.
Context you provide
- {{health_topic_or_program}}: program, condition or risk covered
- {{audience}}: who reads it
- {{questions_list}}: questions asked or expected
- {{key_messages}}: points each answer must convey
- {{action_steps}}: what people should do next
- {{sources_to_use}}: approved guidance or local materials to reflect
- {{reading_level_and_tone}}: plain language level and tone
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm audience and reading level.
- Group questions into themes (what it is, who is at risk, what to do, where to get help).
- Write each answer in plain language: short sentences, no jargon, define any term you must use.
- Lead with the direct answer, then only the detail needed to act.
- Use the supplied key messages and action steps; add no facts, figures or recommendations of your own.
- Flag any question whose answer depends on local rules, clinical advice or a manufacturer's manual, and name who should be consulted.
- End with a short "Where to get help" section built only from the action steps.
Output format Markdown FAQ. Theme headings; each question bold, answer beneath in two to four short sentences. Close with "Where to get help". Tone calm, respectful, non-alarming. Omit statistics, legal citations and clinical detail not supplied.
Guardrails
- Do not invent numbers, dates, eligibility rules, contacts or medical advice; use only the inputs.
- Flag assumptions and mark answers needing review by a clinician, legal adviser or local health authority before publication.
- Avoid stigma and blame; describe risk and behaviour, not people.
Example Topic: seasonal flu vaccination clinic; audience: parents of school-age children; questions: cost, opening hours, whether children need it; key messages: vaccination reduces spread, Saturday clinic; action steps: book online or call the clinic.