Photo Album

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Mark Kaelin, EdD, Co-Workshop Leader,

informs
participants that the workshop will be
pedagogically structured on twelve enduring
epidemiological understandings, big epidemiologic
ideas that are at the heart of the discipline and
have lasting value outside of the classroom.
2
Mr. Nicholas Weimmer, science teacher at
Patersons Eastside High School,
teaches his workshop colleagues about
epidemiologic surveillance using the
Young Epidemiology Scholars
teaching unit Casualties of War
The Short- and
Long-Term Effects of the 1945 Atomic Bomb Attacks
on Japan.
3
Mr. Nicholas Weimmer, science teacher at
Patersons Eastside High School,
teaches his workshop colleagues
about epidemiologic surveillance using the
Young Epidemiology Scholars
teaching unit Casualties of War
The Short- and
Long-Term Effects of the 1945 Atomic Bomb Attacks
on Japan.
4
Ms. Karen Browne, science teacher at Caldwells
James Caldwell High School, teaches her workshop
colleagues about descriptive epidemiology using
the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit
Mortality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
5
Ms. Karen Browne, science teacher at Caldwells
James Caldwell High School and Mr. Khurshid
Siddiqui, science teacher at Patersons Eastside
High School, teach their workshop colleagues
about descriptive epidemiology using the Young
Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit Mortality
and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
6
Ms. Karen Browne, science teacher at Caldwells
James Caldwell High School teaches her
workshop colleagues, Ms. Marian Press, science
teacher at Caldwells James Caldwell High
School and Mr. Khamis Aburmelieh, science teacher
at Patersons Eastside High School, about
descriptive epidemiology using the Young
Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit
Mortality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
7
Epidemiologist, Diane Marie St. George, PhD,
Co-Workshop Leader,
looks on from Olney, Maryland, via
teleconference.
8
Participants in the first Young Epidemiology
Scholars Teaching Units Professional Development
Workshop. From left to right Nicholas Weimer,
Eastside High School, Paterson, Khamis
Aburmelieh, Eastside High School, Paterson,
Barbara Schneider, Englewood Academy, Marian
Press, James Caldwell High School, Diane Marie
St. George, Walden University, Jacqueline
Gilker, Kearny High School, Ana Alea-Schlichting,
Eastside High School, Paterson, Mark Kaelin,
Montclair State University, Karen Browne, James
Caldwell High School, and Khurshid Siddiqui,
Eastside High School, Paterson. (Not present,
Maria Sanchez, Kearny High School.)
Epidemiologist Diane Marie St. George joins us
from Olney, Maryland, via teleconference.
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Ms. Ana Alea-Schlichting, science teacher at
Patersons East Side High School, teaches her
workshop colleagues about the importance of
having a precise case definition when attempting
to count a health related phenomenon using the
Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit -
Descriptive Epidemiology of Births to Teenage
Mothers.
10
Ms. Ana Alea-Schlichting, science teacher at
Patersons East Side High School and Ms. Barbara
Schneider science teacher at Englewoods Academy
_at_ Englewood, do what epidemiologists do count,
divide, and compare CDC.
11
Ms. Marian Press, science teacher at Caldwells
James Caldwell High School, prepares to teach her
workshop colleagues about confounding, one of the
possible reasons why things like an exposure and
a disease can turn up together in an
epidemiologic study, using the Young Epidemiology
Scholars teaching unit Confounding in
Epidemiology.
12
Ms. Marian Press, science teacher at Caldwells
James Caldwell High School, Mr. Nicolas Weimer,
science teacher at Patersons Eastside High
School, and Mr. Khamis Aburmelieh, science
teacher at Patersons Eastside High School, teach
their workshop colleagues about confounding, one
of the possible reasons why things, like an
exposure and a disease can turn up together in an
epidemiologic study, using the Young Epidemiology
Scholars teaching unit Confounding in
Epidemiology.
13
Ms. Barbara Schneider, science teacher at
Englewoods Academies _at_ Englewood, teaches her
workshop colleagues about selection bias, one of
the possible reasons why things, like an exposure
and a disease can turn up together in an
epidemiologic study, using the Young Epidemiology
Scholars teaching unit Observational studies
and Bias in Epidemiology.
14
Ms. Maria Sanchez, science teacher at Kearnys
Kearny High School and Mr. Khurshid Siddiqui,
science teacher at Patersons Eastside High
School, teach their workshop colleagues about
information bias, one of the possible reasons why
things, like an exposure and a disease can turn
up together in an epidemiologic study, using the
Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit
Observational studies and Bias in Epidemiology.
15
Dr. Denis Nash, epidemiologist from Columbias
Mailman School of Public Health, speaks on the
final night of the workshop about the role
epidemiology played in identifying the cause of
what was later called a West Nile virus outbreak.
16
Aman Prasad, former national winner of the Young
Epidemiology Scholars Competition, speaks to
workshop participants about the role his high
school teacher played in preparing and mentoring
him for the competition.
17
As Co-Workshop Leaders, Diane Marie St. George
and Mark Kaelin look on, Marian Press, science
teacher at James Caldwell High School, explains
how controls are selected for a case-control
study, using the Young Epidemiology Scholars
teaching unit Case-Control Study.
18
Ms. Marian Press, science teacher at Caldwells
James Caldwell High School, prepares to teach her
workshop colleagues about the case-control study
design, one of several epidemiological study
designs used to test hypotheses, using the Young
Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit
Case-Control Study.
19
Nicholas Weimmer, Eastside High School, thinks
about how he would teach his students about a
randomized control trial, as Mark Kaelin,
Co-Workshop Leader, makes a note to explain the
difference between random selection and random
assignment.