Teach Epidemiology

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Enduring Epidemiological Understandings
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Enduring Epidemiological Understandings

• 10. Individual and societal health-related
  decisions to improve health and prevent disease
  are based on more than scientific evidence.
  Social, economic, ethical, environmental,
  cultural, and political factors may also be
  considered in decision-making.

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• 11. The effectiveness of a health-related
  strategy can be evaluated by comparing the
  frequency of disease in selected groups of people
  who were and were not exposed to the strategy.
  Costs, trade-offs, and alternative solutions must
  also be considered in evaluating the strategy.

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Enduring Epidemiological Understandings

• 12. An understanding of non-health related
  phenomena can be developed through epidemiologic
  thinking, by identifying their patterns in
  populations, formulating causal hypotheses, and
  testing those hypotheses by making group
  comparisons.

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Top 8 Reasons to Teach / Learn about Epidemiology

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Empowers students to be scientifically literate
participants in the democratic decision-making
process concerning public health policy.
Empowers students to make more informed personal
health-related decisions. Increases students
media literacy and their understanding of public
health messages. Increases students
understanding of the basis for determining
risk. Improves students mathematical and
scientific literacy. Expands students
understanding of scientific methods and develops
their critical thinking skills. Provides
students with another mechanism for exploring
important, real world questions about their
health and the health of others. Introduces
students to an array of career paths related to
the publics health.
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Workshop Objectives

• At the conclusion of the workshop, participants
  will have become more

1. Enthusiastic about the prospect of teaching
   epidemiology.
2. Likely to be an advocate for teaching
   epidemiology.
3. Knowledgeable about the science of epidemiology.
4. Capable of teaching epidemiology.
5. Likely to teach epidemiology in the next school
   year.

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Workshop Goal
To increase the frequency with which epidemiology
is taught to students in grades 6-12
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What do you mean - Teach Epidemiology?

• Explore Public Health Career Paths
• Competitions YES, Science Olympiad
• Show and Discuss Is Epidemiology in Your Future?
• Infuse Epidemiology into Existing Lesson about
  Something Else
• Create and Teach a New Epidemiology Lesson
• Teach Existing Epidemiology Lesson
• View a News Item from an Epidemiologic
  Perspective (Network)
• OTHERS???

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Post-Workshop Assessment
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Post-Workshop Assessment
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Workshop Process Evaluation
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Professional Development Workshop
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