Description
Students explore how public health professionals work to keep entire communities healthy. Through real-world examples, students learn how public health goes beyond individual patient care to prevent disease, address community health concerns, and improve health outcomes. Students are also introduced to the wide variety of careers that contribute to public health—from epidemiology and community health to environmental health, policy, data, and leadership.
Objectives
Understand the difference between individual healthcare and public health.
Explore a variety of public health careers and career pathways.
Identify ways public health professionals prevent disease and improve community health.
Examine how factors such as environment, access, behavior, data, and policy can affect the health of a community.
Apply public health thinking to a real-world community health challenge
Recognize how different public health professionals work together to solve problems and improve health outcomes. .
Resources
Public Health Careers Presentation
- Playlist: 10 Crash Course Videos for Public Health
- CDC Website: Solve the Outbreak - Gamification: Students will play the role of an epidemiologist. They are provided a scenario and must try to identify the source of an outbreak and how to remedy.