You will be researching an individual and their contribution to community and public health. Because of the size of this project, you will be doing the first part of this project in Week 3 then adding the final portion in Week 5. You have the option of writing a paper or putting together a presentation. Details are below the outline. Overall, you will be researching an historical figure in the public health world, their contribution to public health, and how their work helped shape the public health system. Furthermore, you will be analyzing how their contribution from the past continues to contribute to today's public health system and how it might guide future work within the industry.
Follow this outline to help formulate your paper or presentation:
ACTION: Select one of the historical figures and their associated public health topic
• Margaret Higgins Sanger/Reproductive health
• Rachel Carson/Environmental health
• Franklin D. Roosevelt/Health care administration
• John Snow/Communicable and infectious disease
• Luther T. Terry/Smoking
• W. E. B. DuBois/Social determinants of health
• Larry Kramer/Health activism
• An individual of your own choice: YOU MUST OBTAIN INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL IN ADVANCE
• GRADED ELEMENT: Describe your selected person's biographical background (i.e. experience).
• GRADED ELEMENT: Analyze the climate of the time period in terms of political, socioeconomic, environmental and technological context in which this person worked
• GRADED ELEMENT: Examine the personal beliefs of your person that prompted this work.
• GRADED ELEMENT: Examine how this individual overcame and/or confronted any adversities to succeed in his/her task
• GRADED ELEMENT: Describe the final outcome of this individual's contribution to community and/or public health
• GRADED ELEMENT: Explain what his/her contribution did for overall community and/or public health at the time
• GRADED ELEMENT: Explain why this contribution was so important at that particular point in history.