Assignment: Epidemiology Presentation
Details
• Describe the function of epidemiology in apublic healthcontext.
Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment:
Apply the basic terminology and definitions of epidemiology.
Instructions
In this scenario you have recently been hired by a Public Health department in a rural community. The department has never had an Epidemiologist on staff and they are not entirely sure what epidemiology is. Your new boss has asked you to conduct a training session for the rest of the staff to orient them to the field of epidemiology.
Requirements
The presentation should be visually appealing, geared toward a professional audience, and should include the following sections:
• A cover slide with your name and presentationtitle (1slide)
• An explanation of what epidemiology is (1slide)
• A short timeline of epidemiology - The timeline should include important people and events in epidemiological history over the last 100 years.(7-10 slides)
• An overview of the different types ofepidemiology including environmental, social, community, and forensic (4-6slides)
• An explanation/example of how clinical and epidemiological perspectives of a health issuevary (1-2slides)
• Links to a least two additional resources that provide information where people can learnmore about epidemiology - Provide the link and a brief description of what the resource is. (1-2slides)
• Referenceslide(s)
• Include speaker notes for eachslide.