Curated OER
Medical Mysteries
Use the theme of medical mystery to engage high schoolers in analyzing the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health. They will explore problem solving and mystery diseases as they practice and improve public...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Media Literacy
Activities in this comprehensive interactive tutorial will involve determining the strengths and limitations of epidemiological reports. You will also evaluate media messages and develop your own.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Epidemiologist
Being an epidemiologist is like being a detective, at least a medical detective. Read about the many different ways the epidemiologist looks into medical conditions to see what causes them. Science Buddies' career profile lays out the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Epidemiology
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will not only learn what epidemiology is but you will also learn the role of epidemiology in public health practice. Also, you will explore the history of epidemiology to understand how its...
PBS
Nova: Disease Detective
How would you do as an epidmeiologist? Find out in this interactive simulation. Your mission will be to interview people and trace the transmission of a mysterious disease.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Disease Detective
As the local epidemiologist, it is your job to investigate a mysterious disease outbreak. Several people in a camping area have become sick with an unknown serious illness. Trace the outbreak to its source using the basic methods of...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Through a series of lessons, teachers can introduce students to epidemiology. Each lessons includes activities with teacher background information. The lessons can all be taught together or teacher can choose ones most applicable to...
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute Online: Dceg
This site from the National Cancer Institute gives information on studying cancer epidemiology. Look under "Research programs" to find out information on specific areas of epidemiology.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tracking a Virus
Students simulate the spread of a virus such as HIV through a population by "sharing" (but not drinking) the water in a plastic cup with several classmates. Although invisible, the water in a few of the cups will already be tainted with...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Neutrophil Proliferation and Disease
Practice questions over neutrophil proliferation and disease. Passage 2.
University of California
University of California: Department of Epidemiology
This site has a lot of information on courses offered at the University of California's School of Medicine. There is also a list of research articles on the subject to help you find out more about it.