The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation’s Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center (SICTC), in collaboration with Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (SWI-AHEC), is hosting a one-week summer public health camp, Go Viral: Be a Disease Detective, for students currently in the eighth grade in Gibson, Spencer, Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties who are interested in exploring health-related career fields. The camp, scheduled for June 2-6, 2014, is a half-day (morning) program that will focus on topics related to disease outbreaks, as well as public health history, principles and careers. Participants will learn about:
- Basic epidemiology
- Disease outbreak investigation
- Disease tracking
- Integration of public health with medical care
- Variety of careers involved in public health
Participants will conduct an outbreak investigation, as well as interact with public health professionals. Cost for the summer camp is $20 per participant. To register, visit www.sictc.com and click on the Go Viral link on the top banner. Individuals interested in participating in the camp must register by April 14, 2014.
Contact Gwen Barnett, health science education instructor at the SICTC, by phone at 812-435-8808 or by email at Gwen.Barnett@evsc.k12.in.us or Kerseclia Patterson, academic outreach coordinator at Southwest Indiana AHEC, by phone at 812-228-5048 or by email at kpatterson@usi.edu.
