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310119
Engaging Youth for Careers in Sciences and Public Health
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Robin Perry-Smith, MHA
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Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, Hershey, PA
Mark A. Kaelin, EdD
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Health and Nutrition Sciences, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Wendy W. Huebner, PhD
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Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Robin Taylor Wilson, PhD, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
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Department of Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology Division, Penn State University, Hershey, PA
According to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Association of Schools of Public Health, the United States (US) faces significant shortages of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates and public health professionals needed to address persistent public health problems—with needs as high as a 34% annual increase over the next decade alone. The Early Preparation and Inspiration for Careers in the Biomedical Sciences (EPIC) project is designed to prepare and inspire students towards STEM college majors through project-based learning in epidemiology. EPIC targets a cohort of over 800 ninth grade students in five diverse high schools using a randomized intervention design. This presentation will provide an overview of the theoretical framework and project design and its major components, including a student-driven team-based learning model, tracking of student motivation, and formal career assessment and planning among a cohort of ninth graders that will be followed through twelfth grade. The intervention will also provide student summer camps followed with out-of-school time programming entitled Epi Challenge(Epi-C). Epi-C will create authentic scientific experiments through mentored project-based learning. The theoretical framework implies that a project-based authentic epidemiologic research experience will prepare and inspire youth to become engaged in STEM subjects, and possibly public health careers.
Learning Areas:
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Learning Objectives:
Define an after school student-driven team-based learning model to engage youth in STEM and public Health.
Discuss how the intervention is consistent with the theories of self-efficacy, and development theories of self-concept within the context career development over the life-span.
Identify career assessment tools relevant to public health careers in high schools.
Keyword(s): Health Promotion and Education, Youth
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the co-principal or program administrator on multiple grants focusing on health promotion within the community. Among my interests have been the development and implementation of engaging youth in school-based health programs; training ninth and tenth graders to be STD and HIV Peer-Educators within middle and high schools. Assist with the development and implementation of academic-community partnerships. Community backdground expanding over 20 years knowing the dynamics of youth, community engagement and relationships.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
