At a glance
- Regional training workshops offer a shorter training experience for STEM teachers than the fellowship.
- Participants practice using public health lesson plans and learn strategies to teach epidemiology and public health concepts.
- Learn more about upcoming regional training workshops and register today.
Overview
STEM teachers and other educators engage in professional learning during these one- or two-day training workshops. Participants:
- Practice using public health STEM lesson plans.
- Learn strategies to bring epidemiology and public health concepts to their classrooms.
- Meet public health experts.
The training workshops include:
- Hands-on sessions that walk-through STEM lesson plans on public health topics, including those featured in the CDC NERD Academy curriculum.
- Interactive discussions on how public health content can be used to create inquiry-based, transdisciplinary lessons and activities.
- Panels with CDC experts, state and local public health professionals, and university faculty and students from local public health programs.
Public health topics covered during the workshops could include:
- Applied epidemiology (e.g., how to investigate an outbreak like a disease detective).
- Infectious disease (e.g., COVID-19, pandemic influenza, zoonotic disease).
- Noncommunicable disease (e.g., heart disease, diabetes)
- Global health (e.g., global HIV).
- Population health (e.g., opioid overdose epidemic, the obesity epidemic).
- Environmental Health (e.g., air quality, noise-induced hearing loss, asthma)
- Public health careers
Eligibility
To be eligible to attend a workshop, you must be one of the following:
- A current middle school (6–8 grade) or high school (9–12 grade) teacher or educator
- An educational leader in a U.S. school, district, or state interested in bringing public health into a STEM classroom of program. Examples include a district curriculum coordinator, principal, department chair, STEM coordinator, state teachers' association representative, afterschool program director.
Regional training workshops are designed for those who teach STEM lessons to grade 6-12 students. The primary purpose of these workshops is to practice using public health lesson plans.
You do not need to be a U.S. citizen to participate in most regional training workshops.* Upon registration, your eligibility will be confirmed.
*U.S. citizenship is required for any regional training held at a federal CDC facility.
Registration
Register for an upcoming training workshop below. Registration will remain open for each session until filled. Additional 2025 dates and locations will be posted in early 2025.
Miami, Florida
Florida International University, STEM Transformation Institute
Monday, March 31, 2025: Time TBD
The Registration Link will be available in early 2025.