Mark Kaelin, EdD, Co-Workshop Leader, informs participants that the workshop will be pedagogically structured on twelve enduring epidemiological understandings, big epidemiologic ideas that are at the heart of the discipline and have lasting value outside of the classroom.

Mr. Nicholas Weimmer, science teacher at Paterson’s Eastside High School, teaches his workshop colleagues about epidemiologic surveillance using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Casualties of War: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of the 1945 Atomic Bomb Attacks on Japan.

Ms. Karen Browne, science teacher at Caldwell’s James Caldwell High School, teaches her workshop colleagues about descriptive epidemiology using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Mortality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Ms. Karen Browne, science teacher at Caldwell’s James Caldwell High School and Mr. Khurshid Siddiqui, science teacher at Paterson’s Eastside High School, teach their workshop colleagues about descriptive epidemiology using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Mortality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Ms. Karen Browne, science teacher at Caldwell’s James Caldwell High School teaches her workshop colleagues, Ms. Marian Press, science teacher at Caldwell’s James Caldwell High School and Mr. Khamis Aburmelieh, science teacher at Paterson’s Eastside High School, about descriptive epidemiology using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Mortality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Epidemiologist, Diane Marie St. George, PhD, Co-Workshop Leader, looks on from Olney, Maryland, via teleconference.

Participants in the first Young Epidemiology Scholars Teaching Units Professional Development Workshop. From left to right: Nicholas Weimer, Eastside High School, Paterson, Khamis Aburmelieh, Eastside High School, Paterson, Barbara Schneider, Englewood Academy, Marian Press, James Caldwell High School, Diane Marie St. George*, Walden University, Jacqueline Gilker, Kearny High School, Ana Alea-Schlichting, Eastside High School, Paterson, Mark Kaelin, Montclair State University, Karen Browne, James Caldwell High School, and Khurshid Siddiqui, Eastside High School, Paterson. (Not present, Maria Sanchez, Kearny High School.) * Epidemiologist Diane Marie St. George joins us from Olney, Maryland, via teleconference.

Ms. Ana Alea-Schlichting, science teacher at Paterson’s East Side High School, teaches her workshop colleagues about the importance of having a precise case definition when attempting to count a health related phenomenon using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit - Descriptive Epidemiology of Births to Teenage Mothers.

Ms. Ana Alea-Schlichting, science teacher at Paterson’s East Side High School and Ms. Barbara Schneider science teacher at Englewood’s Englewood, do what epidemiologists do – count, divide, and compare – CDC.

Ms. Marian Press, science teacher at Caldwell’s James Caldwell High School, prepares to teach her workshop colleagues about confounding, one of the possible reasons why things like an exposure and a disease can turn up together in an epidemiologic study, using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Confounding in Epidemiology.

Ms. Marian Press, science teacher at Caldwell’s James Caldwell High School, Mr. Nicolas Weimer, science teacher at Paterson’s Eastside High School, and Mr. Khamis Aburmelieh, science teacher at Paterson’s Eastside High School, teach their workshop colleagues about confounding, one of the possible reasons why things, like an exposure and a disease can turn up together in an epidemiologic study, using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Confounding in Epidemiology.

Ms. Barbara Schneider, science teacher at Englewood’s Englewood, teaches her workshop colleagues about selection bias, one of the possible reasons why things, like an exposure and a disease can turn up together in an epidemiologic study, using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Observational studies and Bias in Epidemiology.

Ms. Maria Sanchez, science teacher at Kearny’s Kearny High School and Mr. Khurshid Siddiqui, science teacher at Paterson’s Eastside High School, teach their workshop colleagues about information bias, one of the possible reasons why things, like an exposure and a disease can turn up together in an epidemiologic study, using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Observational studies and Bias in Epidemiology.

Dr. Denis Nash, epidemiologist from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, speaks on the final night of the workshop about the role epidemiology played in identifying the cause of what was later called a West Nile virus outbreak.

Aman Prasad, former national winner of the Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition, speaks to workshop participants about the role his high school teacher played in preparing and mentoring him for the competition.

As Co-Workshop Leaders, Diane Marie St. George and Mark Kaelin look on, Marian Press, science teacher at James Caldwell High School, explains how controls are selected for a case- control study, using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Case-Control Study.

Ms. Marian Press, science teacher at Caldwell’s James Caldwell High School, prepares to teach her workshop colleagues about the case-control study design, one of several epidemiological study designs used to test hypotheses, using the Young Epidemiology Scholars teaching unit – Case-Control Study.

Nicholas Weimmer, Eastside High School, thinks about how he would teach his students about a randomized control trial, as Mark Kaelin, Co-Workshop Leader, makes a note to explain the difference between random selection and random assignment.