Name: Epidemiology for Everyone!
Start: 2024-11-16T11:15:00-0500
End: 2024-11-16T11:45:00-0500

Saturday November 16, 2024 11:15am - 11:45am EST

Speaker: Marjorie Kelly Cowan, McGraw Hill author of Microbiology Fundamentals and Microbiology: A Systems Approach. Pronouns: she/her

Our experience with COVID-19 is exposing a pressing need for public understanding of a few basic epidemiological concepts. Not the hard stuff (math), but the fundamental principles. Kelly will make the case for epidemiology as a topic worth studying by allied health students, in their microbiology courses. She has previously made the case for teaching epidemiology in a liberal arts curriculum!

Suggested audience: Instructors of allied health students, Community college professors, everybody.

Speakers

Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Professor Emerita, Miami University Ohio

I fell in love with teaching microbiology to non-majors and allied health students because we start with a clean slate! It really makes you consider what it would be like to hear these things for the first time. That led to me to writing a textbook that embraced the same attitude... Read More →

Saturday November 16, 2024 11:15am - 11:45am EST
Allegheny I Federated Tower, 1000 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15275

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2024 ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators

Marjorie Kelly Cowan

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