Wk 2 Summative Assessment: Public Health Presentation
As a public health analyst (currently reporting to an epidemiologist), you will focus on analyzing the relationship between epidemiology and public health. Your skill in public health is essential to promoting health in your community, regardless of which health care sector your future career takes you to. The PERIE model is a tool youll use to analyze each component of a given health issue for successful implementation through action plans and positive change outcomes.
Preparation
Review the PERIE model and process described in Ch. 2, Evidence-Based Public Health, of your course textbook, Public Health 101: Improving Community Health (4th ed.).
Public health is first and foremost a state responsibility. States may retain their authority, voluntarily request, or accept help from the federal government, or delegate their responsibility and/or authority to locate agencies at the city, county, or other local levels (Riegelman & Kirkwood, 2025, p. 271).
Watch the following video as you prepare for the assessment:
- Communicable Disease Threats and Responses
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Communicable Disease Threats and Responses
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Preventing and controlling the spread of disease is at the core of Public Health.
One way we do that is by stopping communicable diseases.
Communicable diseases are illnesses that spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person or from a surface or food.
Some examples include HIV measles salmonella and chickenpox.
most common forms of spread include food sexual intercourse insect bites contact with contaminated surfaces droplets or skin contact zika is an example of a communical disease and it spread to people primarily through the bite of an infected mosquito. What makes zika unique is that it’s no vaccine to prevent it and the best way to prevent it is by decreasing the spread of disease by mosquitoes and protecting and protecting yourself from mosquito bites. Zika can cause birth defects which makes it really important the public health practitioners in the healthcare system work to keep pregnant women safe.
I had the opportunity to work on the zika response in Puerto Rico.
During my time there I interacted with the community to learn what the challenges are and implementing some of our Public Health interventions.
One of the things that we would recommending is to wear long sleeves.
Well, this is a challenge if you’re on a very human Island.
So we talk with the community members and figured out what types of fabrics could we suggest what other things could we suggest there might be really doable and more likely for people to implement.
This really helped people understand and actually take action to keep themselves safe.
Monkey pox is another example and it’s a rare disease that’s caused by an infection with the monkey pox virus.
In recent outbreaks of monkeypox is being critical to work with Partners to help us reach communities who are at risk.
For example, one of the populations that we really wanted to reach were men who have sex with men.
So to do so we worked with organizations to craft appropriate messages and to figure out the best way to disseminate them.
One example is collaborating with some of the organizers at appride parade.
During this we were able to administer vaccines and share information.
These examples happen at the local level state and federal level.
I can think of many examples in my career where we’ve worked with local organizations to reach populations.
Norovirus is another example. It’s a very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea.
You may have heard it with examples with cruise ships.
They’ve been many examples throughout the years where many people have been on cruise ships experiencing vomiting had diarrhea and it should may have had to come back and people may have had to isolate in their cabins.
Because norovirus is spread easily through water. There’s even been an example of cases and outbreaks on the Grand Canyon. You might be wondering what we do as public health practitioners to stop these diseases.
And that answer will vary depending on the situation.
One thing I like to offer is that as you continue your career in health be it in public health or as a health administrator. Think about how you can be a disease detective and follow diseases to learn more about how to control them. And when you learn more share their information in a way that reaches audiences that need it.
Assessment Deliverable
Using the issue or disease you chose for your Wk 1 Summary – Government Management of Health Issue assignment, create a 12- to 16-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes to summarize your findings. In your presentation:
- Explain epidemiology and its relationship to public health.
- Analyze your selected health issue using the PERIE model.
- Problem
- Describe the selected issue or disease.
- Identify the underlying nature and cause of the selected issue or disease.
- Etiology
- Analyze the uses and effects of demographic data, surveillance data, and vital statistics in public and community health.
- Identify the demographics and the effect of the selected issue or disease on the community.
- Recommendations
- Analyze possible solutions for the selected issue or disease.
- Choose the best possible solution with the available information and provide a justification.
- Implementation
- Describe the coordination between the community and state that would need to occur to implement the chosen solution.
- Explain the resources (e.g., funding) needed to successfully implement the solution.
- Evaluation
- Describe the measurable outcomes of the solutions success or possibility of success (e.g., number of provided screenings).
- Recommend additional suggestions for treatment or resolution.
Format your references according to APA guidelines. Include at least 2 references and speaker notes for all slides (except the title and reference slides)
Submit your assessment in Microsoft PowerPoint (not a PDF).
Assessment Support
- for guidance on deliverable expectations.
- Examine the visual of the to follow an example through the process.
- Reference the PowerPoint video below for guidance on creating a presentation.
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How to Make a Presentation
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Hi, I’m Julie. Today’s tip how to make a presentation.
You ready to share what you know with your audience first choose your software.
all students can access Microsoft PowerPoint, but if you want to use a different option check with your instructor outline your top main points with details to support them.
You should have about as many main points as the number of slides that you want in your presentation. You can use a template or you can start with a blank slide.
Make a title slide with the title of your presentation your name the course number and instructor’s name and the data will be submitted. You might want to check to see if there are any other requirements for your title page or title slides that are specific to your course make a slide for each main point and you’re going to want to try to limit these little only one main point shows on each slide.
If you’re showing your presentation, you want your audience to focus on that main point instead of putting out everything at the same time then add important details that support your main points keep these as brief as possible and try to limit them. You don’t want to have more than about Six Bullets on each slide, give or take a few because you don’t want too much information crowding out the focus on that main point next organize your ideas to help the audience follow along you can read this out loud to yourself or you can practice with a friend who can help give you some feedback to see what might be too much what might not be enough and where your audience might get confused if you’re doing this for Assignment make sure that you’ve met all the assignment requirements. Once your main content is ready. It’s time to add your speaker notes or graphics.
Speaker notes may be different for each class. You may need to prepare notes as a viewer the speaker. You may need to prepare notes as if someone else was the speaker. You may need to prepare notes just to let your faculty member know what your thoughts were and preparing that particular slide.
Graphics can come in lots of different forms. You can have charts you can have pictures you can have clipart just be sure that whatever graphic you use that you have the permission to use it.
That it matches the points that you’re trying to support and that you put it close to the information that it’s supporting. If you used any information from Readings or resources add citations to show where you found it.
Finish with at least one concluding slide. Here’s where you can check for questions provide a final thought Or List resources that you cited in your presentation.
Look over your slides and make all final edits cut what you don’t need check your grammar and adjust the appearance of your slides.
If you want them add timings or transitions between your slides at this point, and don’t forget to save your work finally be sure to practice before presenting to an audience.
Now, you know how to create a presentation.
Reference:
Riegelman, R., & Kirkwood, B. (2025). Public health 101: Improving community health (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.