USI, SWI-AHEC partner with EVSC for Public Health Camp

The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation's Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center (SICTC), in collaboration with Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (SWI-AHEC), is hosting a one-week summer public health camp, Go Viral: Be a Disease Detective. The camp is for students currently in the eighth and ninth grades in Gibson, Spencer, Posey, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties who are interested in exploring epidemiology and careers in public health. The camp will be held in the morning, June 6-10, 2016, at the SICTC, 1901 Lynch Road in Evansville.

Dr. Erin Reynolds, University of Southern Indiana assistant professor of health services, and Gwen Barnett, Health Science Education instructor at SICTC, will lead an "outbreak simulation" at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 7. Volunteers will role play as food poisoning victims, and the Go Viral participants will be charged with the task of determining the root cause of their illnesses, learning the basics of data collection and analysis.

For more information, contact Kerseclia Patterson, Academic Outreach Coordinator at Southwest Indiana AHEC, 812-228-5048, or email kpatterson@usi.edu.

Southwest Indiana AHEC began as a regional center in 2008, and it is hosted by the University of Southern Indiana in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. SWI-AHEC is part of a national network with a mission to improve health by leading the nation in the recruitment, training and retention of a diverse health workforce for underserved communities.

For more information about SWI-AHEC, contact Jane Friona, executive director, at 812-461-5446 or at jefriona@usi.edu.