Fernando M. Reimers et a].

2. Students will evaluate awareness—raising campaigns for effectiveness
and apply that understanding to campaign projects.
3. Students will reflect on personal experiences with raising awareness

around a public health issue.

Overview

In this unit, the students will act on their knowledge of a public health is—
sue and create an awareness—raising campaign on public health. The goals
of this project are for the students to see themselves as actors and advocates
for equity and fairness in public health issues and to engage in a project
that allows them to contribute to public health in a meaningful way. In this
project, students should grapple with the complexities of their chosen issue
and reflect on their challenges and successes both along the way and after
the project’s completion.

Activity SPH5.1

An Experiential Learning Project

Students create an experiential learning project in which they tackle a global
health problem. They should focus on projects that move the needle on
the way people behave, on public policy around public health, or on com—
munity access to health care and information. Students should be allowed
to choose a topic of interest and should form groups in the class around
that topic. For example, they could choose increased resistance to medical
treatment and antibiotics, food and water contamination, risk behaviors,
sedentary lifestyles, access to vaccination or prevention, substance abuse,
mental health, access to preventative care or acute care, or access to afford—
able healthy food. By this point, students are equipped to explore not only
the issue itself but also the linkages between the issue and economics, cul—
ture, history, access to resources, and equity.

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