The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) addresses a wealth of health issues that can be integrated into core middle and high school science education curricula. The CDC Science Ambassador Program partners your public health expertise with that of current science educators to create innovative, relevant, and exciting lesson plans for middle and high school students. At the completion of the program, participating educators will have developed lesson plans based on subject matter expertise.
The CDC Science Ambassador Program is a chance for you to work directly with science educators, affect both educators and students in a positive manner, foster a passion for various public health programs in educators, and encourage students to seek public health careers. You will help develop a cadre of dynamic and committed public health professionals. CDC Science Ambassador Lecturer positions are open to CDC staff only.
What you will gain
- An opportunity to help educators develop exemplary lesson plans
- A partnership with the educational community
- The opportunity to reach adolescents with important public health messages
- A chance to integrate public health topics into core science education
- A venue for a further relationship between yourself, educators, and students
Your role as a lecturer will require you to
- Give a presentation on your health topic at the CDC Science Ambassador workshop
- Participate in a discussion and lesson plan brainstorming session with participants following your presentation
- Meet with teams of educators to provide scientific advice on lesson plan topics during the workshop
- Review 1 to 2 lesson plans created by educators for scientific accuracy.
Past CDC Science Ambassador Topics and Lecturers
| Autism Spectrum Disorders: Conditions of Urgent Public Health |
Catherine Rice, PhD |
| Birth Defects and Folic Acid |
Alina L. Flores, MPH, CHES |
| CDC and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities |
Adam Brush, MSW, MPH |
| Diabetes and Public Health Speak: A Crash Course on the Public Health Aspect of Diabetes |
Pamela Allweiss, MD, MSPH |
| Early Hearing Detection and Intervention |
Krista Biernath, Marcus Gaffney, and Marcia Victor, MPH |
| Epidemiology |
Adolfo Correa, MD, MPH, PhD |
| Epidemiology of Hereditary Blood Disorders and Genetic Hemophilia A and B |
Vanessa Byams, Nicole Dowling, and Stacy League |
| Epidemiology Outbreak |
Dave Erickson, DDS, MPH, PhD |
| Epidemiology Surveillance |
Laura Williams, MPH |
| Family History: A Disease Prevention Tool for Public Health and Preventive Medicine |
Paula Yoon, MPH, ScD |
| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome |
Jacquelyn Bertrand, PhD and Louise Floyd, DSN, RN |
| Folic Acid: We Have Come a Long Way Baby |
Alina Flores, MPH, CHES |
| Gastroschisis |
Laura Williams, MPH |
| Gene Environment Interaction |
Cynthia Moore, MD, PhD |
| Genetic Testing |
Ridgely Fisk Green, MMSc, PhD
and Richard Olney, MD, MPH |
| Georgia Learning Connections |
Karen Muska, MS |
| Influencing Public Health: From Research to Policy |
Caroline Lagoy, MPH |
| Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program |
Jim Kucik, MPH |
| Muscular Dystrophy |
Katherine Kolor, MS, PhD and Aileen Kenneson, MS, PhD |
| Public Health Technology |
Tom Savel, MD |
| Risk Factors for Birth Defects |
Peggy Honein, PhD, MPH and Jennita Reefhuis, PhD |
| Spanish Language Folic Acid Campaign Evaluation Survey |
Alina Flores, MPH, CHES |
| Statistics and Public Health |
Owen Devine, PhD |
| Surveillance and Epidemiology |
Jim Kucik, MPH |
| The Autism Spectrum Disorders: Conditions of Urgent Public Health |
Catherine Rice, PhD |
| The Sponge Years: Cognitive and Behavioral Development During Early Childhood |
Carla White, MPH |
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