Public Health 101
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Ohio State
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CAREERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
100

This field focuses on preventing disease and protecting the health of entire communities.

What is Public Health?

100

Who is the current dean of The Ohio State University College of Public Health?

Who is Dr. Paula H. Song?

100

Ohio State's mascot.

Who is Brutus Buckeye?

100

Which TV show features characters named Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Joey, and Phoebe?

What is "Friends"?

100

This person studies how diseases spread.

Who is an Epidemiologist?

200

This refers to conditions where people live, work, learn, and play that affect their health.

What are social determinants of health?

200

The undergraduate public health degree currently has this many specializations.

What is three?

200

Ohio State's official colors.

What are Scarlet and Gray?

200

What is the name of the fictional town where the TV show "The Simpsons" is set?

What is Springfield?

200

This person works with health data and numbers.

Who is a Biostatistician?

300

Instead of treating 100 people after they become sick, public health tries to identify ways to prevent those 100 people from becoming sick in the first place.

What is prevention?

300

This course is part of the current basic Public Health pre-req requirements for Ohio State students seeking to change into the Public Health major.

What is PUBHLTH 2010?

300

Complete the phrase: “O-H-____!”

What is I-O?

300

What is the name of the actor who portrayed Captain Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series?

Who is Johnny Depp?

300

This person teaches people about healthy behaviors.

Who is a Health Educator?

400

This type of public health emergency occurs when a disease spreads across multiple countries or continents.

What is a pandemic?

400

How many divisions does the College of Public Health consist of? Please list at least 3.

What are 5.

What are Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Promotion, Health Services Management and Policy? 

400

How many Brutus Buckeye statues are on campus?

What is more than 30?! (34)

400

I Will Always Love You’ by Whitney Houston was the soundtrack of which famous movie?

What is The Bodyguard?

400

This person studies how the environment affects human health.

Who is an Environmental Health Scientist?

500

A public health professional notices that one neighborhood has significantly higher rates of asthma than another and investigates why. This is an example of addressing this major public health concept.

What is health inequity?

500

We hope you were paying attention during the introduction. Could you name three undergraduate ambassadors?

Who is ... 

500

Since 2012, how many times has Ohio State University defeated Michigan?

What is 9?

500

How many seasons of "Grey's Anatomy" are there?

What is 22?

500

This person helps manage healthcare programs and organizations.

Who is a Health Services Manager?

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