Careers
This professional tracks disease outbreaks and analyzes health trends.
What is an epidemiologist?
This term refers to the number of new cases of a disease in a specific time period.
What is incidence?
This nurse is known as the founder of modern nursing and improved sanitation in military hospitals.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This organization coordinates international public health efforts.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This amendment created Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
What is the Social Security Amendments of 1965?
This public health career focuses on educating communities about wellness and preventive care.
What is a health educator?
This is the total number of existing cases of a disease in a population.
What is prevalence?
He developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
This viral disease was eradicated in 1980.
What is smallpox?
This vaccine helped drastically reduce measles in the U.S.
What is the MMR vaccine?
These professionals create policies and manage public health programs at local, state, or federal levels.
What is a public health administrator?
This type of study compares a group with a disease to one without it.
What is a case-control study?
This U.S. Surgeon General made waves with warnings about tobacco use in the 1960s.
Who is Luther Terry?
This mosquito-borne disease is a leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is malaria?
This major 21st-century law expanded health coverage in the U.S.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This type of public health worker investigates environmental hazards like lead or air pollution.
What is an environmental health specialist?
This iconic epidemiologist mapped a cholera outbreak to a water pump in 1854 London.
Who is John Snow?
This Black physician was a pioneer in blood banking and trauma care.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
These global goals, adopted by the UN in 2015, aim to improve health and wellbeing.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
In 2003, this international treaty aimed to reduce tobacco use worldwide.
What is the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control?
These legal professionals may work to protect health rights and enforce health laws.
What is a public health attorney?
The "R0" value in epidemiology measures this.
What is the basic reproduction number of an infection?
She was a leader in family planning and founded Planned Parenthood.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
This initiative aims to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.
What is UNAIDS 95-95-95?
This 2020 event dramatically changed global public health practices.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?