About the CDC Disease Detective Camp
CDC Disease Detective Camp (DDC) is an educational program started by CDC’s Global Health Odyssey Museum in 2005 as a mechanism for developing a public health camp curriculum for state and county health departments. Future plans for DDC includes creating a curriculum toolkit for local health departments seeking to offer a similar camp experience.
The CDC Disease Detective Camp curriculum is based on contextual and situated cognition learning principles. By learning through hands-on activities and seminars, high school juniors and seniors at the conclusion of the camp will be able to:
- Identify five careers within public health
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic epidemiology terms
- Calculate basic epidemiologic rates given an outbreak scenario and data
- Recognize how infectious and chronic diseases are tracked in the United States
- Understand the role of public health law in protecting the public’s health in the United States.