Core Team Charter
Mission
The mission of the Epidemiology Education Movement is threefold:
- To infuse epidemiology education into curricula in grades 6-12
- To improve scientific literacy in these young people
- To increase the number of students preparing for careers in public health
Objectives / Scope
To develop, enable, and promote increased epidemiology education materials and opportunities for young people for use in school and non-school venues
Specifically, to explore and encourage/facilitate/carry out strategies and plans as follows:
- Develop epidemiology curricula
- Create new curricula and enhance existing curricula
- Develop a cadre of epidemiology curriculum developers
- Evaluate curricula
- Prepare teachers
- Implement teacher training workshops in a variety of venues
- Implement demonstration projects in a variety of school and non-school venues
- Create demand
- Infuse into educational structure (e.g., state / national standards, standardized testing, textbooks)
- Obtain support of stakeholders (e.g., educators, epidemiologists, public health community, professional organizations, scientific journals, government
- Maintain momentum
- Develop mechanisms to communicate each others' efforts (e.g., website, newsletter, list serve)
- Develop mechanisms to focus and coordinate efforts of many interested but busy stakeholders
- Assess short- and long-term goals
- Perform assessments of short-term outcomes (e.g., knowledge in epidemiology, problem-solving skills)
- Perform assessments of key long-term metrics of success (e.g., time trends in science scores, science enrollment, epidemiology careers)
Responsibilities
- Define and periodically re-calibrate scope of efforts including boundaries and specification of what is not included
- Set strategies and plans to accomplish goals
- Monitor and document team activities and accomplishments
- Monitor and document related activities and accomplishments outside team purview
- Build and continuously enhance broader team and subteams to accomplish stated goals
- Coordinate efforts and strategies within broader team and between subteams as needed, serving as central resource to maintain communications regarding activities, processes, potential partnerships, successes, and lessons learned
- Provide forums for information sharing including at least one opportunity per year to meet with broader team
- Develop/coordinate guidance documents, publications, and other external communications materials including a general use website
- Seek advisory participation in key educational, professional, government, or policy groups
- Create a network of peers / leaders for the future
Membership
The Core team shall consist of approximately 4-10 individuals who are committed to a reasonably non-trivial participation in this effort. They will actively participate in carrying out the team responsibilities as stated above. Members may be professionals in areas of epidemiology, education, government, public policy, project administration, information technology or others.
Group Values
- Commitment to, and focus on, overall objectives/scope and specific goals
- Interest in bringing new people and ideas into the effort
- Support and encouragement of others' activities that serve group goals
- Transparency in identifying potential conflicts between group and individual agendas
Group Norms
- Review and evaluate each other's suggestions, writings, etc.
- Participate in annual meeting and periodic (~1 per month) telephone conferences
- Be prepared for meetings and calls
- Complete agreed-upon assignments in a timely manner
- Encourage brainstorming, new ideas, feedback, constructive criticism
- Participate in consensus-driven decision-making
- Participate in rotating coordinator and scribe responsibilities
- Maintain enthusiasm and enjoy participating
Documentation / Communication
- Brief summaries of meetings and teleconferences will be distributed to all members
- An internet site will be maintained that includes the team charter, current membership, minutes of meetings and teleconferences, and a catalogue of issues / activities that are being pursued.
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