Daily Lessons for Teaching Deadliest Enemy

Michael T. Osterholm
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Daily Lessons for Teaching Deadliest Enemy

Michael T. Osterholm
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Introduction - Chapter 6))

Objective

The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze the public health lessons Osterholm learned in his work as an epidemiologist during the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. Osterholm realized that people were desperate for an effective vaccine and eager to believe some public health officials and politicians who, as it turned out, offered unrealistically short timelines for vaccine development and availability. After speaking with a gay men's group in Minnesota in 1985, Osterholm realized it would be harder to convince people to change their behavior than he had anticipated.

Lesson

Class Discussion: What did Osterholm think when he heard then-Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announce in 1985 that an HIV/AIDS vaccine would be available within two years? What was the reaction of the gay men's group Osterholm spoke to shortly after Heckler's announcement when he told them...

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