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Div BSeason 2027

Disease Detectives

2027 topic: Epidemiology and public health investigations

Use epidemiology skills to investigate disease outbreaks: rates, study design, and prevention.

Life, Personal & Social Science

What this event is about

Students analyze outbreak data, calculate rates, interpret study designs, and recommend public-health actions.

Study plan

  1. Memorize definitions: incidence, prevalence, attack rate, case-fatality, odds ratio vs relative risk.
  2. Practice 2×2 tables until calculations are automatic.
  3. Learn common study types (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional) and their strengths.
  4. Work invitational Disease Detectives tests for timing.

Tips

Always write units and show the formula. Bring a clean formula sheet if rules allow note sheets.

Resources

Start with the official SOINC page and Scioly wiki, then use the topic links for deeper study. Practice tests live on the Scioly Test Exchange.

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