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This list provides a range of valuable resources including guidelines, organization sites, toolkits, and information for public health professionals. If you are looking for training on a specific topic, please visit CDC TRAIN.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia followed 144 older people who had mild cognitive impairment for seven years. To gauge how much iron was in their brains, they measured ferritin, a protein that binds to the metal, in their cerebrospinal fluid. For every nanogram per millilitre people had at the start of the study, they were diagnosed with Alzheimer's on average three months earlier. The team also found that the biggest risk gene for Alzheimer's, ApoE4, was strongly linked with higher iron, suggesting this is why carrying the gene makes you more vulnerable.

Variety of lesson plans

Classroom resources to support Cell Day -Inside the Cell  - free poster -articles -images -crossword -interactice tour

Interrupted case study of whooping cough.

curricular unit on Genetic Research

There are a significant number of genetics curriculum resources designed by different companies, curriculum development outlets, state curriculum designers and individual teachers. What resources are good? How do you know? As part of the Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project, a Curriculum Content Review Committee was formed to review readily available classroom resources about patterns of inheritance. Click here to see original evaluation form used by the committee and here to see the summary of the committee's review.

Virtual lab activities 

WHO factsheet on Ebola

After her two children were diagnosed with a rare genetic condition, Sharon Terry dedicated her life to creating systems-level solutions that will alleviate burdens for consumers and build opportunities for them to be empowered in their own health care. She is the CEO of Genetic Alliance, an international non-profit organization, now in its 25th year, that is the world's largest network of health related organizations working from a consumer perspective. Genetic Alliance builds capacity within the genetics and health community by forging novel partnerships, promoting informed decision-making, and sharing individual, family, and community perspectives.

Immune cells in mice with lupus symptoms have overactive metabolisms, so scientists inhibited two metabolic pathways and succeeded in reversing lupus symptoms in mice

The discovery of this genetic disorder, reported in two papers in the journal Cell, demonstrates the growing power of new tools to uncover the causes of diseases that previously stumped doctors.

Blood type may affect brain function as we age, according to a new large, long-term study. People with the rare AB blood type, present in less than 10 percent of the population, have a higher than usual risk of cognitive problems as they age.

The site has been pared down to focus on that which is truly important: the work of students. You'll still find links for each of the individual classes in the main navigation. Those class indexes will contain the posts for that class, for this year and prior years. They may also include examples of exemplary student work or anything that I (Mr. Kite) think may be relevant to the course.

Web activities supporting NIH Supplement on Evolution and Medicine

Comprehensive list of CDC accessible data

With that in mind, we formed the first storylining working group, which is open to anyone to join at any time. The group is led by Dr. Jason Crean and Mrs. Kristin Rademaker and meets once a month to maintain that open collaboration.  We are able to offer Professional Development Credits to participants with an open-door policy.    We began this project with 3 goals in mind: Train educators in three-dimensional learning, teaching, and coherent curricular design through sustained collaborative work and by both experiencing and doing it themselves;  Create coherent storylines, including embedded three-dimensional assessment pieces that will evolve over time through continuous feedback from pilot teachers; and most of all Share our work- for teachers, by teachers, for free-  with any stakeholders interested in making the fundamental shift towards a three-dimensional classroom.