On March 31st, Gia Peralta came to our Bio Fitness class. She talked about many things, most of which were along the lines of what it is like to be an epidemiologist for the CDC. While she was here, she showed the class the slides she used for one of her presentations on a case she worked on. In those slides, you could really see the process they used for that particular case. If you break down that process in steps and compare them to the hero’s journey, you can see a lot that could relate to both. For example, her case was broken up into: something happens, trial and error in figuring out what is happening, figuring out how to stop and prevent it, then actually doing whatever needs to be done to stop and prevent it. These steps can be summed up in hero’s journey terms as Crisis, Call to Adventure, Trials, Result and Resolution.
The Crisis would be the time when all the people were being affected. The Call to Adventure would be when those people went to receive medical attention and the CDC got involved. The Trials would be when the CDC tries to figure out what is happening to these people, how did they get this, how to cure it, and how to prevent it. The Result is the final diagnosis and a plan in motion that is preventing it from spreading. And last, but not least, Resolution is how to prevent this from happening again and keeping the public healthy.
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