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Jamie Roden named semi-finalist in national Young Epidemiology Scholars contest
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Jamie Roden, a Watervliet senior and student in the New Visions Scientific Research and World Health program, was recently named as a semifinalist in one of the country's most prestigious high school science competitions. More than 550 students from around the country entered the Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by the College Board. Roden won a $1,000 scholarship and earned national recognition for her work.
Jamie's project, entitled "A Spatial/Temporal Evaluation of Abstinence Education through Gonorrhea Prevalence and Comparative Demographics in the United States," took her about a month to complete and analyzes how abstinence-only education has effected the rate of STD's in the US.
"I read an article in Time Magazine about how one in every four teenagegirls has an STD and I just couldn't believe it," she said. Her study details STD |
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rates in different areas of the country and then compares they type of STD education student's receive in those areas.
Jamie plans to attend Cornell in the fall and will be studying Bioengineering and International Relations.
The YES competition is designed to spur students' interest in the field of public health, specifically epidemiology. Epidemiology explores patterns of disease, illness. and injury within populations, with the goal of developing methods for prevention, control and treatment to improve health. YES competitors each developed a research project in which they identified a health problem, gathered data about that problem, and addressed the problem based on the data they gathered. |
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