{"id":128228,"date":"2020-10-05T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=128228"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T01:44:27","slug":"covid-19-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/05\/covid-19-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 curriculum aims to reshape public health education"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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“View of Smallpox Hospital” by Paul Emmert, c. 1853–59, Hawaiʻi<\/span> Historical Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted educators in Hawaiʻi<\/span> to provide a historical look at contagious diseases in Hawaiʻi<\/span> and the Pacific. An interdisciplinary curriculum, COVID-19, the Latest Hawaiian Epidemic: Educating for Health, Responsibility, and Resilience Through a Place-Based, Cultural Lens<\/a>, that compares and contrasts Hawaiian historical timelines and science phenomena associated with COVID-19, is the brainchild of University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa College of Education Curriculum Studies<\/a> Professor Pauline Chinn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Pauline Chinn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The curriculum has multiple purposes: to understand COVID-19 in historical contexts, examine leaders\u2019 actions in a crisis, and teach students about ways to slow the spread of SARS-CoV<\/abbr>-2, the virus causing COVID-19. Chinn, graduate students Kaleolani Hanohano<\/strong> and Alison Yasuoka<\/strong>, and Hawaiian translator graduate assistants Riley Wells<\/strong> and Kyle Nakatsuka<\/strong>, developed a series of lessons that include: hands-on activities, simulations, models, metrics, interactive discussions, historical resources, Hawaiian language newspaper articles, and up-to-date information on COVID-19 that can be used in schools and communities.<\/p>\n

Hanohano\u2019s lesson focuses on Princess Liliʻuokalani\u2019s<\/span> 1881 quarantine of Oʻahu<\/span> that stopped the spread of smallpox to other islands. Liliʻuokalani\u2019s<\/span> decisive action to shut down parts of the economy in favor of health is consistent with the Hawaiian Kingdom\u2019s response to introduced diseases and cultural practices embedded in kapu aloha.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 curriculum and a series of interactive workshops are made possible with support from a National Science Foundation (NSF<\/abbr>) award<\/a> for teacher leadership and place-based curriculum development. With support from Papa Ola Lokahi<\/a> and NSF<\/abbr>, Yasuoka and Wells also created the Kūpaʻa<\/span> Collective<\/a> website to empower community members with the science, public health, educational and community knowledge to move beyond COVID-19 toward healthy, resilient futures.<\/p>\n

Education-public health collaboration<\/h2>\n

The potential of K–12 educators as community health partners led to COVID-19 presentations with Alika Maunakea<\/strong>, an associate professor at the John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM<\/abbr>)\u2019s Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry & Physiology and the Institute for Biogenesis Research, his aunt Kukui Maunakea-Forth, founder and executive director of MAʻO<\/span> Organic Farms<\/a>, and Ruben Juarez<\/strong>, professor in the College of Social Sciences\u2019<\/a> economics department and a research fellow in the 糖心视频<\/abbr> Economic Research Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an effort to address COVID-19 testing among underserved and\/or vulnerable populations, a team consisting of: May Okihiro<\/strong>, an associate pediatrics professor at JABSOM<\/abbr>, Marjorie Mau<\/strong>, a professor at JABSOM<\/abbr>\u2019s Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research, Maunakea, Juarez and Chinn, will support a community-led program called the Pacific Alliance Against COVID-19 (PAAC<\/abbr>). PAAC<\/abbr> will empower educators and students as community health workers to assess their ʻohana<\/span>‘s risk for COVID-19 by age, ethnicity, gender, essential service work and health risk factors, and more effectively connect with public health services, especially those provided by the AHARO<\/abbr> Community Health Centers including Waiʻanae<\/span> Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Waimānalo Health Center, Bay Clinic and Hāmākua-Kohala Health Center on Hawaiʻi<\/span> Island, and Molokaʻi<\/span> Health Center.<\/p>\n

Teachers and students can play an important role in public health education. With public health partners, they can provide the fine-grained health monitoring that alerts public health workers to potential COVID-19 cases and clusters that can spread to the wider community and create outbreaks that could return Hawaiʻi<\/span> to further restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was developed in an effort to examine leaders\u2019 actions in a crisis and teach students about ways to slow the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[95,1411,1416,31,241,9],"class_list":["post-128228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-education","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-public-health","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t