In your future professional roles, you will be expected to apply epidemiological principles to understand and communicate the impact of health issues affecting populations. This assessment simulates a real-world scenario where you will research and present epidemiological evidence in a format suitable for an academic and professional audience.

You are required to design and develop a conference-style poster that explores the population health impact of a significant health issue in Australia. Your poster should be suitable for presentation at a professional public health conference and must communicate key epidemiological findings clearly and effectively.

Target Audience:

Your poster will be viewed by:

• Public health officers
• Health planners from the Department of Health
• Academics and researchers
• Other health professionals

Poster Requirements:

Your poster must include the following components:

1. Introduction

• Provide a clear definition of the selected health issue.
• Justify its relevance and importance to the Australian population using current data or policy references.

2. Epidemiological Analysis: use a range of appropriate epidemiological measures (e.g. incidence, prevalence, mortality rates, DALYs, risk ratios) to critically analyse:

• The overall impact on the Australian population
• Differences in impact across population subgroups (e.g. age, gender, geographic location, occupation, socioeconomic status)
• Associated health outcomes (e.g. morbidity, mortality, quality of life)

3. Prevention and Intervention

• Describe current short-term and long-term prevention strategies.
• Highlight any gaps or areas for improvement in public health responses.

4. Data Visualisation

• Include at least two forms of data visualisation (e.g. data tables, graphs, charts, infographics, maps) that enhance understanding and communication of the issue.
• Ensure visuals are clearly labelled, sourced, and relevant to your analysis.

5. Conclusion

• Summarise key findings.
• Link back to the introduction and reinforce the significance of the issue and its implications for public health practice.

The topic options for the task are:  

• HPV infection in Australia
• Concussions in Australian Rules Football (AFL)
• Vitamin B6 toxicity in Victoria
• Japanese encephalitis in Australia

The use of generative AI for this assessment task is permitted in limited and restricted ways. You may only use generative AI for the following purposes:

• Checking of grammar, punctuation, and syntax

The use of generative AI to generate material or write parts of this assignment, or submitting work that was not written by you, is a breach of the University's academic integrity policy.

If you require further academic support with this assignment, please utilise the range of resources available through the CQUniversity library and ALC for support with academic skills including:

• understanding and interpreting assessment task requirements and rubrics
• researching (including developing effective search terms, and effectively utilising search databases)
• writing (including paraphrasing, synthesising, critical appraisal)
• referencing (including what, how and where to reference appropriately)

Gen AI Level 2 

Level 2: You may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas

Your work will be assessed on:

Assessment 2 is a series of quiz questions that you will complete individually. Each quiz consists of multiple-choice questions and/or other form of questions (approximate length 250 words). There are five quizzes in total, each worth 5%. The quizzes are spread out throughout the term, due in weeks 3, 4, 6, 9 and 11. Each quiz covers the concepts and that were introduced in the previous week/s. For example, the quiz due in Week 3 relates the concepts and materials from Weeks 1 & 2; the quiz due in Week 4 addresses the concepts and materials from Week 3; and so on.

Each quiz must be completed individually. You will have 30 minutes to complete each quiz and you cannot pause it. You will only have one attempt to complete each quiz, so it's important to have a reliable internet connection when taking the quiz.

You may use a notes page with formulas and a simple calculator to assist you. The quiz will be available from 00:00 hours on Monday of each relevant content week until 18:00 hours on Monday of the following due week. For example, the quiz due in week 4 (related to concepts from week 3) will be available from Monday of week 3 and will remain open until Monday of week 4 at 18:00 hours. You will receive your score and feedback on your answers after the quiz has closed to the student cohort.

STUDENTS MUST NOT USE GENERATIVE AI TO COMPLETE THESE QUIZZES

72 hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

No Assessment Criteria

In your professional life, you may use your knowledge of epidemiology to support applications for funding by your employer, either through grants or budget requests, to address health outcomes within your area. This assessment is a practical application of that scenario.

In this assessment task, you are required to research and write an application for funding. The funding will support an evidence-based intervention that will improve the health of a population concerning the health outcome you critically outlined in Assessment 1. Your task is to complete an application for funding to conduct an evidence-based population-level intervention to improve population health.

The application requires you to use an evaluation of relevant literature to propose an appropriate evidence-based, contextually relevant approach that addresses the health issue. You must research and design an evidence-based project to address the health outcome of interest that is suitable for the context in which you are implementing it. This is consistent with the goal of public health, which is to ask not just "what works" but to address "what works for whom, under what circumstances, and how".

A template for the funding application is provided with prescribed sections and strict word limits to explain your proposed project. You should source, interpret, critically evaluate and communicate the current epidemiological evidence, demonstrating your understanding of the available sources evidence and how they support your proposed project. You will submit your completed template, along with your references, via Moodle.

See the unit Moodle site for full task guidelines.

The use of generative AI for this assessment task is permitted in limited and restricted ways. You may only use generative AI for the following purposes:

• Checking of grammar, punctuation, and syntax

The use of generative AI to generate material or write parts of this assignment, or submitting work that was not written by you, is a breach of the University's academic integrity policy.

If you require further academic support with this assignment, please utilise the range of resources available through the CQUniversity library and ALC for support with academic skills including:

• understanding and interpreting assessment task requirements and rubrics
• researching (including developing effective search terms, and effectively utilising search databases)  
• writing (including paraphrasing, synthesising, critical appraisal)
• referencing (including what, how and where to reference appropriately)

Gen AI Level 2

Level 2: You may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas

Relevance (40%)

• Appropriateness and justification of the identified need in an Australian context
• Use of meaningful and appropriate epidemiological information to support the proposal  
• Clear and appropriately focused critical literature review
• Suitability and justification of the methodology and impacts
• Cohesiveness and congruence of all aspects of the funding application (i.e. alignment between the topic, critical literature review, need, methodology and anticipated impacts)

Validity (40%)

• Factual accuracy of statements
• Depth, extent and quality of evidence used to provide strong and credible evidence-based proposals and justifications
• Quality of critical literature review
• Effectiveness of proposed methodology to achieve identified outcomes  
• Feasibility of project and anticipated impacts
• Extent and magnitude of anticipated impacts  
• Originality of proposed project
• Compliance of proposed project with ethical considerations

Organisation (10%)

• Consideration of required components of the assessment task
• Alignment of the individual components of the proposal into a consistent and cohesive proposal  
• Structure, synthesis and flow of information
• Accurate and effective use of template(s)

Presentation (10%)

• Style and formatting in accordance with required academic standards and assessment task requirements writing – clarity and consistency of academic or professional communication appropriate for the intended audience
• Writing - fluency
• Writing - spelling, punctuation and grammar.
• Sufficient and accurate referencing in-text and in the final reference list
• Reference style: APA7.0