Public Health High School Curriculum
Discover the many ways public health shapes the world around us! Designed for high school students, our new e-learning curriculum invites learners to explore public health topics through engaging online lessons. Whether students are discovering public health for the first time or building on what they already know, there’s something new to learn. Explore the lessons below, and check back often as we publish more!
Introduction to Public Health
This e-learning course introduces high school students to the foundations of public health, its impact on everyday life and community health, and the career opportunities available to make a difference.
Environmental Health
This lesson introduces students to environmental health, exploring how air quality, climate change, and other environmental factors affect community health and what we can do to protect it.
Biostatistics
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This lesson introduces students to the role of biostatistics in public health through activities that build skills in analyzing data, making calculations, developing hypotheses, and evaluating data quality.
Epidemiology
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This lesson introduces students to epidemiology and its role in public health through activities exploring infectious disease, the immune response, and strategies for disease prevention and control.
Health Policy
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Social and Behavioral Health
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Comprehensive High School Public Health Lessons
Our public health curriculum can be accessed via TRAIN Montana, a national learning network that gives Montanans access to a catalog of high-quality public health training opportunities.
If you are new to TRAIN, you will first need to create an account. Once your account is active, navigate to the curriculum by following this link.
These resources are frequently updated, as public health is an ever-changing field. If you notice broken links, please let us know.
Virtual Spring Teacher Workshop
Public health is all around us, shaping the conditions that help students, families, and communities stay healthy and safe. This virtual workshop, held on May 21, 2026, introduced Montana educators to the Public Health in Schools initiative and explored how public health concepts can be brought into classrooms through real-world, locally relevant examples. Participants learned about the importance of public health career exposure, the current need to strengthen the public health workforce pipeline, and practical ways schools and health departments can partner to help students see public health in their own communities.
This workshop was designed for teachers, school staff, health department partners, and anyone interested in helping students better understand what public health is, why it matters, and how it connects to meaningful careers and community problem-solving.
Access the recording and workshop materials here.
This project was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under a contract with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, as part of a financial assistance award totaling $1,139,450 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, the U.S. Government, or the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.