New Requirements for Supporting Statement A _genIC

New Requirements for Supporting Statement A

GenIC

Request for Approval under the Generic Clearance for CDC Fellowship Programs Assessments

OMB Number 0920-1163

• Goal of this study is to assess the experience of participants in the CDC Science Ambassador Fellowship. We are interested to know how well the programming was received and what improvements need to be made to better serve SAF fellows and peer leaders

• Intended use of the resulting data is to improve the CDC Science Ambassador Fellowship program to further support middle and high school educators in teaching epidemiology and public health science in their classrooms

• Data will be collected using Survey Monkey, a web-based survey tool and through virtual focus groups that will be conducted using Microsoft Teams.

• The subpopulation to be studied is Science Ambassador fellows and peer leaders who attended the 2023 CDC Science Ambassador Fellowship summer course and then participated in 1-year distance-based professional development opportunity

• Data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analyses

2024 CDC Science Ambassador Fellowship Exit Survey, 2024 CDC SAF Focus Group Availability Poll, and 2024 CDC Science Ambassador Fellowship Focus Group Discussion Guide