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Alex Friedrich

The game the U hopes will attract students to public health

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Pretty fun for a career (UMN)

Louise Stenberg, who designs health education programs for the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, tells MPR's Lorna Benson why the new online game she helped create -- Epidemic! -- may lure students into public-health careers:

"[An epidemic is] usually the time when public health does make the news and it's usually the time when public health goes wrong ... But it's also the time that's intriguing because it's solving a mystery."

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