Imagine what it would have been like to live through an outbreak of the Black Death in the Middle Ages.

If a health education specialist trained in the year 2010 could time-travel back to the Middle Ages, what impact could that person have on the health problems of that era? What positive factors would work in the health education specialist’s favor? What negative factors would work against the health education specialist?

1. If a health educator is simply considered as someone who educates others about health, who would be considered humanity’s first health educators? Defend your answer

2. Imagine what it would have been like to live through an outbreak of the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Write a thirty-day personal diary, with daily entries depicting what you might have seen or heard and how you might have felt.