The ideal supplement to any introductory Human Biology or Microbiology course, this resource addresses the widely recognized need of informing students about their own bodies, in health and in disease. The book contains 10 investigative case studies dealing with different aspects of health from a societal standpoint. The real-world cases and issues are current and use an interdisciplinary public health framework, considering diseases not as events that happen to individuals, but as aspects of human population ecology. Topics treated include overall health, diabetes, heart disease, mosquito-borne diseases, zoonotic diseases, tuberculosis, antibiotic resistance, HIV, pandemics, and disease eradication. Each case begins with learning objectives and a brief narrative of the problem at hand, followed by quantitative and qualitative data sets, readings, activities, and investigations relating to the issue at hand for students to utilize data analysis and critical thinking skills.