Public Health Simulation Games

Outbreak at Watersledge

In this interactive game developed by University of Minnesota-School of Public Health, you take on the role of a public health official as you help discover the source of the outbreak that has hit the small community of Watersedge and stop it before more residents get sick.

Buffet Busters

An interactive game developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada, it is geared towards fifth graders and aims to promote infectious disease awareness as well as the basic principles of epidemiology.

Disease Detective

Developed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, this game allows you to play the role of budding epidemiologist who has been called to a popular national park in the American Southwest to investigate a disease outbreak. Help public health officials trace the outbreak to its source using the basic methods of field epidemiology.

The Great Flu

This is an online game developed following the appearance of the Swine Flu aka H1N1, which caused worldwide panic, demonstrating how uninformed the lay public was about viral outbreaks, epidemiology and public health. This game challenges players to control a new viral pandemic.