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We took the train from Houten (NL) to London (UK) to play FluFighters™ with the Global Digital Health students at UCL. This Outbreak Learning Game lets students step into the shoes of epidemic responders at different levels. The scenario is set in the Netherlands, though the narrative was translated into English. The story starts with an unusually severe Influenza outbreak at an elementary school in the center of the Netherlands. The players are local outbreak investigators and have to make smart choices. They must ask the right questions to figure out what is going on and who is most at risk. And they discover the challenges of getting the right resources together to enable the investigation.
The game is collaborative, so players have to make all decisions together. But the clock ticks, as it does in real life when an outbreak hits a population.
Once the players have determined the most important questions to investigate, they must gather the necessary resources in time to allow the investigation to take off.
FluFighters™ was developed by Transmissible and Grumpy Owl Games and is distributed through Pandemos.