Disease ecology is an emerging, highly interdisciplinary, and fast-growing subfield of ecology. More departments are offering formal coursework in disease ecology or adding disease ecology sections into existing ecology courses. However, there is currently no undergraduate-level textbook available, and existing repositories of course syllabi have few computational labs and even fewer ‘wet’ lab activities. We have invited speakers for this session who will begin to fill in these gaps. They will not only help to share teaching ideas through their inspire talks and the subsequent discussion, but also by sharing their materials (on Disease Ecology Section’s repository) for even wider distribution.   The topics that our speakers will address range from specific ready-to-implement examples to broader perspectives on what and how we should be teaching our students. For example, Cat Searle will talk about how and why to run a CURE in disease ecology. We will have two complementary speakers discussing how and why to teach quantitative skills; Marm Kilpatrick on why to focus on this topic and Arietta Fleming-Davies on a project-based learning approach to doing so. Our six additional speakers will provide specific examples of successful lessons on a diverse array of topics. Together our proposed speakers are providing practical and general teaching advice to others in the field, both of which will greatly benefit students and faculty interested in Disease Ecology and Evolution