Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
The Role of Health Literacy in Disaster Preparedness
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course discusses risk communication in emergency preparedness situations such as disasters and crises. It describes how to use communications to offset threats that people experience in these situations. Common patterns such as information processing, values and emotions, as well as systems and environments are discussed. Also discussed are strategies for dealing with the media, constructing a message using the 27/9/3 rule of communication, perceptual congruence, visuals, language, anchors and framing.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Two - Program Description and Logic Model
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of needs assessments in informing program evaluation and guiding the formulation of realistic evaluation goals and objectives. The session will also introduce the logic model as a way to articulate the components of a MCH program. Students will get to develop a logic model for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part two of a six-course series.
Environmental Strike Teams
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Environmental health practitioners have important roles and must perform a number of critical functions during emergency response such as, conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, conducting food safety inspections, and controlling disease-causing vectors. In order to improve response times, efficiency and overall organization, some state, local and federal entities have formed environmental health response teams.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Three - Process Evaluation
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of process evaluation in understanding the context of program implementation. This session will introduce the Family Nurse Partnership program to illustrate process evaluation findings. Students will get to formulate process evaluation questions and indicators for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part three of a six-course series.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Four - Outcome Evaluation
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of outcome evaluation in establishing a causal link between an intervention and observed results. The first part of this session will focus on identifying proper outcome measures; the second part will focus on the different types of evaluation designs. Students will get to formulate outcome evaluation questions and identify an evaluation design for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part four of a six-course series.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Five - Data Collection
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the issues to consider when making decisions about data collection. It will survey the most common data collection methods used in the evaluation of MCH programs. Students will get to outline a data collection plan for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part five of a six-course series.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Six - Analyze and Disseminate Findings
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the analysis and use of program evaluation findings. This session provides strategies and steps to analyze quantitative and qualitative data and to disseminate findings. Students will get to develop a dissemination matrix for the Child Wellness Program.  Note: This session is final session of a six-course series.
From Silos to Systems: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Public Health Assurance in the Post-Katrina Era
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:At the start of a new hurricane season, Gulf Coast residents have moved beyond the "lessons learned" stage and are forging ahead with rebuilding. Central to those efforts is assuring health. While it has become clear that a sustainable health system requires engagement from other non-traditional health-related disciplines, the evidence base supporting such transdisciplinary approaches is sparse.
Public Health to the Rescue: Emergency Response is Now a Core Function
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This program will examine the roles played by three state public health agencies in the response and recovery phases of Hurricane Katrina, specifically with respect to the public health core functions. The State Health Officers from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi will discuss how their agencies roles in assessment, policy development, and assurance were affected by this disaster. They will discuss as a group: what worked and what didn't; and what should be modified for the future.
Preventive Medicine and Training the Doctors of Tomorrow
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course will cover important details of the medical specialty of preventive medicine. The course also cites examples and statistics of preventable mortality in the United States and worldwide. The Preventive Medicine Residency Program offered at Tulane University School of Medicine is described in detail.

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