The Gulf Oil Spill: The Public Health Impact
Course Description:It’s been one year since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the consequent Gulf Oil Spill. The oil spill itself was an acute event but the long term follow up will be with public health professionals for many years to come.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 3.00 Participation/CE
Behavioral Obesity Treatment: Today's State of the Art
Course Description:Obesity is a public health epidemic that’s affecting millions of Americans. Research shows that weight loss isn’t as much the problem as weight maintenance seems to be.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Lessons From the Storm: Crisis and Collaboration
Course Description:The lessons learned, and lessons still being taught, from Hurricane Katrina can assist all healthcare and family assistance providers in providing for future disasters.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Needs Assessment and Evaluation
Course Description:This course targets any level public health professionals who are involved in project or programmatic design and implementation.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 8.00 Participation/CE
Public Health Economics
Course Description:Economics is the study of choices in a world of scarcity. In this course we explore how markets function by examining the demand behavior of consumers and the supply behavior of firms.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 3.00 Participation/CE
Community Management of an Epidemic Outbreak
Course Description:The evolution of modern medical competencies, the slowing availability of effective antimicrobials and expanded populations of increased vulnerability pose a significant challenge to today’s public health professional in providing effective interventio
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 12.00 Participation/CE
Decision Making in Disasters: Lessons from the Field
Course Description:The current increasingly technical and urbanized centers of human population present critical challenges and opportunities to the profession of Disaster Management in the early 21st century.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 8.00 Participation/CE
The History of Public Health Informatics: Where Do We Go from Here?
Course Description:What is public health informatics (PHI)? Simply put, PHI is a sub-field of public health.
Category
- General Public Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 Participation/CE
Psychological Resiliency - Building Personal Resilience and Self-Reliance
Course Description:Once the survival needs of people impacted by a disaster are stable, the important work of rebuilding the collective social network and individual lives in the community can begin.
Category
- Behavioral Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 5.00 Participation/CE
Vectors of Disease in Disasters
Course Description:This course consists of two parts. Part one will discuss vectors of health importance in a disaster. This part will address vectors such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, fleas and rodents.
Category
- Behavioral Health
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 4.00 Participation/CE