Succession Planning for Public Health Agencies
Course Description:In this course, the instructors will discuss the public health workforce shortage as well as succession planning, a key element in addressing that shortage.
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Advanced Level
Course Description:This course is a continuation of the "Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Intermediate Level" course, ideally taken soon after the Intermediate level course.
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 7.00 Participation/CE
Community Health and Disease
Course Description:The course will describe the biological processes underlying the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. and connect these with community disease prevention/health promotion strategies. 
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 5.00 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
Introduction to Points of Dispensing (POD)
Course Description:This course will familiarize POD workers and public health personnel with the basic purpose, constitution and operations of a Point of Dispensing during a disaster.
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 5.00 Participation/CE
The Role of Health Literacy in Disaster Preparedness
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.
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Environmental Strike Teams
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 controll
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Facing Fear: Crisis Communication and Disaster Behavioral Health
Course Description:The fields of crisis communication and disaster behavioral health have knowledge that can be mutually beneficial when disaster strikes.
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Mosquito Abatement in Louisiana Post Katrina and Rita
Course Description:On August 31, 2005, the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and its associated storm surge resulted in the destruction of large areas of Louisiana, which included Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes and the cities of Slidell and New Orleans.
Category
  • Behavioral Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE

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