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
Health Risk Assessment and Taking an Exposure History
Course Description:This course provides an overview of the principles of public health risk assessment and biological monitoring to assess exposure.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
Managing Conflict in the Workplace
Course Description:Conflict management skills are used in all aspects of life.  From interpersonal to work situations, all of us need these skills in one way or another.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
Mentoring and Coaching
Course Description:The purpose of this course is to distinguish the difference between a mentor and a coach and how to shape these relationships. A discussion of the utilization of learning contracts to help in this process is also discussed.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
The Expanding Workforce - How We Can Shape Up On the Job
Course Description:Tighten your abdominal muscles. Keep breathing. Sit up straight. Let’s face it, working out is a chore for most people and in today’s busy world finding time to go to the gym or dedicating 30 minutes 5 days a week to exercise can be challenging.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Evaluating Organizational Effectiveness
Course Description:Recently, an emphasis has been placed on the effects that various training and development initiatives have had on enhancing the capacity of the public health workforce and related organizational effectiveness.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Inescapable Realities in Public Health - Conflict and Collaboration: Building Competency
Course Description:Have you ever found yourself in a conflict, either professional or personal, with no idea how to get out of it without simply surrendering or fighting back? Just how is it that conflict seems to arise so often?
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Conflict Management: Lessons From the Field
Course Description:Conflict is a normal part of our everyday life both at home and in the workplace. Mismanaged conflict has both direct and indirect costs as it decreases productivity, increases problems with morale and increases liability.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
Health Care Reform: An Overview of the New Legislation
Course Description:The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law in March but how many people really know how their health care coverage will be affected, and as a health care provider can you provide answers to questions patients might have?
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
The Gulf Oil Spill: The Environmental Impact
Course Description:The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon on April 2010 and the consequent Gulf Oil Spill has raised many public health questions. Will the oil make me sick? What could be in the air? Is the seafood that gets to market safe?
Category
  • Environmental Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 Participation/CE

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