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
Family Advocacy and Involvement in Title V Programs
Course Description:Collaboration between Title V Maternal and Child Health Programs and family leaders provides a “win-win” opportunity to leverage programmatic expertise with families as an action arm for advocacy.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 2.00 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
Overview of Community Management of Patients in Disaster
Course Description:Disaster imposes adverse consequences upon community populations in several different but synergistic ways.
Category
  • General Public Health
Format
  • Self-study / Enduring
Credits
  • 1.00 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
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Two - Program Description and Logic Model
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of needs assessments in informing program evaluation and guiding the formulation of realistic evaluation goals and objectives.
Category
  • Maternal and Child 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

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