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
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