Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Chemical Terrorism
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course will address the remote and current history of the use of chemical agents during conflict and draw parallels as to the nature and dimensions of the current terrorist threat. The categories of common chemical agents will be presented along with the associated mammalian pathophysiology and insight offered on prevention, management and casualty treatment. The importance of competent identification and decontamination of exposed casualties and equipment will be emphasized.
Homeland Security: Defining Directives, Organization and Policies
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The Department of Homeland Security leverages resources within federal, state, and local governments. It coordinates the transition of multiple agencies and programs into a single, integrated agency focused on protecting the American people and their homeland. The mission of the department is to prevent terrorist attacks, reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism; and minimize the damage and assist in the recovery from terrorist attacks that occur within the United States.
Managing Diversity Begins with You
  • Behavioral Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of this intermediate course is to acquire a conceptual framework with tools to manage diversity in the workplace as a way of improving service delivery, quality, and accessibility. It is expected that each participant will be able to identify their role in their own organization with respect to diversity and cultural competency and to position their organization as a leading organization in the delivery of cultural competent services.
Budget Planning and Management
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course provides an overview of the importance of integrating strategic and budget planning, the types and concepts of budgeting, the application of budgeting as a managerial tool, and budget planning and management. This course includes a case study examining Jefferson County (Alabama) Department of Health (JCDH) Budget Systems. Specific references to the JCDH Budget Systems will be made throughout the presentation.
Succession Planning for Public Health Agencies
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session One - Monitoring & Evaluation: What? When? Who?
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session provides an introduction to the monitoring and evaluation of Maternal and Child Health programs.  The first part describes the different types of program evaluation and the context in which these types of evaluation are used. The second part discusses the role of stakeholders to ensure effective evaluation and proposes some strategies to ensure successful collaboration. Students will get to identify stakeholders for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part one of a six-course series.
The Intersection of Cultural Diversity, Health Policy Development and Policy Analysis
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The primary aim of this course is to provide public health professionals with a broad overview of cultural diversity issues according to race/ethnicity and gender and to assess health policy with respect to these issues. The three specific racial/ethnic groups are: African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, and Asian/Pacific Islanders. The gender classifications include men and women. The cultural diversity issues will focus on health disparities as the major conceptual frame for thinking about health policy analysis.
Cost-Benefit Analysis for Disaster Preparedness
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course explains what Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is and how to use it to select the most worthy project(s) from a list of candidates. Because CBA makes the user define all costs and benefits in terms of dollars, it is useful for comparing projects that may have very different kinds of good and bad outcomes that will affect different parties. The course explains how CBA can be manipulated to make a project look good or bad and how to discourage such abuse by carefully specifying how data were obtained.
Conflict Management
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of the course is to provide practical, hands on, experience in conflict management. The course will focus on how conflict management can be used in a variety of work settings. The course features an interactive discussion led by an expert in conflict management.
Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Advanced Level
  • Behavioral Health
  • 7.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is a continuation of the "Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Intermediate Level" course, ideally taken soon after the Intermediate level course. The course will explore methods for identifying and analyzing community health problems and their causes.  The course stresses community organization skills and their application. 

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