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Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
The Gulf Oil Spill: The Public Health Impact
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:It’s been one year since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the consequent Gulf Oil Spill. The oil spill itself was an acute event but the long term follow up will be with public health professionals for many years to come. This course will discuss the post-oil spill issues related to public health. The discussion will include issues associated with recovery, various exposure pathways, response efforts in retrospect, and the public health response in the coming years.
Behavioral Obesity Treatment: Today's State of the Art
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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.  Finding long term solutions to making lifestyle changes that people are able to incorporate and continue is the real challenge.  This course provides public health professionals with strategies to use with their patient population to promote behavioral changes necessary for sustained weight loss. 
Lessons From the Storm: Crisis and Collaboration
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. This session was conducted by Harold Suire, a consultant with over 20 years experience in the state policy arena, who was called upon by the state of Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina to coordinate the myriad of groups and foundations from throughout the nation and world.
Needs Assessment and Evaluation
  • General Public Health
  • 8.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course targets any level public health professionals who are involved in project or programmatic design and implementation. This course provides public health professionals with the planning cycle of a public health program, including the assessment of needs and resources, the development and implementation of solutions to perceived problems, and the monitoring and evaluation of activities. The course will focus around the Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (PIE) model.
Public Health Economics
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. We explore how market-based factors and governmental policies impact market outcomes. The concepts of private and social welfare are introduced as a framework for assessing the performance of markets. The course concludes with an application of economic tools to the policy issue of cigarette smoking.
Community Management of an Epidemic Outbreak
  • General Public Health
  • 12.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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 intervention and support during epidemic disease outbreak in both the local and international environment.
Decision Making in Disasters: Lessons from the Field
  • General Public Health
  • 8.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. The lessons and practices of yesterday no longer address a widening and diversifying pattern of population vulnerabilities which modern medical therapeutics, evolving demographics and lifestyle enhancement have generated on a global scale.
The History of Public Health Informatics: Where Do We Go from Here?
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:What is public health informatics (PHI)? Simply put, PHI is a sub-field of public health. Program faculty will journey through the evolution of public health informatics and describe how key events over the past decade have contributed to development and utilization of many computerized systems that support public health practice. Special focus will be given to major PHI applications including syndromic surveillance.
Psychological Resiliency - Building Personal Resilience and Self-Reliance
  • Behavioral Health
  • 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. Disaster and Crisis Intervention (DCI) Facilitation processes use proven professional group facilitation skills and processes to equip individuals in the affected communities with tools that help in their psycho-social reconstruction.
Vectors of Disease in Disasters
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. It will also focus on the factors affecting transmission of vectors of disease and methods of control. Part two will discuss evaluation and control strategies in a disaster.

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