Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
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.
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. 
Community Health and Disease
  • Behavioral Health
  • 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. For each health problem, the course will review: 
Health Risk Assessment and Taking an Exposure History
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course provides an overview of the principles of public health risk assessment and biological monitoring to assess exposure. The goal of this course is to increase the public health practitioner’s knowledge of hazardous substances in the environment and to aid in the evaluation of potentially exposed individuals and communities.
Managing Conflict in the Workplace
  • General Public Health
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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.  Some of the fundamentals of effective conflict management are intuitive, and some stretch our preferred methods of dealing with others.  This course discusses dealing with conflict from a variety of different types of individuals and includes practical applications using a healthcare case study to build fundamental skills in managing conflict in a healthcare setting.
Mentoring and Coaching
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. Exercises are included to help the learner understand how to use a learning contract and how to choose a mentor or a coach.
The Expanding Workforce - How We Can Shape Up On the Job
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. It’s a figure that’s starting to show given the increase in obesity rates all across the country.  In 2002, President George W. Bush signed an Executive Order to promote physical fitness throughout the country.  Why?

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