Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
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.
Family Advocacy and Involvement in Title V Programs
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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.  Program faculty will discuss appropriate roles for family advocates and describe the nuts and bolts structure and organization for how Title V programs can meaningfully operationalize their involvement.
Introduction to Points of Dispensing (POD)
  • Behavioral Health
  • 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. This course will cover topics such as selecting and designing a site, as well as administration and logistics issues such as supplies, staff roles and training, patient flows, operations and security. Risk communication regarding POD operations will also be discussed in this course. Finally, there will be a short discussion on the closing of a POD.
Overview of Community Management of Patients in Disaster
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Disaster imposes adverse consequences upon community populations in several different but synergistic ways. The physical infrastructure of the community may be disrupted and it’s capability in providing basic elements of the population at risk’s Hierarchy of Needs may be impaired. Vulnerabilities inherent in the community population may be revealed as compensatory day to day practices for their mitigation are weakened or become impossible.
The Role of Health Literacy in Disaster Preparedness
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
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. Common patterns such as information processing, values and emotions, as well as systems and environments are discussed. Also discussed are strategies for dealing with the media, constructing a message using the 27/9/3 rule of communication, perceptual congruence, visuals, language, anchors and framing.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Two - Program Description and Logic Model
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of needs assessments in informing program evaluation and guiding the formulation of realistic evaluation goals and objectives. The session will also introduce the logic model as a way to articulate the components of a MCH program. Students will get to develop a logic model for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part two of a six-course series.

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