Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Advanced Leadership and Practice
  • Behavioral Health
  • 6.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Dramatic change will occur in public health and health care in the next decade. This course provides public health practitioners and other health care providers with the leadership skills necessary to work effectively in the change environment at a community, state or regional level. These leadership skills are essential for designing and advocating for programs and policies necessary to promote health
Orientation to the Essentials of Public Health - Introductory Level
  • Behavioral Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Orientation to the Essentials of Public Health, Introductory Level provides a brief history of public health in the US. It also discusses the guiding principles for those who practice public health. From the initial three core functions of public health first defined by the Institute of Medicine in 1988 through the current 10 essential services of public health set by the US Department of Health and Human Services. The expanded role of public health in the times of disasters is also explored.
Orientation to the Essentials of Public Health - Intermediate Level
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of this course is to focus on the basic principles and core elements of public health and trace its evolution. The course reviews the public health system and its roles and responsibilities. It is also important to understand the challenge to measure health and address the nationally recognized core public health competencies. Lastly, participants are given a glimpse at public health issues that face us today and ones that are on the horizon.
Orientation to the Essentials of Public Health - Advanced Level
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of this course is to focus on the basic principles and core elements of public health and trace its evolution. The course reviews the public health system and its roles and responsibilities. It is also important to understand the challenge to measure health and address the nationally recognized core public health competencies. Lastly, participants are given a glimpse at public health issues that face us today and one that are on the horizon.
The Core Elements of Project Management in Public Health
  • Behavioral 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.
8 Steps to Building and Sustaining Effective Coalitions
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Have you ever tried to convince your health director, mayor, school board, minister, or business owner to support your community coalition? It’s not always easy, especially if he or she is not convinced that working in partnership is the best approach. This presentation will help you define coalitions, learn when and how to use them, and provide eight steps for building effective coalitions that promote health, a healthy environment, and prevent disease.
Health Communication
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course covers general steps to planning a health communication intervention, as well as how to apply health communication theory when promoting behavior change.  Social marketing principles are introduced, in addition to steps to reduce the literacy burden that often restricts health communication.This course includes four modules:
Diversity and Cultural Competency in Public Health Settings - Basic Level
  • Behavioral Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The purpose of this course is to provide public health practitioners with the awareness and knowledge to incorporate diversity and cultural competency concepts, tools, and techniques into their daily work. It is expected that by the end of this course that each participant will be conversant in issues related to culture and health, health disparities, and community health models designed to close the gap in health disparities.
Facilitator Training
  • Behavioral Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:In this course, the instructor will introduce methods and strategies used in facilitating meetings, workshops, tabletop exercises, and other events.
Infectious Disease
  • Behavioral Health
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is a three-module sequence covering a sampling of those areas of infectious disease relevant to public health professionals in the United States. The modules begin by discussing areas considered by the CDC to be the most important public health successes of the 20th century. Control of certain major infectious diseases is a significant aspect of these successes. The modules then discuss the major gram positive and gram-negative bacterial illnesses, selected viral, protozoal, prior, rickettsial and vaccine preventable disease.

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