Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
- Behavioral Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Environmental health practitioners have important roles and must perform a number of critical functions during emergency response such as, conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, conducting food safety inspections, and controlling disease-causing vectors. In order to improve response times, efficiency and overall organization, some state, local and federal entities have formed environmental health response teams.
- Maternal and Child Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of process evaluation in understanding the context of program implementation. This session will introduce the Family Nurse Partnership program to illustrate process evaluation findings. Students will get to formulate process evaluation questions and indicators for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part three of a six-course series.
- Maternal and Child Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of outcome evaluation in establishing a causal link between an intervention and observed results. The first part of this session will focus on identifying proper outcome measures; the second part will focus on the different types of evaluation designs. Students will get to formulate outcome evaluation questions and identify an evaluation design for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part four of a six-course series.
- Maternal and Child Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the issues to consider when making decisions about data collection. It will survey the most common data collection methods used in the evaluation of MCH programs. Students will get to outline a data collection plan for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part five of a six-course series.
- Maternal and Child Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the analysis and use of program evaluation findings. This session provides strategies and steps to analyze quantitative and qualitative data and to disseminate findings. Students will get to develop a dissemination matrix for the Child Wellness Program. Note: This session is final session of a six-course series.
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:At the start of a new hurricane season, Gulf Coast residents have moved beyond the "lessons learned" stage and are forging ahead with rebuilding. Central to those efforts is assuring health. While it has become clear that a sustainable health system requires engagement from other non-traditional health-related disciplines, the evidence base supporting such transdisciplinary approaches is sparse.
- General Public Health
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This program will examine the roles played by three state public health agencies in the response and recovery phases of Hurricane Katrina, specifically with respect to the public health core functions. The State Health Officers from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi will discuss how their agencies roles in assessment, policy development, and assurance were affected by this disaster. They will discuss as a group: what worked and what didn't; and what should be modified for the future.
- General Public Health
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course will cover important details of the medical specialty of preventive medicine. The course also cites examples and statistics of preventable mortality in the United States and worldwide. The Preventive Medicine Residency Program offered at Tulane University School of Medicine is described in detail.
- Maternal and Child Health
- 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:All states have newborn screening (NBS) programs, but many practitioners are unaware of what disorders their state/territory screens for via NBS. Additionally, despite newborn screening having existed for 50 years, many parents are unaware of this life-saving health service. This course will enable the learner to describe a general overview of the history of newborn screening, discuss the expansion of newborn screening and testing methodologies, and understand the scope of newborn screening and the role of healthcare providers.
- Leadership Development
- 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Some say that the only people who want to be changed are babies! The reality is that all of us experience resistance to innovation and change, rather than embrace or take charge of it. Individuals can choose to be proactive toward change and adopt leadership strategies for taking charge of change instead of letting it take charge of them. This session will explore the change process and examine typical responses to change, environmental influences, and strategies for adapting successfully within the public health field.