Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Transgender Health 103: LGBTQ+ Healthcare Workplace Inclusion
  • Transgender Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Transgender Health 103: LGBTQ+ Healthcare Workplace Inclusion is third in a seven-course learning series.This course reviews workplace inclusion issues pertaining to LGBTQ+ individuals. It is designed for healthcare, behavioral health, and public health practitioners administrators, and leaders who wish to enhance their capacity to serve the transgender community in their practice.
Transgender Health 104: Psychological Distress
  • Transgender Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Transgender Health 104: Psychological Distress is fourth in a seven-course learning series.This course reviews behavioral health issues pertaining to transgender, gender non-binary, and intersex individuals. It is designed for health care, behavioral health, and public health practitioners administrators, and leaders who wish to enhance their capacity to serve the transgender community in their practice.
Transgender Health 105: Role of Endocrinology in the Transgender Community
  • Transgender Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Transgender Health 105: Role of Endocrinology in the Transgender Community is fifth in a seven-course learning series.This course reviews endocrinology for transgender, gender non-binary, and intersex individuals with a focus on hormone replacement therapy.
America’s Other Drug Problem: Critical Medication Management Considerations for the Older Patient
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:America’s Other Drug Problem: Critical Medication Management Considerations for the Older Patient will cover the morbidity and mortality statistics associated with what has been referred to as “America’s Other Drug Problem.” That is the problems that the older patient may experience as a result of their medications. The course will describe what changes occur as a person ages that predisposes them to problems with their medications.
The Strategic National Stockpile Program & Closed Point of Dispensing
  • Mississippi Department of Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This online course introduces specific topics and outlines criteria related to the operations of a closed point of dispensing (POD). This course was originally developed for the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) for individuals who are interested in or may be working in a closed POD facility. The course is separated into two modules: Module 1 provides an overview of the Strategic National Stockpile program and describes the purpose and setup of PODs, including closed PODs.
Introduction to Human Health Risk Assessment
  • Environmental Health in Disasters
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course presents the basic principles of qualitative health risk assessment of environmental chemicals, including an overview of the qualitative skills necessary to evaluate the probability of injury, disease or death in the general population from exposure to environmental contamination. It will also emphasize the qualitative aspects of hazard identification, exposure assessment, dose-response evaluation and risk characterization.  Lastly, the course will address issues in risk management and communication.
Environmental Sampling and Monitoring in a Disaster
  • Environmental Health in Disasters
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:In the event of a natural or man-made disaster, it is anticipated that the first several days will be dedicated to emergency response and rescue operations. Responding to disasters must be a well coordinated effort between the private and public sectors. Local, state and federal environmental health teams must include experts in all aspects of environmental health if and when available. This course will discuss environmental sampling and monitoring procedures for water, air, soil and sediment.
Environmental Health and Shelters
  • Environmental Health in Disasters
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course was developed by Captain Mark D. Miller, MPH, RS, USPHS (Retired). The content of this course is taken from a series of lectures that Captain Miller and his colleagues deliver around the country as a package of Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response.
Practice-based Scenarios for Recognition, Detection and Exposure Assessment of Chemical Terrorist Agents
  • First Responder Preparedness
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course provides a practice-based guide to the initial public health response to a chemical terrorist attack including:The strategies used in the field to recognize which chemicals may be involved in a terrorist attack and the devices used to detect the chemical(s)The models and other tools used to conduct an exposure assessment for the surrounding exposed populationPractice-based exercises and scenarios of chemical terrorist attacks
Communication Gap: Linking First Responders and First Receivers
  • First Responder Preparedness
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course hopes to bridge the communication gap between first responders (e.g., EMS staff in the field) and first receivers (e.g., emergency room personnel at a hospital) in the event of a terrorist attack. Topics that will be covered in this course include: orientation to duties and expectations of both first responders and first receivers, channels and methods of communication, responder information collection at scene and clear communication guidelines during handoff at a hospital.

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