Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
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.
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.
Weaving the Threads of Culture: Working Effectively with American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN)
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is a series of lessons aimed at providing you with the information needed to improve your ability to communicate more effectively with the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) community in which you work as a health provider, health planner, counselor or however you interact with the Native communities. We will provide a view of many aspects of American Indian and Alaska Native culture and hopefully remove any stereotypes you may have acquired over your lifetime.
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.
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:
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.
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.
DSHS Foundations of Public Health
  • General Public Health
  • 0.50 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:DSHS Foundations of Public Health is an introduction to the public health sciences, leading public health organizations, key terms, daily practices, history, and some of the U.S. top achievements.
Introduction to Texas Department of State Health Services Institutional Review Board
  • General Public Health
  • 1.50 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The goal of this course is to provide a learning opportunity for Texas Department of State Health Services Institutional Review Board investigators and participants.
Cultural Competence in Emergencies
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Since human beings were created, they have evolved socially, linguistically, economically, and more. Hence, in emergencies, so much is at stake that emergency responders must constantly augment their knowledge, skills, and abilities for working with individuals, groups, and communities in cross-cultural contexts.

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