Region IV Public Health Training Center Catalog
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A Brain-Based Approach to Change Management: Working with Your Nervous System For Improved Outcomes
In today’s dynamic workplace, organizational change is both inevitable and essential for growth. However, successfully navigating change requires more than strategic planning – it demands a deep understanding of the challenges that individuals and teams face during organizational change, and knowledge in how to effectively manage them.
Adaptive Leadership for Public Health Podcast Series
Adaptive Leadership for Public Health is a six-part podcast series created to help tier 3 (senior management/executive level) public health professionals address complex challenges by growing and thriving as an adaptive leader.
Addressing Environmental Injustices and Their Impact on Public Health: Water, Water Everywhere, But None That We Can Drink
The concept that everyone is entitled to experience and enjoy clean air, water, and soil should not be a foreign concept. Yet, millions of communities across the country suffer from environmental injustices that prevent this dream from becoming a reality. As part of a movement that started in the 1970s, environmental justice advocates have tirelessly been the voice of those who were denied a seat at the table regarding the environmental policy and economic decisions that impacted their lives. Recently, the movement has benefited extensively from key partnerships with the White House, federal agencies, Congress. In some cases, the regulated community and together communities have been able to capitalize on unprecedented funding opportunities with the passage of the Bi-partisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. There is undoubtedly a role for public health officials within the ever-expanding advocacy tent in support of communities most in need. While adverse public health impacts are vast, this webinar focuses on a key component: clean water. The presentation will discuss the historical underpinnings of the environmental justice movement, the most recent policy developments, and the tools and resources available to bring key stakeholders from both the public and private realms to make lasting change.
Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Workplace through Mentorship
This course will provide an introduction to mentorship, best practices and expectations of mentees and mentors, and organizational strategies for implementing a successful mentorship program to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. In this course, mentorship is presented as an effective strategy to advance DEI among individuals, groups, and organizations, especially those in governmental public health agencies. There are no prerequisites.
Age-Friendly Public Health Systems in Action
Over the last 10 years, the number of adults in the U.S. aged 65 and over increased by over 34%, and is expected to grow to 98 million, or 24% of the U.S. population by 2060. Healthy aging has not historically been central to the public health agenda but clearly, public health interventions are at least partly responsible for the longevity we are experiencing today. Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) is working to elevate healthy aging as a core public health function through its Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) movement, based on a framework of six tenets that are guiding public health efforts to improve older adult health and well-being. This web training session will introduce participants to AFPHS, including examples from one local and one state health department that have adopted and implemented APHFS principles.
An Introduction to Community Assessment and Data Collection
This course provides an introduction to community assessment, data collection and sharing data findings. It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce.
An Introduction to Harm Reduction
What is Harm Reduction? How does it improve public health? By focusing on positive change, harm reduction encompasses a range of evidence-based and cost-effective services to reduce negative consequences for people who use drugs.
An Introduction to Health in All Policies (HiAP) Implementation
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a proven tool that agencies and organizations can use as they work to embed health considerations into decisions, policies, and programs to address the most upstream determinants of health and advance health equity. In this webinar, NACCHO will provide an introduction to HiAP and the resources available, and Franklin County Public Health, OH, will give an overview of how they implemented HiAP in their jurisdiction.
An Overview of Public Health Reaching Across Sectors
This online course is an overview of Public Health Reaching Across Sectors or PHRASES, a compilation of communication strategies and tools for public health professionals to use to foster a better understanding of public health and the greater willingness of other sectors to engage in cross-sector partnerships. It will provide an introduction to how productive framing and messaging can improve partnerships and overall health outcomes, and an overview of the tools and strategies PHRASES provides to improve communication to other sectors.
Becoming the Health Strategist: Putting Your Skills into Action
The landscape of public health is shifting dramatically as demands grow for impact and approaches that address the social determinants of health. It is in this context that Public Health 3.0, the Health Impact Pyramid, and the Collective Impact Model have emerged.
Becoming the Hero of Your Story: Developing and Distributing Persuasive, Resonant Messages for Your Key Audiences
Travel with us into the world of message development and learn how crafting the right calls to action can help your key audiences on their journeys to better health.
Bolstering Nutrition Security: Public Health Strategies That Promote Healthier Food Environments
Poor nutrition is associated with early disease and death in the United States due to the increased risk for diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. While poor nutrition can affect anyone, not all Americans have consistent and equitable access to healthy, safe, and affordable food. This talk will cover evidence-based nutrition interventions that are part of state and community efforts to improve nutrition security. The webinar will touch on nutrition standards within early care and education (childcare), food banks and pantries, as well as food service guidelines that can be used in parks and recreation, worksites, hospitals, and other community settings. The webinar will also discuss community fruit and vegetable programs, including voucher incentives and Produce Prescription programs to help individuals become more food secure and help support chronic disease self-management. CDC’s web resources, such as Data, Trends, Maps, and its State and Community Media Center, which hosts nutrition content for reaching consumer audiences, will be provided.
Changing Narratives and Shifting Power for Health Equity
In this training, viewers will learn to identify dominant narratives in public health and how our own beliefs and values shape our engagement with communities; understand power as a concept, how power is expressed, and ways to map power within systems and institutions; and describe the principles of community power building and how to integrate these principles in public health practice.
Childhood Obesity: Simulating the Impacts of Policy Interventions
Systems thinking, especially with simulation models, facilitates understanding of complex health policy problems.
Civic Health, Voting, and Public Health: What’s at Stake in 2024
Explore the critical connections between civic engagement, voting, and public health in this interactive webinar. We will dive into how civic health shapes policy outcomes, the role of voting in advancing health equity, and the implications of the 2024 election on public health initiatives. Participants will gain practical tools and strategies to strengthen civic engagement and promote equitable health outcomes in their communities or organizations.
Climate Change Impacts on Vector Borne Diseases
In this webinar Dr. Luis Chaves will present results from his research on Malaria, Leishmaniasis and other vector-borne diseases that have illustrated the importance of climate change to understand emerging ecological and epidemiological patterns on the transmission of vector-borne diseases.
Colorectal Cancer: The Latest Research and Guidance on Risk, Screening Recommendations, and Resources to Support Public Health Professionals
In 2024, an estimated 159,600 cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed in the US, and a total of 53,010 people will die from these cancers. Raising colorectal cancer screening rates is more critical than ever as incidence grows among people younger than 55 years of age. Even more concerning are recent findings that show colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in men and the second in women under 50 years old. This leads us to ask questions about why rates have gone up and what we should be looking for. This webinar will discuss current nutrition and colorectal cancer research being conducted through the American Cancer Society. It will also address the basics of colorectal cancer by touching on current guidelines and the importance of making this cancer an area of focus. The webinar will introduce the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable and provide several resources available to public health practitioners.
Community Assessment: Conducting Focus Groups
Community assessments use qualitative methods to learn about beliefs, values, and perspectives of needs and assets of a community. Qualitative methods include interviews, focus groups, and forums. The purpose of this course is to introduce focus groups as a method to gain valuable community-level data and provide a practical strategy to plan for, conduct, and analyze the results of a focus group. It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce. There are no prerequisites.
Community Assessment: Conducting Surveys
This course provides an introduction to planning for and conducting community surveys. It introduces concepts and applies knowledge and skills that are essential for planning for and conducting a survey and analyzing and disseminating survey data specifically for the purpose of community assessment. It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce. There are no prerequisites.
Community Assessment: Conducting Windshield and Walking Surveys
This course introduces the components of windshield and walking surveys, explains the data collection and analysis process, and discusses how observational data can be used to inform subsequent phases of the community assessment. It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce.
Cross-Sector Collaboration – Easy to Say, Challenging to Do: An Introduction to PHRASES
Forward-thinking public health professionals are reaching across sectors to build healthier communities. Many leaders in other sectors do not understand the value of collaborating with public health.
Cultural Competency in the Public Health and Health Care Workforce
As the nation continues to become increasingly diverse, public health professionals and health care providers must become culturally competent in their knowledge, development and implementation of practices informed by differing cultures, beliefs and attitudes.
Cultural Humility and the Transformation of Scripts of Inequality
In order to strive to eliminate health disparities, public health practitioners must go beyond cultural competency which is part of the process rather than an end goal.
Data Visualization and Storytelling for Public Health Professionals: How to Present Your Data in Meaningful and Impactful Ways
Data visualization and storytelling are powerful tools that can help you make sense of your data, as well as to communicate data insights, guide decision-making and persuade others. This webinar introduces the essential principles of data visualization and data storytelling. Participants will learn to transform data into compelling narratives and persuasive arguments, tailor visualizations for a specific audience, and avoid the most common data visualization and storytelling mistakes.
Data-Driven and Equity-Driven Tools to Assess Climate, Health, and Equity Locally
Which data and tools can help us determine patterns of unfair differences and drive equitable solutions? This presentation will introduce a range of actionable tools, applied nationally to indicate vulnerability at the nexus of climate change, health, and equity. Equity is deeply connected to all health issues, and climate risks are exacerbating these problems. How can we promote interventions which maximize co-benefits and holistically foster well-being?
Difficult Dialogues: Learning Effective Communication About Tough Topics
In today’s polarized and increasingly isolated communication landscape it can feel impossible to break through the noise and establish a meaningful dialogue about issues related to the COVID019 pandemic. In this webinar Dr. Adam Brooks from the University of Alabama shares with us the basis for effective communication and how to shift tough topics from a debate to a dialogue.
Dr. Joseph McCormick: My Adventures Over 50 Years in Global Public Health
Joseph B. McCormick, the founding Dean at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, discusses the adventures during his career which spans decades, countries and organizations. Dr. McCormick and his wife Susan published an account of their journeys tracking viruses in Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC, which has been published in 8 languages.
Embracing Public Health 3.0 and Creating Cross-Sector Partnerships
The Future of Public Health report, published in 1988, by the Institute of Medicine, highlighted emerging issues and questioned health departments’ infrastructures and capacity to respond. The report revealed a public health system in disarray. Over the years, public health has evolved, and many health concerns have been addressed.
Emergent Leadership for our Times: A Life-Affirming Approach to Collaborative Leadership
This session will introduce the participant to regenerative leadership (RL)- a positive, strength-based, relational, and adaptive approach to leading in complex times. The webinar will focus first on the concept of “leading with your whole self” and then define the RL approach to collaborating in complex contexts. The webinar will introduce the key mindset shifts required to develop your RL capabilities and specific skills required for more effective, collaborative leadership in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times.
Emory Urban Health Initiative: Applying Principles of Participatory Community Engagement to Advance Health Equity
This webinar will describe the work of Emory Urban Health Initiative in advancing the social, economic, and ecological well-being of communities in the Atlanta metro area. Participants will learn about best-practice models for participatory community engagement within low-wealth and underserved communities. Attendees will also gain perspective about the collaborative model of the program in developing health career students into future professionals who embrace and engage communities in self-efficacy and experiential approaches to solving the health problems affecting their communities.
Fighting for Public Health: How Do We Strengthen Public Health Advocacy at Local, State, and National Levels?
The politicization of widely accepted practices like vaccinations and the declaration of public health emergencies is directly impacting public health’s ability to protect and promote healthy communities. The decline in trust and investment in public health has raised the question: How can we strengthen public health advocacy at local, state, and national levels? In a feasibility study conducted by the Network for Public Health Law, public health advocates and leaders from 45 organizations were asked this very question. Their responses provide a snapshot of the current state of public health and highlight opportunities to amplify the voice of public health and our partners in advocating for evidence-based policies and approaches. Join us in this webinar to learn more about the findings from this study and the opportunities to work together to support the profession and practice of public health. Participants will also learn how to build skills to better communicate public health to all in their community and the resources available to support this critical advocacy work.
Foundations of Community Engagement and Outreach for Improving Health Outcomes Series
Foundations of Community Engagement and Outreach for Improving Health Outcomes is a 3-part webinar series designed to build capacity in effective community engagement and outreach, focusing on overcoming barriers, fostering trust, and developing sustainable practices to improve health outcomes. Each session addresses key challenges and solutions to equip health departments with knowledge, skills, and resources to improve their community outreach efforts. Learners may choose to register for all webinars in the series or for individual sessions.
Foundations of Community Engagement and Outreach for Improving Health Outcomes: Breaking Barriers Through Effective Communication with Communities
This is the second session in a 3-part webinar series that is designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of public health staff at local health departments in the Southeastern United States. The series aims to build capacity in effective community engagement and outreach, focusing on overcoming barriers, fostering trust, and developing sustainable practices to improve health outcomes. Each session addresses key challenges and solutions to equip health departments with knowledge, skills, and resources to improve their community outreach efforts. This webinar explores effective communication strategies to engage with communities in a culturally responsive manner. This session will address language and literacy barriers, misinformation, and the need for culturally sensitive interactions. The goal of this session is to equip participants with practical tools and techniques for fostering clear, respectful, and impactful communication with diverse populations.
Foundations of Community Engagement and Outreach for Improving Health Outcomes: Building Trust and Relationships with Communities
This is the first session in a 3-part webinar series that is designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of public health staff at local health departments in the Southeastern United States. This webinar is an introduction to community engagement, focusing on strategies for building trust and relationships with communities. This session will cover methods to address historical mistrust and develop meaningful partnerships. The goal of this session is to equip local health department staff with actionable community engagement and outreach strategies to improve health outcomes.
Foundations of Community Engagement and Outreach for Improving Health Outcomes: Sustaining Engagement and Achieving Health Outcomes with Communities
This is the third session in a 3-part webinar series that is designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of public health staff at local health departments in the Southeastern United States. The series aims to build capacity in effective community engagement and outreach, focusing on overcoming barriers, fostering trust, and developing sustainable practices to improve health outcomes. Each session addresses key challenges and solutions to equip health departments with knowledge, skills, and resources to improve their community outreach efforts. This webinar will focus on strategies for maintaining long-term community partnerships and the importance of evaluating engagement efforts. Participants will learn the importance of creating sustainable practices and assessing the impact of community engagement activities. The goal of this session is to provide participants with the knowledge and tools to foster enduring relationships with community partners, implement consistent and effective engagement practices, and utilize evaluation methods to measure and improve the outcomes of their initiatives.
Foundations of Health Communication
Foundations of Health Communication is a series of self-paced courses geared towards addressing the need for effective communication skills essential to the public health workforce’s efforts to collaborate with partners and teams, educate policy makers, convey messages during an emergency, or take action in other ways as we work to build healthier communities.
Future-Proof Public Health: Learning Agility for Leaders in a Changing World
In today’s unpredictable public health environment, agility is a critical trait for leaders to thrive. Learning agility means adapting swiftly in ambiguous situations, applying past lessons to new challenges, and embracing curiosity. Agile leaders don’t rely on conventional solutions but continuously seek improvement and innovation. While agility is partly an inherent trait, it can be developed over time. Though more difficult to cultivate than skills like communication, leaders can enhance their agility through continuous learning and open-mindedness. In this rapidly changing landscape, learning agility is the cornerstone of future-proof leadership in public health.
Health Equity in the Face of Change: Tools for a National Campaign Against Racism
Dr. Camara Jones presents a Cliff Analogy for understanding three dimensions of health intervention
Infection Prevention: What Is It? Can It Really Help Protect Us from Pathogens?
COVID has reminded us how vulnerable the human race is to pathogens. Infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics are not new. They have helped shape how the human race has evolved and how we live in the world. In this webinar, Mary Duncan, Sr Director of Infection Prevention at the University of Alabama-Birmingham Health System, will explain what infection prevention is and how it can help protect us from infectious diseases. She will review the evolution of infection prevention and explore key infection prevention measures that are used every day.
It Takes a Village: Building Community-Based Partnerships Across Sectors
The Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is implementing new traffic safety policies that highlight equity through the National Road Safety Strategy and Safe System Approach. But keeping the public safe and healthy requires coordination and collaboration across multiple sectors. The Department of Public Health and the Department of Transportation have successfully worked together to build community partnerships to address health equity and improve road safety. This webinar will review these programs and policies and highlight specific examples from the field to learn how public health agencies in Alabama and Georgia are successfully reaching underserved and at-risk communities through evidence-based traffic safety programming.
Leadership and Multi-generational Dynamics: Mentoring a New Generation of Leaders in the Workforce
This webinar will expose participants to both the challenges and benefits of a transgenerational workforce for public health professionals as it relates to the future of health and healthcare delivery in the United States.
Leadership Journey Podcast Series
In the Leadership Journey Series, we focus on the journey of leadership and how to recognize your strengths to better understand your purpose as a leader.
Leading in a Virtual Environment: Staying Connected with Your People, Your Work, and Your Mission
The most important aspects of leadership involve how well a leader communicates and connects to their team. Now that the standard workplace environment is online or a hybrid of in-person and online teams, what does leadership look like? And what is required of leaders to meaningfully connect to their team in order to cultivate good communication and engagement—and what do they do when they realize it’s not working? “Virtual Drift” refers to the gradual, unintentional tendency for virtual and hybrid team members to become increasingly disconnected from one another, from the work itself, and from the overall mission of the organization. It is critical for leaders to recognize this tendency, and actively counter that “drift” with intentional opportunities for team members to connect to one another, to the content of the work, and to the mission and meaning of the organization.
Leveraging Emotional Intelligence and Diversity in Public Health
This webinar will explore what it means to develop your emotional intelligence across lines of difference. In addition to reviewing the foundational EQ (Emotional Quotient) framework developed by Goleman (1995), we will explore the emotional intelligence and diversity model developed by Gardenswartz, Cherbosque, and Rowe (2010). Public health professionals attending this webinar will understand how EQ influences their own worldview, gain insights into others’ perceptions and the importance of managing emotions and building relationships with people from diverse backgrounds, intellects, and cultural perspectives. The webinar will conclude with strategies to create environments where public health efforts can succeed, and diversity can thrive.
Leveraging Motivational Interviewing to Foster Positive Behavioral Change in Injury Prevention with Teens
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative communication technique that aims to strengthen a person’s commitment and motivation to change. This webinar will review the basic concepts and skills needed to promote behavior change, especially when there is limited time with individuals. In this webinar, MI skills will be demonstrated through case scenarios related to injury prevention topics relevant to teens such as helmet use and teen driving behaviors. You will see these MI strategies applied to real life scenarios with engagement opportunities to practice applying these skills.
Making Connections: Enhancing Collaboration through Effective Communication and Person-Centered Engagement
This workshop will focus on effective communication, increase awareness, and the importance of active listening when engaging with colleagues, clients, and others. We will use interactive activities and discussions to teach techniques such as; active listening, positive reinforcement, and clear feedback. There will also be an emphasis on cultural humility and coalition building. The goal is to improve communication with others in the workplace and in their community.
Misinformation As a Risk Factor During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Misinformation has been a risk factor throughout the pandemic, leading to more disease and death from COVID-19. Dr. Katrine Wallace (UIC School of Public Health) is an epidemiologist and social media science communicator who debunks misinformation and false claims about COVID-19 and the vaccines. In this talk, she will discuss the difference between misinformation vs disinformation, the techniques that people use to mislead, why misinformation goes so viral on social media, and how viral misinformation is negatively affecting public health.
Modern Mentorship: Growing Public Health Leaders
Now more than ever public health is doing more with less. How can we grow, retain and better engage our best resource: our people?
Navigating the Public Health Data Landscape with Data Governance, Literacy, and Equity
In today’s rapidly evolving public health environment, building a strong foundation in data governance, literacy, and equity is essential for creating a data-driven and equitable public health system. This webinar explores how these foundational components can empower public health organizations to better serve communities and address health disparities. These efforts are essential for ensuring that public health workers are well-equipped to collect, manage, and utilize data responsibly and effectively. By fostering internal understanding and collaboration, public health organizations can lay the groundwork for supporting communities with the data-driven insights needed to improve health outcomes.
Overview of Opioid Misuse, Associated Harms, and Public Health Responses in the US
The webinar will describe the epidemiologies of opioid misuse and associated harms including HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and overdoses in the US, and will use empirical evidence to describe the pathways linking opioid misuse to these harms.
Pandemics, Infodemics and Information Overload: How Consistent, Clear Communication Can Help in Future Outbreaks
In this webinar, Dr. Wallace, Epidemiologist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, will discuss about infodemics and how they occur, talk through misinformation vs correct information and how they both can contribute to infodemics, and will review the problem of infodemics, and how we can reduce information overload and confusion by prioritizing consistent and clear scientific communication to mitigate public confusion and information fatigue. This webinar is presented by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control and cosponsored by the Region IV Public Health Training Center.
Physical Activity Guidelines and Move Your Way®: NC & MS Health Departments Implement Physical Activity Campaign
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) developed the Move Your Way® campaign in 2018 to share key recommendations from the second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. This webinar will provide an overview of the campaign, highlight how community pilots from health departments in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and Jackson, Mississippi successfully implemented Move Your Way®, and describe strategies for how public health professionals and organizations can leverage the campaign to promote physical activity in their communities.
Preventing Human Extinction as a Public Health Priority
Dr. Stephen Luby discusses how multiple threats including armed conflict involving nuclear weapons, genetically engineered pathogens, environmental catastrophes, and artificial superintelligence, could lead to human extinction by the end of the century. The global public health community should take these threats seriously and work to prevent them. Dr. Luby will discuss these threats in detail along with countermeasures to reduce their likelihood.
Public Health’s Role in the Prevention and Control of Healthcare-Associated Infection
Rates of healthcare-associated infection continue to decline due, in part, to an organized collaboration between healthcare facilities and public health partners.
Racial Disparities in COVID-19: A Public Health Perspective and Local Response
COVID-19 has highlighted the critical role that public health plays in the US and it also has demonstrated that this virus does not affect everyone equally. While it has affected the lives of all Americans, some racial and ethnic groups have been more likely to contract and die from COVID-19 than others. In this webinar, we will discuss some of the biological, behavioral and contextual factors that affect COVID-19 transmission and severity, and what public health professionals can and have been doing to reduce the impact of this virus on individuals and communities.
Racism, Bias, and Other Determinants of Health: Issues and Actions
During this webinar we will discuss racism and social determinants of health, and the role bias plays in healthcare decision making as well as its impact on adverse health outcomes. We will discuss how our backgrounds inform our perspectives and how we relate to colleagues and patients. We will also explore strategies that students and physicians can employ to mitigate bias.
Responding to Risk: Understanding Why We Do What We Do and What to Say When It Really Counts
People are predictable. Unfortunately, the world around us rarely is as easy to predict or understand. Public health professionals are called on to respond to scary, unknown, urgent, and important issues every day in big and small ways. Learning strategies for risk communication can make this work a little bit easier and a lot more effective. This webinar introduces basic concepts of risk communication as well as the critical principles of how to communicate during an outbreak, crisis or emergency situation. This training also provides insights into how and why people respond to risk, and helps participants understand the mental shortcuts that are common responses to hazards, risks, and threats. Practical tips are presented throughout to help participants gain skills in assessing and responding to their individual situations in their communities.
Shaping Organizational Culture: The Role of Leaders
Leaders in all levels of an organization take on many roles in leading people toward the strategic direction of the organization.
Show Me the Money! Effective Strategies for Identifying and Writing Winning Grants
Public health practice depends on funding to function. This training focuses on understanding, identifying, and securing funding to meet your organizations’ strategic needs. Strategic grant writing aligns the needs of organizations with funding sources, whether foundations, government agencies, corporations, or individuals. This webinar offers an introductory-level guide to the basics of strategic grant writing and how to successfully identify, plan, and write winning grants. It also outlines the components included in every grant proposal and highlights grant writing best practices, tips, tools, and resources to support your grant writing efforts.
Stop Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Hate
Since early 2020, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across the country have been subjected to racist physical and verbal attacks sparked by the pandemic. Thousands of incidents have been reported to the Stop AAPI Hate coalition, which consists of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action, and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University. The Stop AAPI Hate coalition has been working to track and respond to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against AAPIs.
Strategies for Combatting Health Misinformation
Misinformation has been a risk factor throughout the pandemic, leading to more disease and death from COVID-19. Dr. Katrine Wallace (UIC School of Public Health) is an epidemiologist and social media science communicator who debunks misinformation and false claims about COVID-19 and the vaccines. In this webinar, Dr. Wallace will explain the difference between misinformation vs disinformation, discuss why disinformation is such a widespread public health issue, and identify strategies to combat health misinformation among your own friends/family/workplace.
The Changing Landscape of Antimicrobial Resistance Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the largest health threats to healthcare systems and the COVID-19 pandemic has identified weaknesses that have allowed for transmission within hospitals. In this talk, Dr. Rachael Lee, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and healthcare epidemiologist for the UAB Health System will provide a summary of the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in a pandemic era.
The Emotionally Intelligent Leader: A Critical Role in Improving the Work Environment
An emotionally intelligent leader is aware of their thoughts and behaviors and how the two impact the individuals and teams they lead. The result, more productive and collaborative teams who communicate effectively. The Emotionally Intelligent Leader webinar will dispel myths about emotions’ place in the work environments and provide a foundational understanding of emotional intelligence to include an introduction to a theoretical model that guides individual and social behaviors. Participants will complete this webinar with skills and strategies to elevate their emotional intelligence for their personal and team’s success.
The Interface of Public Health and Health Care: Population Health through Improved Infectious Disease Prevention and Management
This webinar will introduce the audience to the national dialogue about public health and healthcare system integration.
Thriving through Change
Change can be scary. It involves terrible things like the unknown, discomfort, work, and losing control. It can also be an opportunity for discovery, growth, creativity, and letting go. In fact, these things are often two sides of the same coin. So how can we make the most out of a world where so much is constantly in flux?
Unconscious Bias: Do I Have the Tools to Recognize It and Speak Up?
Unconscious bias refers to the biases we hold that are not in our conscious control. Research shows that these biases can adversely affect key decisions in the workplace.
Understanding Models to Predict Viral Spread and Community Impact
In this presentation we will discuss how models predict viral spread including the spread of COVID-19 as well as the impact it has on the community. We will review three modeling strategies used to model viral spread and how assumptions in models impact decisions made from various model outputs. We will also explore how models are used in public health policy to control infectious disease spread.
Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of Sexual Violence and Relationship Harm
This webinar will discuss the mental health effects and impacts of sexual violence and relationship harm. The webinar will include general information about sexual violence, give an overview of mental health, and discuss how the two meet and effect a person who has experienced assault in their lifetime.
Understanding the Rural Landscape: What Works in Improving Health and Well-Being
This webinar is an opportunity to address what works to reduce disparities in rural communities and what’s needed in future research and practice.
Unexplained Pediatric Deaths: Investigation, Certification, and Family Needs: Procedural Guidance and Key Considerations Developed by the National Association of Medical Examiner’s Panel on Sudden Unexpected Death in Pediatrics
The workshop focuses on the medicolegal investigation of sudden, unexpected pediatric deaths, focusing on those deaths which remain incompletely understood or entirely unexplained. It discusses the evolution of our understanding and practice in the area of sudden, unexpected pediatric death investigation. Procedural guidance for investigation, certification and reporting, and key considerations for prevention and working with family members and other professional team members are provided.
Update on Childhood Vaccines: Getting Ready for the School Year
Vaccines are among the most significant medical advances in the history of the world. Hundreds of millions of lives have been saved or kept whole through vaccination programs. In our global world, though, all vaccine-preventable diseases except smallpox are a mere 18 hours away by plane. Diseases that were common only 30 years ago now are exceedingly rare, but without continued vigilance in the use of the vaccines that led to this success, we risk the reemergence of these pathogens. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the risks of new viruses spilling over to the human population, and as bad as that was, it would have been that much worse if safe and effective vaccines had not been developed in record time. That said, the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine program also illustrated the importance of all of us understanding why we need to be vaccinated – they only work if they are used.
Using Behavioral Theory to Understand the Red/Blue Divide in COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions
This webinar is presented by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control Training and Technical Assistance. Political partisanship is an important predictor of COVID-19 vaccination status. This webinar will discuss the results from research testing the hypothesis that partisan differences in intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine can be explained by a commonly used theory of behavioral health intentions, Protection Motivation Theory. This webinar is co-sponsored by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control and the Region IV Public Health Training Center.
Using Message Framing Tools to Build and Sustain Cross-Sector Partnerships
This course focuses on the 10 PHRASES framing recommendations and four framing tools. The four framing tools included in the PHRASES Toolkit are frame elements, sample emails, “When You Say They Think” charts, and reframed answers to tough questions.
Value Based Care 101: Understanding and Preparing for Alternative Payment Models
This is the first in a series of two webinars about Values Based Care.
Value Based Care 101 will be presented by Michaelle Gady, JD, President and CEO of Atromitos, LLC, Peter Freeman, Senior Consultant at Atromitos, and Sarah Jagger, Vice President of Operations at Atromitos. This is a one-hour presentation followed by 30-minutes of Q&A.
Value Based Care 201: Preparedness for the Implementation of VBC Models
This is the second in a series of two webinars about Value Based Care.
Value Based Care 201 will be presented by Michaelle Gady, JD, President & CEO of Atromitos, LLC, Peter Freeman, Senior Consultant at Atromitos, and Sarah Jagger, Vice President of Operations at Atromitos. A one hour presentation will be followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Historical Impact of Population Health Disparities and Finding a Path Toward Equity
Health equity—the state in which everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible—is a pressing need and identified priority that state and local health departments are currently trying to address with additional resources and efforts across the country. However, before we can implement effective tools for change, we must first understand the historical context and generational trauma that structural and systemic racism created. This inequality causes unjust barriers to health, wealth, and resources and continues to plague many communities today with a direct impact on health. This webinar will discuss the practices and plans put in place to specifically disadvantage certain populations throughout history with a higher burden of disease, injury, and violence, and what the public health workforce can do today to improve opportunities for everyone to achieve optimal health.
Working with the News Media: How to Enhance Your Message
What do we do when we are asked to talk about a public health issue? How do we ensure that the public trusts what they hear when important information about a public health issue is shared on the news? How do public health professionals demonstrate confidence and competence when called on to share important information? The objective of this webinar is to equip participants with an understanding of how to work with the news media in both a proactive and reactive manner. The course covers the basics of media relations, and provides tips on developing a media strategy, proactively pitching story ideas, interviewing techniques, staying on message, and controlling the communication.
A “One Health” Approach to Managing and Preventing Animal Bites
The “One Health” approach recognizes the linkage between human health, animal health, and the environment.
A Community Initiative to Fight the Heroin and Opiate Epidemic
Joyce White Vance was one of the first five U.S. attorneys nominated by President Barack Obama. When few recognized the emerging epidemic of heroin- and opioid-related deaths, Vance, in her role as U.S. attorney, convened the first “Pills to Needles Summit” in June 2014 that overnight galvanized community leaders around this new public health threat.
Addressing LGBTQ Health Risk and Resilience in the Southeast
Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) face a disproportionate number of structural, programmatic, and individual level barriers to address their health and wellbeing. LGBTQ communities also have developed incredible resilience and coping mechanisms in response to daily experiences with stigma and discrimination. In this webinar, Dr. Sarah MacCarthy, the first appointed holder of the Magic City LGBTQ Health Studies Endowed Professorship at the UAB School of Public Health, will discuss different terms and concepts related to LGBTQ health, with attention to the ways in which the rapidly changing landscape impacts research and practice. Dr. MacCarthy will describe LGBTQ health inequities nationally, highlight the ways in which unique barriers and facilitators impact the Southeast, and identify resources that health departments can use to find evidence-based practices to serve this population.
Addressing Racial HIV Disparities Using Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among Young Adults: Considerations for Practice
African Americans are disproportionately affected by HIV. Reducing HIV rates among African American young adults may produce the most meaningful impact in addressing the HIV epidemic in the US. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication regimen to reduce risk of HIV infection, is a promising HIV prevention strategy but its benefits have not been fully realized among African American young adults. This webinar focuses on barriers to PrEP access and uptake among this population and examines approaches to address these barriers. Considerations regarding PrEP during the COVID-19 pandemic will also be explored.
Addressing Your Questions About COVID-19
With our state and local public health workers being at the forefront of this pandemic, you are in a position to provide your community with life-saving information. Yet, with the COVID-19 landscape changing so rapidly, it is hard to have the latest, accurate information to educate those in your community. With this webinar you will have the opportunity to ask questions and receive feedback from our speaker, Carlos del Rio, MD. This webinar will have a brief update on the pandemic with the majority of the time spent on Q & A.
Air Pollution and Health: Making the Jump between the Laboratory Bench and Public Policy
Every day millions of Americans are exposed to air pollution levels that have been shown to be linked to both acute and chronic health effects. Sources of air pollution are not created equal, however, and some are known to be more toxic than others.
Alabama Public Health Training Network COVID-19 Series
This series includes:
Self Care in Challenging Times: Care for the Caregiver in the Age of COVID-19, broadcast on July 22, 2020
Intersection of Stigma and Fear: Living with HIV in the Age of COVID-19, broadcast on July 8, 2020
Addressing the Needs of Consumers with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in the Age of COVID-19, broadcast on June 24, 2020
Addressing the Needs of Older Adults in the Age of COVID-19, broadcast on June 10, 2020
Alzheimer’s from A to Z: Memory Loss, Dementia and the Basics of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of aging. It is the most common form of dementia and accounts for 60-80% of all cases of dementia in American’s aged 71 and older.
Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance
This program will address one of the biggest public health challenges of our time: antibiotic resistance. Faculty will aim to provide better understanding of the roles of professionals in Antibiotic Stewardship.
Assessment and Management of Travelers and Returnees to the US from Countries with Active Ebola
Students will learn protocol and methods of monitoring arrivees into the US from Ebola risk zones.
At-Risk Adult Abuse: Hiding in Plain Sight
Learn how to recognize signs of elder abuse in a healthcare setting by better understanding Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation (ANE) and related policies.
Basic Tenets of Risk Communication for Public Health Professionals
The goal of risk communication is to influence risk perception sufficiently enough to motivate the audience to protective action. This course details the components of communicating risk effectively, including targeting audiences and developing messages.
Bivariate Linear Correlation
Bivariate Linear Correlation introduces the correlation coefficient, r. The course reviews graphical representation of correlation as well as computation and evaluation of r.
Bridging Mental Health and Public Health During COVID-19: A Town Hall
The COVID-19 Pandemic has placed both mental health and public health workers on the front lines in an array of on-going stressful situations. As a result, mental health and public health agencies have had to innovate and adapt practices to support and care for their workforce and the populations they serve. This townhall event will feature mental health and public health agency representatives sharing insight on ways they have addressed COVID-19 while also supporting staff, the value of Mental Health-Public Health partnerships, and the related challenges they anticipate during the first half of 2021.
Bring the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Literacy Precautions to Life in Your Practice
The purpose of this presentation is to inform and engage participants about health literacy.
Budgeting: Linking Strategies to Resource Allocations
This webinar will present to public health professionals the association between strategies and budgets, the types of budgets, the process of formulating a budget using a case study from a local public health department, and the fundamentals of measuring budget effectiveness.
Building Psychological Resilience for the Public Health Workforce during the COVID19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a second pandemic of stress, anxiety and fear. As public health workers, your work has a unique level of stress during this time. We are best able to maintain our mental health through these difficult times if we stay aware of the effects of stress, take steps to stay mentally healthy, and maintain connections with others. This webinar will offer information on awareness, self-care and connection with others so public health workers can develop a plan for maintaining their mental health. We will discuss common issues such as coping with fear, anxiety and loss; changing work demands; navigating family relationships; and coping with an uncertain future as the pandemic continues.
Building Response-Ready State and Local Health Departments Across the Nation
This webinar will discuss an overview of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of State and Local Readiness and Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Program
Change Management: A Critical Strategic Skill for Public Health Workers
The modern public health workforce must not only be specialized and knowledgeable experts in scientific disciplines, but also in the strategic skills necessary to be impactful in an increasingly complex industry.
Change, Challenge, Adversity, and Resilience: Ideas and Tools for a Turbulent World
This webinar will introduce you to some ideas and tools that can support your effectiveness and well-being. We’ll discuss the relationship between change, challenge, and personal energy.
Chemical Hazards During COVID-19: Disinfectants, Cleaning Chemicals & Tear Gas
The COVID-19 pandemic has created numerous challenges to EMS and Healthcare Providers including responding and managing injuries from exposures to cleaning chemicals and disinfectants by patients who are concerned with virus transmission. Additionally, recent protests have raised concerns regarding risks of viral transmission during crowd gatherings, however, injuries from trauma and tear gas have also been reported. During this webinar, two experts in medical toxicology, will discuss hazards from disinfectants, cleaning chemicals and tear gas as well as the emergency assessment and management of associated injuries.
Chemical Warfare: A Primer for First Responders & Receivers
The purpose of this program is to raise awareness of the dangers caused by single and dual use chemicals that have been used in warfare such as arsenicals.
Children’s Environmental Health: More Than Smoke and Mold
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 1 in 4 child deaths could be prevented by cleaning up the environment. Because of their developing bodies and minds, children can be at greater risk of harm to environmental toxicants than adults.
Communicate Effectively While Wearing a Mask and in Virtual Environments
As we begin discussions of re-opening the nation, we are all faced with the reality of walking back into a world that is vastly different than just a few months ago.
Communication Challenges Surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided and continues to provide huge challenges to our public health system. One challenge has been behavioral, in that mitigating the consequences of the disease involves huge behavioral changes and long term cooperation on the part of the public at large. Changing behavior and gaining the public’s cooperation is in part a problem in communication and persuasion. In this webinar, we will discuss four challenges to communicating successfully during the COVID-19 pandemic including: (1) the need for clear, consistent, credible and apolitical communication (CCCaP); (2) how various types of informational uncertainty challenge CCCaP; (3) how misinformation challenges CCCaP and how it can be addressed (and not addressed); and (4) looking ahead to the virus’ demise with the development of a successful vaccine, public health campaigns must ready the public to accept vaccination especially in communities which have traditionally had low vaccination rates.
Concepts of Epidemiology Workshop Series
There are three workshops in the series: basic, intermediate and advanced concepts of epidemiology. All workshops are presented by Danielle Fastring. Dr. Fastring is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi in the School of Nursing and Health Professions where she teaches graduate courses in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health, and SAS programming.
She received her PhD in Epidemiology from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She was a Fellow in the Maternal Child Health Epidemiology Doctoral Training Program sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Connecting Cross-Sectors to Advance Health Equity Where it Matters
Recently, we have seen an increase in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace to address public health inequities. The slogan “Nothing for us, without us” has encouraged inclusivity and representation of disparate end-users in the planning and implementation of interventions that address Social Determinants of Health. However, to effectively address disparities, we must reach beyond roles, and collaborate to address multi-sectoral problems that foster inequalities.
Controlling Asthma in Georgia: Accomplishments and Future Directions
Dr. Elizabeth Herman, senior scientist with the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch, National Center for Environmental Health at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will share the national perspective on the burden of asthma.
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Protecting the Public from the Current Outbreak
This webinar will share information on what the COVID-19 is, how it is transmitted and the current distribution of cases. Participants will learn how to identify the symptoms of a COVID-19 infection and how to report a person under investigation. The webinar will conclude with key prevention and protection strategies as well as communication messages for the public.
COVID-19 in Pediatrics
The webinar will discuss COVID-19 in pediatric patients specifically focusing on their pre-hospital management with a target audience of first responders. We will review the epidemiology of COVID-19 in pediatrics, assessment and management of pediatric patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, prehospital management of pediatric respiratory emergencies and patients with COVID-19, discuss the emerging illness known at MIS-C, and review prehospital cases of pediatric patients with COVID-19.
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Isolated Child: Risks and Stressors
During this webinar, we will address a variety of issues facing children and families during the pandemic including risks due to social isolation, virtual schooling, and the added stress on families. It will discuss how to help children adjust to being back to in-person school and stressors they may be experiencing. Resources will be provided to support children and families.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
The Medical University of South Carolina Department of Public Health Sciences is hosting a Public Health Training Web Series. This webinar will focus on COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy. The presenter will be Dr. Danielle Scheurer, Professor of Quality Management and Patient Safety at the Medical University of South Carolina.
COVID-19 Virtual Cafes
This series of on-demand recordings includes:
Disease Detectives: Epidemiology in the Field with Dr. Colin Smith
The Epidemiology of COVID-19: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? with Dr. Julia Buck
COVID-19 Vaccine: The Science Behind Our Immunity with Dr. Jennifer McCall
Combating COVID-19 in New Hanover County
Building a Resilient Community
Creating a Learning Agenda for Systems Change: A Toolkit for Building an Adaptive Public Health Workforce
Many complex and systemic challenges such as racism, the opioid crisis and mental health stand at the root of community health issues. These are challenges that no individual can address alone, and no single solution or intervention will solve. Therefore, the public health workforce needs to have the knowledge and skills to respond adaptively and to engage in multi-sector collaborations and multi-level interventions. Existing public health workforce development models, however, largely address gaps in specific skills or content areas of individual learners and individual competencies.
The Public Health Learning Network (PHLN) has developed the Learning Agenda Toolkit to help the public health workforce develop a coordinated system of effective, efficient and quality learning to address complex challenges. The Creating a Learning Agenda for Systems Change: A Toolkit for Building an Adaptive Public Health Workforce includes a conceptual Learning Framework, Rapid Assessment Tool, Discussion Guide, and Learning Approach Planning Tool to help public health leaders and workforce development specialists build a robust Learning Agenda and achieve their vision of systems change. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of the Learning Agenda Toolkit and how different Learning Approaches – implemented over time – can be used to build collective competency to address community challenges. The session will also include a discussion of some ways that public health leaders might use the Learning Framework and tools to better align Learning Opportunities to address their communities’ challenges.
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC): Examples from Ebola
Health communication is a critical piece of keeping the public safe during a public health emergency. During this two hour interactive session, the audience will learn the principles behind crisis and emergency risk communication.
Crisis on Top of Crisis: Guidance for Disaster Shelters during the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Deliver the Message
Preparing for hurricane season can be stressful especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. During this webinar, CDC experts will discuss special considerations for general population hurricane shelters during the COVID-19 pandemic and how community leaders, nonprofit organizations, and public health professionals can effectively communicate messages. They will also share hurricane resources and educational materials you can use and distribute within your own communities.
Cross-sector Collaboration to Address the Prescription Drug Misuse Crisis
This webinar will describe East Tennessee State University’s efforts to curb the opioid epidemic along the continuum of addiction.
Cultivating Cultural Humility in Public Health Practice
The webinar will be presented by Elizabeth A. Brown, PhD, MPA Assistant Professor in the College of Health Professions.
Cultural Awareness for Contraception Counseling as Routine Evidence Based Practice for Minority Women
Cultural awareness is a component of culturally competent care therefore this training has been developed in response to the growing diversity in the US population, and the unmet need for contraception among minority women. Additionally, a training gap for cultural competency has been identified in the public health tier 3 workforce of Region IV, according to the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) findings. The training focuses on integrating and transforming knowledge into behavior and attitude change, by adopting policy, standards, and best practices. The
framework for this resource is based on Transformative Learning Theory; a theory that supports adult learners.
Cultural Competency: HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, & Treatment
Mrs. Kiara Dale-Adenola currently serves as the regional Minority HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the Florida Department of Health in Leon county (DOH-Leon).
Data Collection Assessment Examples and Resources
Data Collection Assessment Examples and Resources applies knowledge of correlation, reliability, and validity of measurements to examples in relevant health science literature.
Data Quality and Evidence-based Decision Making in Public Health
This video is intended to train the public health workforce by providing information on: 1. Fundamentals of data and data quality. 2. Basic concepts of EBDM in public health, its relationship with data quality, and some trusted sources of public health evidence.
Diabetes Physiology and Treatment
This is a multi-lesson module composed of three lessons: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Type I Diabetes and Type II Diabetes.
Diabetes Self-Management and Education Services
This training will provide professionals information on different community-based programs focused on the prevention and management of diabetes. Participants will learn program content, how to register, cost, and other useful information to guide referral and usage.
Disaster Preparedness: Are We Ready for Kids
Children represent an at-risk segment of the population in the face of natural and man-made disasters.
Disruptive Innovations in Public Health Education
Dr. Ian Lapp, Associate Dean for Strategic Educational Initiatives, Harvard School of Public Health, discusses how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact higher education, noting that some suggest the modern university, as we know it, will be irrevocably changed.
Dynamic Education And Learning (DEAL)
Year: 2022 | Competency/Strategic Skill: Program Planning| Priority Topic: N/A | Setting: Online | Format: On-Demand | Sponsor: Emory University/Central OfficeOverview: These are recordings of our 5-session series of 90-minute interactive online...
Educating Policymakers About Public Health Issues
This webinar is appropriate for all public health professionals interested in leveraging tools, resources and data to educate policymakers.
Empowering Your Audience to Improve Their Health: Tools for Elevating Chronic Disease Communications to Support Your Programs
This webinar will present the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors’ approach to effective communications about chronic diseases and chronic disease programming.
Ending the Silence for Families
Join us as we discuss mental illness warning signs, facts and statistics. Guest presenters Annie Connor and Lauren Paul are with the Georgia chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Health.
Ending the Silence, It’s Not Too L.A.T.E. – Listen, Act, Think, Educate
Domestic abuse and sexual assault identification, resources, and education is ever increasing, particularly in the trauma-informed treatment of patients in the clinic setting.
Epidemiology 101: Fundamental Concepts for Understanding the Pandemic
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, understanding epidemiologic concepts has become paramount for personal and professional decision making. This webinar will give you several tools to read and critically think about pandemic-related news. We will explore concepts like herd immunity, vaccine efficacy, and endemic infection, and consider what they mean for COVID-19 control. Finally, we will practice disentangling correlation from causation.
Ethical Practice in Helping Professions
This program will look at seven situations where unethical, unprofessional or illegal behavior is exhibited. Program faculty will discuss the behavior exhibited in the situations and review the National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics, as well as, the Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners Administrative Code.
Fighting Flu Now and Preparing for the Future
Join this webinar to learn about the current findings about the current influenza epidemic and preparations for the season to come.
Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Lessons
Dr. Ian Lapp, Associate Dean for Strategic Educational Initiatives, Harvard School of Public Health, discusses how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact higher education, noting that some suggest the modern university, as we know it, will be irrevocably changed.
Georgia Legislative Update and the Impact on Public Health
Scott Maxwell, Founding Partner of Mathews and Maxwell, Inc. and Legislative Liaison for the Georgia Public Health Association will provide an update on the 2015 Georgia Legislative Session, including highlights of legislation and appropriations that will have an impact on public health
Giving and Receiving Feedback For Personal and Professional Growth
Without feedback, individuals and organizations cannot grow. Feedback is the key to better serving your community and getting the most out of your team.
Healer, Heal Thyself: Tools for Wellness and Self-Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
During this webinar, we will focus on helping public health professionals develop tools needed to enhance their self-care and overall wellness. Approaching wellness from a holistic perspective, participants will leave with actionable items to develop a plan for self-care. The objective is to increase the investment in their personal wellness and self-care while becoming an example for those they serve. This webinar will teach them how to relieve the stresses they face in healthy ways and help them identify mental health resources and natural supports.
Health Communication and Vector Control: Zika Lessons Learned and Priorities
Zika presents unique challenges to communicators because of the complexity and unknowns of the virus.
Health Equity: Making Your Health Department More Culturally Competent
The increasingly diverse and multicultural 21st century US population requires health departments to be deliberate when it comes to ensuring their programs, services, practices and policies do not reinforce health inequities and disparities.
Health Equity: Marriage of Programming and Policy
Join us for an insightful conversation about the intersection of programming and policy development with a focus on nutrition access and infant and maternal health.
Health Informatics
The field of informatics deals with the study of information; how it is collected, organized, stored, retrieved, transmitted and secured.
Health Literacy
This video includes an overview of health literacy to address health literacy among African Americans.
Health Literacy: Can We Confuse People Less?
Health Literacy is essential for successful access to care and use of services, self-care of chronic conditions, and maintenance of health and wellness. Health literacy is fundamental to healthcare that requires individuals to have a more active role in decisions and management.
Health Professionals for the 21st Century
Julio Frenk, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, discusses educating future health professionals in the 21st century.
Helping Alabama Stay Healthy Through Assessing for Substance Use: Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
This program will focus on the assessment of substance use as a prevention tool. Program faculty will discuss an evidenced based assessment method called SBIRT that has been shown to be effective in reducing substance misuse.
HIV & Hepatitis C – A Public Health Emergency of Nationwide Concern: Kentucky & Indiana’s Local Response
This webinar will characterize the HIV and Hepatitis C outbreak in Scott County in IN and regions within KY.
HIV/AIDS in South Carolina
The webinar will be presented by Virginia Fonner, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of the Division of Global and Community Health.
Homelessness and Health among Veterans
Veterans experience higher rates of both homelessness and suicide compared with their non-Veterans peers. In addition, Veterans experiencing adverse social determinants of health—such as homelessness—are at increased risk of suicide and other poor health outcomes. This webinar will explore the concept of homelessness and housing instability generally and experiences among Veterans specifically. We will discuss how homelessness is defined and enumerated, pathways into homelessness, trajectories of homelessness, and multi-level interventions to prevent and end homelessness. We will also explore the intersection among homelessness (and other adverse social determinants of health), Veterans’ use of tailored services to address these needs, and their experience of particular health conditions and outcomes, including suicide ideation, attempt, and death.
How MI am I? Working with Clients Across the Spectrum of Volunteerism
Clients and patients present for services in varying degrees of readiness to change. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is one evidence-based method deemed effective for addressing behavior change across the spectrum of motivation.
How To Tackle Grants
In this course, students will learn how to evaluate and interpret an RFP, develop action approaches and create a working document from the RFP, and construct an outline that incorporates goals for RFP requirements.
Human Resources Management
This course is designed to assist management and leadership public health professionals more proactively manage one of their most important resources: their workforce.
Human Trafficking Awareness for Public Health Providers
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, through abduction, the use of threat of force, deception, fraud, or sale for the purposes of sexual exploitation or forced labor.
Human Trafficking in Alabama: Resources for Healthcare Workers to Identify and Combat Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is one of the largest criminal industries in the world, second only to drug trafficking.
Human Trafficking: The Nightmare Nextdoor
Trafficking in persons has existed since the beginning of time. What was once thought to be limited to slavery in foreign countries, is now recognized as occurring in numerous forms and much closer to home. Human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar a year industry, and the numbers are rising.
Hypertension
This module discusses the physiology and treatment of hypertension, also known as high blood pressure.
Immunization in Georgia: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Dr. Patrick O’Neal, Director of Health Protection in the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) and Mr. Steve Mitchell, Georgia Immunization Director with DPH will provide an overview of the value of immunization.
Impact of Child Sexual Abuse: Empowering Prevention through Education
Child sexual abuse prevention starts with knowledge and awareness of the problem. This webinar provides professionals who work with children and families with an overview of the issue as well as tools and strategies to create safer environments for children in both a professional and personal setting. The webinar will cover practical actions adults can take to reduce instances of child sexual abuse in their organizations, families, and communities, and will give participants information about evidence-informed training programs available to deepen knowledge and enhance skill building to prepare adults to speak up and prevent sex abuse.
Implementation Science: Approaches to Integrating Research into Practice and Policy
Each year, billions of U.S. tax dollars are spent on research and hundreds of billions are spent on service delivery programs.
Improving Health Literacy Strategies for Better Patient Care
The purpose of the program is to educate community and public health care support service staff about health literacy and their role in health literacy for improved patient outcomes, and strategies to implement health literacy practices in their organization.
Improving Lung Health of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD): Alabama Perspective
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is the most common life-shortening autosomal recessive disorder that predominantly affects African Americans. Alabama has one of the highest rates of SCD according to the CDC. There are
promising curative therapies of SCD which should enhance efforts to maintain lung health in this population.
In Print and On Air: Get Ready to Work with the Media
This webinar will share concepts and tools that are useful whether you have a direct role in speaking to the media or assist public health teams that present priorities, talking points, and data to those directly representing public health in the media.
Increased Suicide Rates for U.S. Teens and Young Adults
This webinar is being co-sponsored with the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory.
Description: Youth suicide in the United States is on the rise and suicide is a leading cause of death for this population. Youth suicide is a public health challenge and requires a comprehensive approach to address its multiple risk and protective factors. Strategies with the best available evidence to prevent suicide range from strengthening economic supports of families, to reducing access to lethal means among people at risk, to promoting connectedness, teaching coping and problem-solving skills, and identifying and supporting people at risk.
Influences on Correlation Coefficients
Influences on Correlation Coefficients is the second course in a two-part series. The preceding course is Bivariate Linear Correlation.
Innovation Approaches to Tackle Public Health and Community Challenges
Systems problems, by definition, are complex and can seem impossible to tackle. However, there are tools and innovative approaches that might help public health professionals and partners make progress on these problems. Join us for a 3-part webinar series to learn tools and approaches for tackling large-scale community challenges, from maternal health to opioid overdoses.
Introduction to Data Collection and Reliability
Introduction to Data Collection and Reliability provides background for the methodology of quality data collection, and an introduction to statistical methods for measuring reliability of an instrument.
Leading Change in Informatics and Data Analysis
Change is a constant in both our personal and professional lives. The idea that human beings naturally resist change is deeply ingrained into our culture and how we think about change. This course provides public health professionals with a foundation in change management and practical tools for utilizing formal change management for an informatics or data analytics project.
Leveraging Community Health Improvement Planning to Promote Healthy Aging
This training presented by Dr. Kathy Black aims to increase the capacity of local health departments, health care organizations and allied health and social service providers to conduct community health assessment and improvement practice to promote healthy aging for older adults and broader population aging.
This training is sponsored by the University of South Florida College of Public Health’s Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice, the Florida Community Based Training partner of the Region IV Public Health Training Center based at Emory University.
Making Meetings Matter
Recent research says that executives average 23 hours per week in meetings and 49% of participants considered unfocused meetings and projects as the biggest workplace time waster and the primary reason for unproductive work days.In this session you’ll learn tactics to reduce meeting attendance and make the meetings you are going to more efficient and (dare we say) more fun. From pre-meeting planning, to structured meeting styles, to post-meeting follow up, participants will do hands-on training that will improve any meeting they are running. Stop steamrollers before they start, draw out the quiet experts in the room, be strategic with your slide deck and keep your agenda on track. By energizing and activating meetings, hopefully we can get out of meetings a little faster and a little happier.
Making Sense of COVID-19 Data
Public health data are often imperfect, which means we have to rely on multiple data streams to get a clearer picture of the present situation. Proper understanding of data with context is the antidote to disinformation. In this webinar, we’ll go through how to find and evaluate data, identifying the merits and challenges of different data sets, to make sure we have the right data to answer our questions.
Measles 411
Measles 411 provides an overview of measles, including symptoms and treatment.
Mental Health Response to Disasters: Human-Created Disasters (Part Two)
This second webinar will discuss a mental health response to human-created disasters. The phases of response to a human-created disaster will be described as well as the factors that lead to resilience.
Mental Health Response to Disasters: Natural Disasters (Part One)
This webinar is part one of a two-part series. The first webinar will discuss a mental health response to both natural and human-created disasters.
National COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
With dozens of COVID-19 vaccine trials in development and updates changing daily, in this webinar, Dr. Carlos del Rio will discuss a few of the leading COVID-19 vaccine trials, the progress that has been made and next steps in the COVID-19 vaccine trial process. We will also explore the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine trial process.
One RNA Virus is Enough! HIV Care in the Setting of the COVID Pandemic
During this webinar, we will review how the COVID pandemic has detrimentally affected HIV care and steps that have been taken to mitigate these effects. This webinar will be presented by Edgar Overton, MD, Associate Scientist at the University Alabama Center for AIDS Research.
Operational Challenges for EMS during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has created numerous challenges for EMS including out-of-hospital management of patients and PPE use by EMS personnel. Dr. Lekshmi Kumar will discuss the operational changes that have been adapted by Grady EMS during the COVID-19 pandemic including changes to personnel and PPE for patient and personal safety, airway management, resuscitation, and cessation when responding to a cardiac arrest patient. Dr. Isakov will discuss best practices in protecting EMS healthcare personnel and strategies for overcoming PPE resource challenges and complacency in the use of PPE by EMS personnel.
Opioid Epidemic and Policy: Where have we been and where are we now?
The current opioid epidemic exists in the context of unique drivers and circumstances including pharmaceutical marketing, business decisions of illicit drug distributors, stigma, inadequate medical and behavioral health systems, social determinants of health, among other factors.
Opioid Prescription Control: When the Corrective Goes Too Far
The purpose of this program is to delve deeper into the complexity of the evolving opioid epidemic. This program will discuss how the opioid epidemic has evolved including current trends in opioid prescribing and use, early causes of the opioid epidemic, and factors that sustain the epidemic today.
Opioid Tapering Guidance and Whole Health Strategies for Pain Management
In order to address the opioid misuse crisis, public health needs examples of prevention strategies at multiple levels from opioid tapering to bio-psycho-social-spiritual approaches to manage chronic pain.
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment During COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities
The epidemic of opioid use and related harms has been exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Mitigation strategies for COVID-19 have led to disruption in the delivery of healthcare, increased social isolation, and rapid release of individuals from jails and prisons- all of which may increase the risk of overdose. Gaps in the continuum of care including access to mortality-reducing medication treatment for opioid use disorder have become more evident. In response, the federal government has made significant changes intended to provide more flexibility in how and where care is delivered for both methadone and buprenorphine treatment. Providers have welcomed these changes, and we will discuss several of these practice changes including how to utilize telemedicine and new long-acting injectable formulations to initiate and help retain patients in care.
Outbreak Update 2014-2015
This self-directed course offers an overview of prevalent international infectious disease outbreaks from 2014 to 2015.
Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases
Richard Hamburg, Interim President and CEO of Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) will present”Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases lecture, which is focused on the TFAH’s December 2015 Report of the same name.
Patient Services: Focusing on Equity and Inclusion So Everyone Wins!
This program will enhance participants understanding of culture, cultural competency, disability, and people first language. Program faculty will discuss the importance of cultural sensitivity in providing appropriate and effective patient care.
Pediatric Mental Health in the Wake of a Pandemic: Data, Strategies and Stories
The recent pandemic has created a confluence of uncertainty, social isolation, and disruptions in services and supports important to children. The nature and extent of the mental health impact on this age group depends on pre-existing vulnerabilities, contextual issues related to their COVID experiences, and the effectiveness of response efforts. In this interactive, virtual webinar, risks and protective factors will be identified, and effective strategies for promoting recovery from pandemic related distress will be explored using a developmental lens, and a social-ecological framework. Whenever possible, child and parent narratives will be used to illustrate concepts.
Pediatric Obesity: Clinical and Community Approaches to Treatment and Prevention
Pediatric obesity has continued to challenge our clinics and communities for effective and supportive approaches to improve health and treatment of disease. We will refine the clinical assessment of the severity of the disease of obesity and its complications as well as discuss treatments appropriate for the different classes of obesity. Then we will explore community efforts to promote health, prevent obesity, and support those working to lose weight.
Physicians & Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Many people are at high risk for contracting HIV infection. Those at risk could benefit from pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Many people have never heard of PrEP and are not receiving it. Many health providers have also never heard of PrEP and those who have may be uncomfortable prescribing it.
Police Violence as a Public Health Problem
In recent months, we have seen an extraordinary number of people take to the streets to protest police violence and systemic racism. This webinar will focus on police violence as a public health issue, a framework that allows us to view police violence in a broader societal perspective. We will discuss basic measures of police violence across populations and limitations of the existing data. De-funding and abolition will be discussed as possible strategies to reduce police violence.
Population Health vs Public Health and ACA’s impact
Population Health is the term du jour in healthcare. The session will explore the operational approach driving the most recent evolution in clinical care contrasted with recent trends in public health.
Population-level Risks for Preterm Birth in the U.S. and Alabama
It is well known that preterm birth rates are higher in the U.S. than in other developed countries, and preterm birth rates are higher in Alabama than in many other states in the U.S.
PPE: What Always Works, What Sometimes Works, What Never Works and Why
This webinar will discuss Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) applicable to the COVID 19 crisis. It is assumed that students are aware of standard PPE certification/requirements ( e.g. the US Department of Labor: OSHA standards for both personal and respiratory protection ). This webinar will focus on how to adapt these to the current situation, as well as crisis standards applicable when PPE may be limited/unavailable.
Practical Public Health Ethics: Making Good Decisions about Challenging Issues
This webinar introduces participants to public health ethics, describes practical skills for ethical decision making, and provides links to resources for meeting the new Public Health Accreditation Board standards for addressing ethical issues.
Predicting Human Disease Risk from Animal-borne Pathogens
Dr. Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, will explore recent approaches that combine knowledge about animal ecology with machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to make predictions about where and from which species the risks of zoonotic outbreaks are greatest. Examples will emphasize the ongoing spillback transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals, the risk of establishing new viral reservoirs of COVID-19, and predicting wild reservoirs of bat-borne filoviruses (Ebola, Marburg) and rodent-borne pathogens such as monkeypox.
Principles of Confidence Intervals
This is the first course in a two-part series including Confidence Intervals of Relative Risks and Odds Ratios.
Principles of Data Quality
The essence of this training is to enable the public health workforce to manage and interpret data effectively by understanding the core principles of data quality.
Probability Overview
Probability Overview offers a review of statistical procedures for calculating probability and making inferences from data.
Professional Growth through Mentorship: How to Make the Most of Your Student Practicum
The field of public health is booming with opportunities for students to put public health into action beyond the classroom. From the public sector to the private, and both in governmental and nongovernmental spaces – there are endless directions that students can take public health degrees. This session, featuring Montrece Ransom, JD, MPH, Director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training, is designed to introduce students to the purpose of coaching, mentorship and sponsorship and how to leverage these relations for career growth. Session discussions will focus on preparing students for their next role now while in practicums and the do’s and don’ts of being an effective mentee. By examining their skill gaps and opportunities for growth, students can shape their practicum experiences to position them to get the job they want upon graduation. Students will leave this session with strategies to build their skillsets and invest in valuable relationships to land their next role with confidence!
Professional Growth through Public Speaking: Increasing Your Presentations Skills for Career Success
This session is designed to introduce proven techniques to demonstrate confidence when speaking publicly, describe components of an effective presentation, recognize common errors in the use of A/V equipment, PowerPoint, and props, and identify ways to assess and gain control of the audience. Participants will leave this session with strategies to build their skillsets to deliver the presentations with confidence while captivating the audience!
Project GoDIS: Digital Innovations Focusing on Health Promotion and Exercise Motivation in Sweden
Although Sweden is viewed by the U.S. as having a healthy population that has unlimited access to healthcare, there are still some challenges.
Promoting Healthy Aging in Your Public Health Practice
Dr. Kathy Black introduces the scope and foundation of healthy aging imperative in public health. Upon completion of this training, you will be able to define the core frameworks and efforts to create age-friendly public health, identify actionable considerations and recognize roles and opportunities to promote healthy aging in your community.
Prostate Cancer Disparities in Florida
Join Dr. Ernie Kaninjing as he discusses prostate cancer disparities in Florida. At the University of Florida, Dr. Kaninjing conducts research examining the biological, behavioral, and environmental risk factors for prostate cancer in Black men globally.
Protect and Preserve: Priorities of Antimicrobial Stewardship
Antimicrobials are essential for modern medicine; however, they become less effective over time. In addition, adverse effects and other negative consequences of antimicrobial use are not uncommon. Presented by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control Training and Technical Assistance, this presentation will provide an overview of antimicrobial stewardship and how it can help protect patients and preserve the utility of these important medications.
Protecting the Public from Mosquito-borne Illnesses: The Zika Challenge
On March 25, 2016 Beth P. Bell, MD, MPH, Director of CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, discussed the latest research findings about the current Zika outbreak and provided an overview of how health officials and health care providers can protect the public’s health from Zika virus infection.
Psychological Impact of Hate Crime and Mass Violence
This webinar will provide an overview discussion of current definitions of mass violence incidents (MVIs) and hate crimes, impact on victims and communities, as well as current best practices in preparing for and responding to MVI events. Participants will learn about short-term and long-term approaches to assisting communities in healing after a MVI or hate crime that has impacted a broader community. In addition, participants will be provided a brief overview of the latest resources available from the National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center (NMVVRC) which was established in October of 2017 in partnership with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.