Overview:

This is a series of three 60-minute recordings of live webinars.

The series aims to equip public health practitioners, community leaders, and health educators to implement evidence-based approaches (EBAs) relevant to community practice. Case examples include real-world EBAs from work with our partners in nutrition, physical activity, tobacco control, and cancer screening. The content, timeframe, and case examples can be adapted to specific audience needs and interests.

Part 1: How to Find Health Initiatives that Work

Part 2: Balancing the Evidence with Your Community Needs 

Part 3: Implementing and Evaluating with Quality and Fidelity 

The following series of three 60 minute webinar sessions (Jan-Feb 2015) aim to equip public health practitioners, community leaders, and health educators to implement evidence-based approaches (EBAs) relevant to community practice. Sessions will be spaced 2-3 weeks apart. Case examples include real-world EBAs from work with our partners in nutrition, physical activity, tobacco control, and cancer screening. The content, timeframe, and case examples can be adapted to specific audience needs and interests.

Strategic criteria for selecting EBAs that fit a community will be presented, including audience characteristics, fit with mission, leadership support, and organizational readiness. We will also define implementation fidelity, steps in program adaptation, and what likely can be changed in an EBA while maintaining fidelity.

Overview:

This is a 90-minute recording of a live webinar.

The purpose of this webinar session is to provide public health professionals and their partners with an initial working knowledge of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) capability update initiative for emergency preparedness and response and how it applies in practice. This webinar may be of particular interest to those working in preparedness and response from multiple sectors and roles including state and local governmental public health, academia, health care, communications, responders, and community agencies. The capabilities are national standards that are cross-cutting among public health priority topics to support the full preparedness cycle. The capabilities provide a planning framework, help define roles, offer tools for stakeholder collaboration, suggest consistent terminology, and consider evaluation planning.

Overview:

This is a 90-minute recording of a live webinar.

This webinar is presented in partnership with Georgia Society for Public Health Education (GASOPHE) and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD).

In this webinar, participants will learn how online simulations with virtual humans are being utilized for workforce development and public education to curb chronic disease and improve behavioral health. Learn how these simulations are being used to scale effective strategies for improving and assessing the competencies of the healthcare workforce, engaging other professionals such as educators in prevention and early intervention, and moving the public beyond awareness to action.

The webinar will include (1) an overview of the benefits and research supporting the use of virtual humans, (2) demos of work development and public education about mental health, substance use, and chronic disease, and (3) several use cases of county and statewide implementations including research results.

Overview:

This is a 90-minute recording of a webinar.

This webinar presents evidence that religion should be considered among the social determinants of health, based on epidemiological research. Plausible mechanisms at the individual level are the lower smoking rates and greater social ties of those with religious participation. At the community level, faith-based organizations engage in partnerships with public health agencies as a source of social capital to promote health and prevent disease, particularly in hard-to-reach populations.

Overview:

This is a 90-minute recording of a live lecture.

The Georgia Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing Meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach. Central to the program is a research-based marketing campaign that graphically communicates the risks of Meth use. The Meth Project has been repeatedly cited as a powerful private-sector response to a devastating social problem and was recognized by the White House as one of the nation’s most effective prevention programs. The Georgia Meth Project activities increase awareness of the critical nature of the Meth problem, influencing and escalating public dialogue to find solutions. Coordinating closely with local, state, and federal agencies, the Georgia Meth Project organizes a broad range of community outreach programs that mobilize communities across Georgia to assist in Meth awareness and prevention activities.

This lecture will focus on the current state of methamphetamine use in Georgia, the Meth Project model, strategies and partners, and insights that might be incorporated into contemporary public health practice, training and education.

Overview:

This is a 80-minute recording of a live lecture.

This is the fifth presentation in our 5-part series on Georgia’s health priorities. This presentation will focus on asthma in Georgia.

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 and efforts to reduce that burden as well as opportunities for state programs to expand access to comprehensive asthma control services through health care reform. Dr. Jean O’Connor, Director, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Section with the Georgia Department of Health, will focus on the burden of asthma in Georgia and what the Georgia Asthma Control program has done to date to address that burden.

The Georgia Asthma Control program (GACP) is part of a national initiative launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health (Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch). GACP aims to reduce the burden of asthma and improve the health and quality of life among Georgians affected by asthma through effective control of the disease.

Overview:

These are recordings of a series of live lectures.

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health will provider a State of the State Address on the Georgia’s Health Priorities. The lecture provides an overview of the Georgia DPH health priorities for the state of Georgia including specific health problems and target outcomes. Dr. Fitzgerald will also discuss strategies in place to address these health problem and the work still needing to be done to improve the health and vitality of Georgia’s residents.

Overview:

This is a 90-minute recording of a live lecture.

Each year, billions of U.S. tax dollars are spent on research and hundreds of billions are spent on service delivery programs. However, relatively little is spent on, or known about, how best to ensure that the lessons learned from research inform and improve the quality of health and human services and the availability and utilization of evidence-based approaches. In the context of increased interest and investment in comparative effectiveness research that will help to determine the optimal and/or most cost-effective interventions to be used in clinical and community healthcare practice, it is essential that both clinical and public health practitioners are equipped with empirically-supported strategies to integrate scientific knowledge and effective interventions into everyday use. The National Institutes of Health have recognized that closing the gap between research discovery and program delivery is both a complex challenge and an absolute necessity if we are to ensure that all populations benefit from the Nation’s investments in new scientific discoveries. This lecture will focus on approaches to moving research into public health practice and policy. With an understanding of the importance of implementation science, challenges for improving efficient and meaningful translation will be discussed and dissemination and implementation frameworks will be highlighted along with examples and useful tools for both researchers and public health practitioners.

Overview:

This is a 90-minute recording of a live lecture.

Dr. Tim McAfee, Director of CDC’s Office of Smoking and Health presents the national perspective on tobacco control, including on the recently released Surgeon General’s Report and newly revised evidence-based best practices. Dr. Jean O’Connor, Director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) discusses progress on Georgia’s continuing and emerging strategies to prevent tobacco use and help people in Georgia to quit, including data on the efficacy of and opportunities around expansion of Georgia’s Tobacco Quitline; progress toward tobacco-free schools; and, tools and resources for tobacco-free colleges and universities.