Region IV Public Health Training Center Catalog
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Public Health 101
This Introduction to Public Health curriculum is composed of six sections: History of Public Health, Principles of Public Health, Public Health Tools and Services, the Public Health Workforce and Health Professionals, Public Health Institutions, and Health Care Systems and Ethics of Public Health.
Public Health and Nutrition
This course provides an introduction to public health nutrition, discusses the methods of promoting public health nutrition, delineates the dangers and complications of obesity, and provides resources for public health nutrition education.
Public Health Care Management
Dr. Zachary Pruitt covers the role of the manager in public health organizations. Three prominent perspectives on the essential functions of the manager in all settings will be discussed, including Systems Thinking, Five Basic Functions of the Manager, and Manager as Leader. This session will also describe how health care management is different than management in other sectors, including the health care manager’s role on the interprofessional team. Finally, this session will review the skills necessary for managers to lead public health organizations.
Public Health Data and You
This training provides a practical understanding of statistical approaches to data summary, presentation, and analysis that can be used by public health professionals at all levels.
Public Health Data: A Training for Tier 1 Workforce
The manual is designed to fill the gap by providing a course that can be used to train the region’s entry-level or nonsupervisory workforce on different areas of data for decision making, namely, identifying appropriate sources of data and information, collecting valid data, interpreting and using data to address public health issues. The manual has different modules that are intended to be used for each area; while modules can also be omitted or combined for use as needed.
Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities: National Standards for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Public Health
The purpose of this webinar session is to provide public health professionals with an initial working knowledge of the CDC capability update initiative for emergency preparedness.
Public Health Evidence into Action
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.
Public Health in a Time of Change: Charting the Course for Health Policy, Population Health, and Evidence-Based Prevention
This webinar will focus on the efforts to strengthen and adapt public health to address the current health needs of the population at a moment of change and uncertainty.
Public Health Law 101 and Introduction to Legal Epidemiology
Public health law has important implications for protecting the public’s health. However, the need to protect the public’s health must be balanced with the rights of affected individuals.
Public Health Leadership Institute
The Region IV Public Health Training Center has partnered with the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia to offer the Region IV Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI).
Public Health Over Politics: Impact on the Public Health Workforce
With the pressure of pandemic politics, we are seeing an impact on the public health workforce including burnout and an exodus of public health workers. During the worst pandemic in over a century, we also saw the devastating impact of politics on public health. This webinar will explore how politics made the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic more difficult, and the long-term impact on the public health workforce.
Public Perceptions and Preferences for Antibiotics: Considerations for Health Communication
This webinar is presented by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control Training and Technical Assistance. In this webinar, Dr. Alistair Thorpe will discuss health communication efforts to reduce antibiotic overuse and scope for improving their impact through research on public perceptions and preferences about antibiotics. This webinar is co-sponsored by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control and the Region IV Public Health Training Center.
Purpose Built Communities and the Role of Public Health
During this webinar, we will discuss the causes and impact of poverty as well as the role of public health in building cross-sectoral partnerships to improve social determinants of health. We will discuss the Purpose Built Community approach to building healthier communities and more equitable neighborhoods and the impact COVID-19 is having on the community development strategies.
Quality and Process Improvement
This course is a 3 module design that will help professionals learn what CQI is and introduce tools and techniques to improve organizational productivity and process outcomes.
Racial Disparities at Every Stage of COVID-19: Infections, Hospitalizations, Death Rates… and Now the Vaccine
During this webinar we will discuss how the existing racial disparities and health inequities in our country have amplified the effects of COVID-19. From infection rates, hospitalizations, and deaths, communities of color have been impacted by COVID-19 at higher rates. Now, after more than a year since the world woke to a spreading viral pandemic, an effective COVID-19 vaccine offers protection and a promise of normal life. But a final-step challenge persists – getting the vaccine into the arms of people who need it most. Please join us for a presentation and conversation with Taison Bell, MD and moderated by Sam Fulwood, PhD.
Recognizing and Responding to Suspected Human Trafficking
This webinar is co-sponsored by the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory.
In this presentation we’ll discuss the nature and dynamics of sex and labor trafficking, and the health impact on adults and children. We’ll review possible indicators of trafficking that may be present under varied conditions, and discuss screening tools that may be helpful in identifying persons at risk of exploitation. We’ll talk about the trauma-informed, rights-based approach to interacting with trafficked persons, and review resources available to those in need. Finally, we’ll discuss how the COVID pandemic is expected to impact the dynamics of human trafficking, and exacerbate existing risk factors for exploitation.
Refugee Health: Public Health Promotion and Disease Prevention through Culturally Competent Care
This webinar presentation explores refugee resettlement, health surveillance methods that help identify health conditions among newly arriving refugees, and the impact of refugee health from multiple perspectives. During 2016, approximately 80,000 refugees and other entrants were resettled into virtually every state in the US as part of the federal refugee resettlement program. Refugees bring with them a variety of health conditions and health needs that are important to address in order for them to achieve the self-sufficiency required for success resettlement. As refugees represent multiple cultures and speak many different languages, integration into local society requires that communities be competent to address the cultural and communication needs of their new community members.
Reimagining Innovation
Dr. Ness discusses her statement,”The joy of producing surprising improvements in health and prosperity has become outweighed by societal caution. That caution embodies the fear that science might not produce the immediate pay-offs that we expect from our investments.
Reinvesting in the Health and Wellness of America
Dr. Cooke is a physician in a rural, southern Indiana town of Austin, Indiana, and has first-hand knowledge of how the resources and opportunities available to communities impact the health, prosperity, and wellbeing of the people living there. Discrimination and deindustrialization have left pockets of pockets of concentrated poverty, toxic stress, and inequity and created health disadvantages for many. Unfortunately, our public health system has not risen to the challenge. In his book, Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People, Dr. Cooke discusses these factors and how they came into play in his fight against the opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America.
In this webinar and based on his experiences in Austin, Dr. Cooke will discuss the need to reinvest in the health and wellness of America and to build an effective public health system that benefits everyone in the community.
Relative Risks and Odds Ratios
Relative Risks and Odds Ratios explains the difference between the two measures while giving instruction for evaluating them.
Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health
This webinar presents evidence that religion should be considered among the social determinants of health, based on epidemiological research.
Reopening Schools Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, schools across the country are deciding how to begin the 2020-21 school year, whether for in-person instruction, virtual learning, or a hybrid approach. In this webinar, health and education experts from the Center for American Progress will discuss the current state of school reopenings, considerations for local officials making decisions about reopening, and related health and education research.
Resources Available from the Million Hearts Initiative
At the end of this module, the learner will be familiar with resources available to clinicians from the Million Hearts website.
Responding to the 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak
In this webinar, Dr. Nicolas Van Wagoner, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, will provide a historical overview of monkeypox before 2022 and how the outbreak has reemerged globally, as well as in the United States. This webinar will outline the current state of monkeypox, and the public health response including testing, prevention, and vaccination, as well as provide guidance on communications to prevent misinformation and stigma.
Saving Ourselves: HIV/AIDS and Its Impact on Black Communities
This webinar will focus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Black community and discuss how stigma, disease prevention & awareness, and access to care & treatment play a pivotal role in elimination of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the national, state, and local level.
Scaling Up PrEP Care to End the HIV Epidemic
This webinar will discuss what PrEP is, indicators for its use and how health departments can support its expansion and effective use.
Scientific Reporting During a Pandemic: A Conversation with Katherine Wu
During the COVID-19 pandemic, media outlets have been tasked with translating complex and evolving scientific data about the nature and risks of SARS-CoV-2 to the public. Journalists in these roles have had to stay up to date with rapidly evolving information, wade through misinformation, scrutinize data, and amplify voices from underrepresented and marginalized communities at unprecedented speed to keep the public informed. In this webinar, Dr. Katherine Wu, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us for a conversation about her experience, challenges, and lessons learned while reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Self Care In Healthcare
In this recorded webinar, presenters discuss various types of stress and the physiological and mental health impacts that result from prolonged stress and burnout on the healthcare worker in particular. Furthermore, the presentation provides strategies and solutions to reduce stress and mitigate the associated health risks including increasing their sense of purpose, utilizing proper goal setting techniques and cultivating a culture of wellbeing within the workplace and beyond. This module contains a recorded presentation and evaluation.
Social Marketing In Action: User-Centered Approach to Addressing Community Needs
Dr. Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha explains the creation process of a persona, its role within the social marketing process, how it applies to health communication materials, and how to recommend changes to communication materials to target the persona.
State of the State Address on Georgia’s Health Priorities
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.
Stemming the Rising Tide of STDs through Partnerships and Comprehensive Strategies
This presentation will cover the rising rates of STDs in the United States, drivers of these rates and innovative approaches to mitigate these trends. The role of STDs in Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) and the impact of COVID-19 on STD trends will also be discussed.
Structures and Functions of Public Health
This course is designed to be an introduction to public health definitions and structures for those who are new to the field.
Sub-Recipients and New Hires Title VI Training
This training is designed to ensure all new hires, sub-recipients, contractors, and service beneficiaries are aware of the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the minimum requirements to be in compliance with its rules, laws, and regulations.
Successful Communication with Diverse Populations
Successful communication is part of being professionally successful. This course delineates some methods and tips on successfully communicating with diverse populations.
Systemic Racism and Health Disparities: The Impact of COVID-19 on Latinx Populations
During the COVID-19 pandemic, long-standing systemic health and social inequities have been exposed and certain populations are at an increased risk of the impacts of COVID-19. During this webinar we will discuss how systemic racism has historically prevented Latinx communities from adequate healthcare and other economic opportunities. We will discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on the Latinx community and how we must look at the systemic issue of race and health disparities as we move forward.
TDH Commissioners Roundtable
This presentation shares the unique perspectives of Tennessee Commissioners’ of Health who served the State for over 30 years.
The ABC’s of Viral Hepatitis: Update for Public Health Professionals
This webinar will provide a snapshot of viral hepatitis epidemiology and an overview of the 2021-2025 US National Strategic Plan/Roadmap for Elimination which is highly relevant to the public health community. We will include a discussion about current surveillance data that reveals trends, challenges and opportunities, prevention through vaccination and approaches to treatment.
The Business of Public Health
Looking at public health from a business perspective is vital, particularly in this uncertain economic time.
The Cost of Health Literacy
Although health literacy has gained much-needed attention over the past decade, an alarming number of American adults continue to report a poor understanding of healthcare information.
The Diabetes Epidemic in Alabama: An Overview
In the past several decades diagnosed cases of diabetes have increased at alarming rates, costing billions of dollars in medical expenditures and lost work and wages for people known to have the disease.
The Georgia Meth Project
The Georgia Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing Meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach.
The Most Used Medical Device in the World
Most people understand that technology is the future of healthcare, but few have actual experience with what this looks like and how you can use it to facilitate your health and wellness.
The Mystery and Epidemiology of Long COVID
Two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, there is emerging evidence that in some patients, its symptoms may linger for months or even years after the initial infection. While prevalence estimates vary widely, such ‘long COVID’ symptoms likely persist in more than 10% of all COVID-19 cases. This webinar will summarize the current scientific debate about long COVID– is it an autoimmune disease, a consequence of comorbidities, or something else? We will draw on a recent study of 100,000+ COVID-19 cases to understand who is susceptible to long COVID, how long the symptoms can last, and whether vaccination can improve long COVID outcomes.
The Past, Present, and Future of Opiates
This program will provide an introductory overview of opiate use and abuse from Dr. Leonard Rappa.
The Role of Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Addressing Mental Health
Dr. Fran Close discusses applying cultural competence and cultural humility to public health practice, understanding how mental health and the stigma impacts communities, and understanding how mental health conditions adversely impact maternal health.
The Search for a National Child Health Policy: Progress, Opportunities & Challenges
This is the Ann Dial McMillan Endowed Lectureship In Family & Child Health featuring Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Professor of Health Law & Policy and Founding Chair, Dept. of Health Policy, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.
The Sordid Truth About Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which individuals perform commercial sex through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. This type of modern-day slavery isn’t just relegated to brothels and back alleys of larger cities. It’s happening in all 50 states.
The Stigma of Addiction
This webinar will explore the role of stigma and how it interacts with the disease of addiction. Addiction is a chronic medical condition characterized by relapses and remissions that is often misunderstood, unrecognized and seldom appropriately treated. We shall examine stigma from three perspectives.
Thriving in an Online Work Environment
Are you now working remotely? Are you finding it difficult to manage your stress and productivity? Are you frustrated by inefficient virtual meetings? Are you responsible for transitioning in-person trainings to the online environment? If you are grappling with these issues and others, you are not alone.
The Midwestern Public Health Training Center, the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center, and the Region IV Public Health Training Center have collaborated to create this course, Thriving in an Online Work Environment. Full of useful tips, practices, and resources for staying productive and connected in an online environment, this course can be viewed in its entirety or by individual topics.
Tobacco in Georgia: A Comprehensive Approach to Prevention and Cessation
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.
Towards Cultural Competence: A Conversation for Health Care Managers and Leaders
Towards Cultural Competence: A Conversation for Health Care Managers and Leaders.
Training the Public Health Workforce in Health Equity: Learning from Europe
The United States and European countries are often compared as the highest-ranking regions in socio-economic conditions, political structures, healthcare systems, and economic resilience. Both are high resource regions that are world renown for medical innovation. However, the U.S. consistently ranks low in health equity compared to other high resource countries, many of which are in Europe. This training discusses best practices that public health workers could adopt stateside from European public health initiatives.
Trauma Informed Public Health Organizations
Dr. Abraham Salinas, Director of the Harrell Center, explains what trauma is, and why we need trauma-informed public health. 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 Center partner of the Region IV Public Health Training Center.
Using Strategic Messaging and Framing to Motivate Others to Support Public Health
This course focuses on how to use strategic messaging tools simultaneously with framing tools to motivate cross-sector partners and other non-public health experts to support public health interventions, programs, and policies. The strategic messaging tools that are explored include unique value proposition, narrative structure, one-minute messages, and the public health story map.
Using Virtual Human Technology to Improve Workforce Development and Public Health Education
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.
Vaccine Hesitancy among African American Communities
Vaccine refusal or delay has substantial public health implications. During this webinar, we will discuss vaccine hesitancy among African American communities. We will discuss the history of vaccine hesitancy and how we can build trust in the African American community to increase vaccine uptake. At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: a) define vaccine hesitancy, b) describe racial disparities in vaccine coverage, c) describe approaches to overcome vaccine hesitancy.
Vaccine Preventable Disease Outbreaks and Challenges in Vaccination
This webinar will describe recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, explore trends in national vaccination rates, and discuss challenges in vaccination.
Vaccines: They’ve Got To Be Used To Work-Lessons from the 2015 Measles Outbreak
Program faculty discussed how the measles outbreak may have improved the public’s perception of the benefits of vaccination programs, leading to improved vaccination rates in at-risk communities.
Validity in Health Sciences
Validity in Health Sciences reviews definitions of validity and the various ways the validity of an instrument can be evaluated.
Various Rates Used in Clinical Research
This is the second course in a two part series including Relative Risks and Odds Ratios. Various Rates Used in Clinical Research gives an overview of rates used to describe clinical research observations.
Wapishana to Wise
Stan Brock, Founder of Remote Area Medical, discusses advocating for the health care needs of the world’s under-served populations.
What You Should Know About the 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak
From early May 2022 to June 13, 2022 (the date of this podcast recording), over 1,300 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported across 31 countries that normally don’t see any cases of monkeypox. In today’s podcast, we welcome back Dr. Rachael Lee, Associate Professor in the UAB Division of Infectious Diseases and UAB Health Epidemiologist to talk to us about Monkeypox – what it is and if we should be worried?
What’s working? Population-based Strategies for Obesity Prevention through Improving Healthy Eating and Active Living Opportunities for Georgians
The epidemic of obesity is profound in our state and across the nation. Obesity is one of the Georgia Department of Public Health’s top health priorities.
Whitefoord Health Equity Webinar Series
This is a three-part webinar series on health equity co-sponsored with Whitefoord, Inc.
July 7, 2020: Health Equity in Young Children
July 23, 2020: Food Insecurity
Working Together for the Future: Tapping into Federal Programs and Services in Your Community
This webinar highlights federal programs and services, with emphasis on how health departments can leverage available resources that may improve health outcomes within communities they serve. Health departments, committed to maintaining and improving the health of the communities they serve, may be unaware of the vast array of federal programs and services that they can tap into to help them achieve their mission.