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The New SCPERLC: We are proud to announce a recent change to our Partnership. For the past 10 years through the ASPH's cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we were funded as the South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness (SCCPHP) as part of the Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) program. This program has come to an end, however, all of our training courses and webcasts that were developed under the SCCPHP will continue to be offered. The CDC has recently funded Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLC), which were established to enhance public health training and workforce. The PERLC mission is to improve the nation's public health preparedness and response capabilities for emergencies, whether deliberate, accidental or natural. The PERLC network will collaborate, develop and deliver core competency-based training and education that respond to the public health preparedness and response needs of state, local, territorial and tribal public health authorities. We were awarded one of fourteen grants for this program. The name of the new center in the Partnership is the South Central Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center (SCPERLC). Our intitiative is to support the mission of the national PERLC program. In this effort, we will continue to develop and offer new courses, satellite broadcasts, conferences, workshops and exercises. As new training opportunities become available we will notify you through this monthly e-announcement. Also, please feel free to visit our Partnership website for a complete lisiting of our activities. We hope that you continue to enjoy and benefit from our new and existing trainings as we start this next chapter in our Partnership. A New LMS: The South Central Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center has transitioned to a new Learning Management System (LMS). We have done our best to make this a smooth transition and to create the new LMS with a very similar look and feel to the old system. No action is required by you. Your log-in information is still the same and we have transferred over all of your transcript information as well as your current enrollments. One thing you will notice is that the enrollment date will start over from the day we switched your account over to the new system. All this means is that you actually have more time to complete the course. You will have seven weeks from the new enrollment date. All our courses are still available, self-paced and free of charge. We welcome any feedback as you navigate and use our new system. Please feel free to email us at trdirect@tulane.edu with your feedback or questions. Again, we have tried to make this transition smooth and ask for your patience in advance if we find any issues. *NOTE: TRAIN users, ADPH users, NYSDOH users, and LAVA users have not been transitioned to the new system yet. At this time you will still be automatically directed to our old site. We expect to transition these accounts to the new system soon. Upcoming Satellite Broadcasts:
Gulf Oil Spill: Update on Public Health Response (title not yet confirmed) 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Central Time) Registration is not yet opened for this broadcast. Please check the site soon to see if registration is available. http://www.adph.org/ALPHTN/index.asp?id=1884
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Management of High Dose Radiological Events 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Central Time) Registration is not yet opened for this broadcast. Please check the site soon to see if registration is available. http://www.adph.org/ALPHTN/index.asp?id=1884 Upcoming Conference:
EMS Culture
of Excellence Conference 2010 The Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center *For more information please click here The first annual EMS Culture of Excellence Conference is being presented by The Center for Emergency Preparedness, Alabama Emergency Medical Services for Children, and The Office of EMS and Trauma. There will be three tracks offered in each breakout session: EMS, EP, and Pediatrics as well as national speakers presenting during the opening and general sessions. There will be a vendor hall where you will find everything from training opportunities to equipment.
Other Training Opportunities: Master of Public Health (MPH) in Disaster Management Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Environmental Health Sciences A new program in Disaster Management is being offered by Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Environmental Health Sciences. This program is offered both on campus and by distance learning through the Center for Applied Environmental Public Health (CAEPH). Students may obtain either a graduate certificate or the full MPH in disaster management. The Tulane CAEPH distance learning programs are geared to mid career professionals. CAEPH uses state-of-the-art synchronous distance learning technologies to enhance learning and networking. For more information on the MPH program, please visit: http://dl.caeph.tulane.edu or send an email to DLinfo@tulane.edu or call 1-800-862-2122. Master of Public Health (MPH) in Public Health Preparedness Management and Policy University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health, Department of Health Care Organization & Policy This specialized degree covers all hazards preparedness topics including, event typologies, response organization, leadership and management, hazard and risk assessment policy development and evaluation and risk communication. Public Health Preparedness Management and Policy Learning Objectives
For more information on the MPH degree, please visit: https://www.soph.uab.edu/node/1213 Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Public Health Management University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health, Department of Health Care Organization & Policy The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program in Public Health Management prepares current and future public health leaders and research faculty to apply critical thinking and rigorous research methods to complex problems facing public health practitioners and policy makers. The program focuses on public health management, organization, and leadership issues and allows students to specialize in preparedness management and policy or any of the other public health disciplines: biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, or health behavior. For more information on the DrPH degree, please visit: https://www.soph.uab.edu/node/1214 Preparedness Minute Videos Preparedness Minutes are video clips describing actions to take in emergency situations, whether they are at work or at home. Some of the videos will be reminders, others will present new information. Ultimately these videos will help you be prepared for an emergency or disaster. Please visit the link below to watch any of our preparedness minute videos. Other Online Courses Available: The Management of Epidemic Disease Population growth, societal aging, urbanization, rapid transportation, economic interdependence, and emerging infectious disease have expanded community vulnerability far beyond what could have been imagined a few generations ago. But, an expansion of medical technology has provided an array of tools and techniques for therapeutics and public health disease management never before imagined. The instructor will examine disease as a social event in an evolving global community and discuss why applying new systems and science is critical for tomorrow’s public health professional.
This course is a three module sequence covering a sampling of those areas of infectious disease relevant to public health professionals in the United States. The modules begin by discussing areas considered by the CDC to be the most important public health successes of the 20th century. Control of certain major infectious diseases is a significant aspect of these successes. The modules then discuss the major gram positive and gram negative bacterial illnesses, selected viral, protozoal, prior, rickettsial and vaccine preventable disease. A major portion of the course is devoted to various clinical aspects of sexually transmitted disease and pandemic influenza. While these modules only represent a small sample of infectious disease, it is hoped that the student will gain an appreciation of the vast scope of this subject and its importance to modern public health.
Succession Planning for Public Health Agencies In this course, the instructors will discuss the public health workforce shortage as well as succession planning, a key element in addressing that shortage.
In this course, the instructor will introduce methods and strategies used in facilitating meetings, workshops, tabletop exercises, and other events.
Burn Evaluation and Care for Emergency Responders According to United States Fire Administration data, in 2007 fire killed more Americans than all natural disasters combined. Approximately 10,000 people in the United States die every year because of infections that complicate burns. While burn injuries are common in the United States, specialized burn centers often lack the capability to care for large numbers of burn victims. For this reason, improved initial evaluation, triage and management of burn injuries can significantly impact victim outcomes. These tasks are most commonly performed by emergency responders and first receivers (paramedics, nurses and physicians). This course will raise the overall burn care expertise among participants and prepare these individuals to respond to public health threats and burn-related emergencies.
Alternative Standards of Care in Disaster Emergency events and disasters require the affected population to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances including an often abruptly limited scope of public health services. Optimization of outcome requires all available resources to be preserved, coordinated and focused so as to optimize community response in dealing with the normal ongoing needs of the stricken and spared populations, the special disaster-related needs of the population at risk and the special needs encountered by populations with special vulnerability. Alternative standards of care will allow a community adapting to the hierarchy of needs of the population at risk to streamline and simplify the support process during arduous circumstances so as to maximally preserve life. The development of rational "fall-back" positions preserves a rational process with accepted outcomes. This permits effective prevention to drive resiliency into a preparation for emergency action which defines personnel, logistics and communications requirements enabling the most effective consequence management and leading to early, effective and coordinated recovery. Guiding the integration of alternative standards into the public health system as a component of preparedness involves articulating the best amalgam of current technology and available resources capable of a robust and reliable outcome. Prevention based management, broad based community planning driving integration of interests and resources across the broad range of interests and potentially responding agencies, is a critical step in advancing beyond the existing operational inadequacies, stovepiping and ineffective coordination of recovery based management.
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Participants have 7 weeks to complete each course. A certificate of completion is awarded to those who score 70% or better on the knowledge-based assessment. All courses are FREE. Sponsored by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This email was sent to you because you have participated in a training offered by the South Central Public Health Partnership. These projects are supported under a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant number 1U90TP000400-01, and the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources Administration (HRSA) grant number D20HP00012-07. The contents of this program are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. |
