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Horizon Oil Spill: Dissecting the Post-spill Impact 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Central Time) *Nursing and
Social Work CEU's have been applied for this program The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and residual oil continues to require follow-up by public health professionals. Conflicting reports from various scientific groups and governmental agencies contribute to a lingering concern about the effects of the oil. For instance, the Food and Drug Administration and state health agencies have conducted extensive monitoring, however, many consumers are still uncertain about the safety of Gulf seafood. Fear from possible long-term effects of the oil spill and the economic impact on fishermen and the tourist industry continues to impact the Gulf Coast increasing stress and contributing to mental health issues.
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Legal Implications and Resources to Assist Community Healthcare Planning Efforts Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Central Time) *Nursing and
Social Work CEU's have been applied for this program Objectives:
This broadcast is not open for registration yet, but check here in the next couple weeks.
Other Training Opportunities: Respiratory Protection Programs & Fit Testing Workshop Wednesday, January 19 - Friday, January 21, 2011 Admiral Semmes Hotel, 251
Government Street, Mobile, AL 36602 Respiratory Protection Programs (Wednesday & Thursday) will provide working knowledge of essential elements of a respiratory protection program. Through lectures, case studies and hands-on you will receive tools needed to review, update, tailor, evaluate and manage your respiratory protection program.
Fit Testing Workshop (Friday morning) is a four hour session devoted to giving you hands-on experiences with qualitative and quantitative fit testing equipment. We will go through exercises and protocols to give you confidence to be a competent fit tester.
Whether you attend the first 2 days on respirator protection program or the session on respirator fit testing; our goal is to increase your knowledge and skills in respirator use.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course is designed for anyone with respiratory protection responsibilities - emergency responders, safety professionals, healthcare providers, industrial hygienists and occupational health nurses.
For more information regarding this workshop, the workshop agenda and information on registration and lodging please click here.
Community Management of High-Dose Radiological Events On Demand *Nursing and
Social Work CEU's are available Requirements for nuclear proliferation and an expanded supply of energy worldwide have created an unprecedented environment in human, scientific, and political evolution. Public health officials are now dealing with a more aggressive international stance on the development of and potential use for nuclear weapons. This broadcast addressed the challenges of training personnel, operational modes, and community preparedness that are critical to public health planning in the 21st Century. http://www.adph.org/ALPHTN/index.asp?id=4833
We Want to Hear From You Looking for more training on a specific topic in public health? Need additional training on a current public health hot topic? We want to help you address these needs. Please email us and let us know about your current training needs/interests/issues. We will evaluate our current trainings to see if we have something that can address your area of interest. If we don't have the resources already available, we will look into the possibility of developing those resources for you. Please send us an email at trainingnow@tulane.edu and let us see if we can be of help. Thank you. 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 Avilable: 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 1U090TP000400-01, and the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources Administration (HRSA) grant number UB6HP20201. The contents of these programs are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. |
