Legal Implications and Resources to Assist Community Healthcare Planning Efforts
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Program faculty will broadly examine the role of the government in implementing the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's community social distancing standards for mitigating pandemic influenza.  It will specifically discuss the practical limitations of enforcing social distancing and the authority and legal framework upon which enforcement may be used.  The Alabama response to H1N1 and resources to assist communities in healthcare planning efforts will also be discussed.

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12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Central Time)

*Nursing and Social Work CEU's have been applied for this program

http://adph.org/ALPHTN/Default.asp?id=4945

Other Training Opportunities:

Harrah's Casino Resort, Tunica, MS
 

Our goal for this conference is to increase the knowledge of those who will be responding during disasters to help them understand the necessity of comprehensive emergency preparedness planning and program development for all hazards with regards to readiness, response, and recovery.  This conference will not only provide real life experiences during disasters, but will also provide certificate training in conjunction with the Office of Homeland Security.

To register on-line go to http://www.mhafoundation.org  You will need a login and password in order to register for this meeting.  If you would like to change or create your password, you will need to click on reset your password and it will walk you through the log-in process.  Your login will always be your email address.  If for some reason you do not receive a return email to allow you to login, please contact your IT person and have them check your SPAM folder.  If you have any questions or problems with your password, contact Diane Clift at 601-368-3217 or email dclift@mhanet.org

This program is funded through an Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) grant to the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) in collaboration with the Mississippi Hospital Association - Health, Education & Research Foundation.

Pediatric Trauma and Disaster Course
 

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

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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

• Describe the economic, legal, organization, and political underpinnings of the US health system with regard to preparedness

• Apply principles of management, finance, accounting and strategic planning in health care organizations with regard to preparedness; and

• Apply basic planning and management skills as well as risk assessment policy development and evaluation and risk communication necessary with regard to preparedness

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.

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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.

Infectious Disease

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 20^th 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.

Facilitator Training

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.