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Online Course Spotlight
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Six - Analyze and Disseminate Findings

This session discusses the analysis and use of program evaluation findings. This session provides strategies and steps to analyze quantitative and qualitative data and to disseminate findings. Students will get to develop a dissemination matrix for the Child Wellness Program. **NOTE: This is the final session of a six-course series.  Learn More


Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Five - Data Collection

This session discusses the issues to consider when making decisions about data collection. It will survey the most common data collection methods used in the evaluation of MCH programs. Students will get to outline a data collection plan for the Child Wellness Program. **NOTE: This session is part five of a six-course series.  Learn More


Emergency Preparedness: The Role of the Pharmacist

This course will define what a public health emergency is and familiarize pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with the basic components of public health emergency preparedness and the role pharmacists play in disaster events. This course will cover basic policies and directives related to public health emergencies and review the federal and state resources available, with a specific look at the organizations involved in responding to a public health event in Mississippi. Finally, an overview of the Category A biological agents and their treatment algorithms will be addressed.  Learn More


Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) Emergency Support Function 8 Training Course
 
The Emergency Support Function 8 (ESF-8) Training course consists of five modules focusing on the goals and objectives of ESF 8 and other annexes; disaster behavioral health response, including Psychological First Aid; disaster operations compensation; Emergency Operations Centers; Incident Command Structure; Medical Special Needs Shelters; and volunteer management. In addition, this course provides emergency preparedness and response strategies, resources, and management tools for evacuees and/or their caregivers.  Learn More


HIV 101 for Community Health Workers

The purpose of this course is to expose community workers to basic knowledge about HIV's history, prevalence, biology, diagnosis, and prevention. Presenters in this program explain and illustrate statistics related to HIV, how HIV enters and replicates itself, how HIV is diagnosed and treated, and ways to prevent the spread of HIV. Information focuses on universal methods of diagnosis and transmission as well as concerns unique to health care providers.  Learn More  **This course is located on the ALPHTC LMS and requires a separate login username and password. 
 
Upcoming Conferences

Alabama Public Health Association Annual Conference
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM 
Birmingham, AL 
April 9 - 11, 2014 

This year's conference is a joint endeavor with AlPHA, UAB, Southern Health Association (SHA), and Alabama Environmental Health Association (AEHA).  For registration, please visit alphassoc.org.  Select the heading "Conferences"; select "Registration" and complete the requested fields.  You will receive an email confirmation once you have completed your registration.  The registration fee for this year's conference is as follows:

Regular $160
Full Time Student  $80
Retired Employees  $80 
 
Direct Bill of the registration fee is available for the employees of the Department of Public Health.  Please make sure to enter your Funding Source Code and Cost Center on the registration screen.  UAB students will register through UAB. Retired employees and individuals from private/public organizations can pay their registration fee at the registration table the day of the conference or you can mail a check to the following address:

AlPHA
P.O. Box 990
Montgomery, Al. 36101    
 

Louisiana Public Health Association Annual Conference 
Baton Rouge, LA
April 24-25, 2014

For program agenda, please click here
For more information, please visit:  http://www.lpha.org/2014_conference.htm


2nd Annual East Central Mississippi Trauma Care Region Trauma & Emergency Medicine Symposium  
Preconference:  May 6 & 7, 2014
Symposium:  May 8 & 9, 2014

Location: 
Meridian Community College, Meridian, MS 
 
Target Audience:  
All disciplines involved in the management of the trauma patient including surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, mid-level providers, nurses, pre-hospital personnel, and other interested healthcare providers.

For more information, please click here  


NACCHO Preparedness Summit   April 1-4, 2014   Atlanta, GA

Stronger Together: Aligning Public Health and Healthcare Preparedness Capabilities to Protect Our Communities
http://preparednesssummit.org/


Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN)  
2014 Provider Course Dates: July 18-19-2014, October 31-November 1, 2014 
Sponsored by Central MS Trauma Region

http://www.traumanurses.org/atcn-courses.html
On Demand Webcast
The Affordable Care Act: Mandates, Exchanges, Medicaid...and All That

Original Broadcast Date:  Tuesday, October 22, 2013 
 
The Affordable Care Act called for the establishment of a Health Insurance Exchange in every state.  Many states have taken the federal-default option.  Nonetheless, all of the Exchanges, now called Insurance Marketplaces, began open enrollment on October 1st of this year.  Coverage begins on January 1, 2014.  This program describes what an exchange is supposed to do and what roles the states have in the default options.  It describes the functions the exchanges will be performing, the nature of the coverage offered, the size of the subsidies available to individuals, the taxes and fees that arise as a result of the exchanges, and why insurance premiums in some states are increasing while they are decreasing in others.  As part of this program, the interplay of the exchanges and Medicaid are considered and the implications of states not expanding their Medicaid programs are discussed.

For more information or to view the program, click here

Produced by the Alabama Public Health Training Center in collaboration with the Maternal and Child Health Leadership Education Training Programs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of South Florida, Tulane University, and the Alabama Department of Public Health

Conference Videos
Maternal & Child Health Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, March 26, 2013 ARCHIVED Conference Video

Speaker: Stephen Dantzig, PsyD
School Psychologist, Professional Photographer, and Author of Get Up, Your Bus is Here: Living My Life with Cerebral Palsy
Other Training Opportunities

Need Help Studying for your NEHA Exam? New to Environmental Health? Need Some Refresher Courses? 

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH ONLINE COURSES (EPHOC)

 

The Environmental Public Health Online Courses (EPHOC) training program has been developed specifically for you - the most important frontline environmental health professional.  This program will not only give you the knowledge and application of the basic subjects needed in your environmental health practice, but also expose you to the broader field, as well as introduce some of the newest concepts that will shape the future of how environmental health will be protecting our communities and our world.  


The fifteen EPHOC courses are taught by a group of environmental public health subject matter experts from across the country.  The instructor group is a mix of academic professors and environmental health practitioners in several different agency settings.  Course content includes the various roles and responsibilities of environmental public health staff in the over 45 hours of online training provided.  The courses can be taken individually on demand.  They have been divided into multiple 40 to 60 minute modules for each course.  Successful completion of the course content and the post test will allow online students to print out a course certificate.  NEHA members can submit the certificate for pre-approved continuing education hour credits toward credential maintenance.

 

 

EPHOC training programs are designed for: 

 

* New hire environmental public health professional and in-service refresher training


* Individuals preparing for a state or national credential exam


* Environmental health and related-discipline students


* Environmental public health professionals wanting to improve their technical knowledge or receive continuing education hours

 

For more information, go to http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/eLearn/EPHOC.htm 

 

To register for this program, CLICK HERE

 

Looking for CEUs?

 

The South Central Public Health Partnership has many courses available that offer both Nursing and Social Work CEUs.  For a list of courses currently offering continuing education, click here.

 

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. 

 

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 offered by the South Central Public Health Partnership are FREE, sponsored by grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources Administration.

 

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. These projects are also supported under a cooperative agreement from HRSA grant number 1UB6HP22824-01-00 for the Alabama Public Health Training Center.  The contents of these programs are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC, DHHS, or HRSA.