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Need to learn project planning skills for your job? Want to brush up on best practices for this? Then you might be interested in this free web-based course!

Your project planning can be thought of as a series of specific steps that will help your projects run smoothly and effectively. You don’t have to be a project management expert to successfully plan a project. Your plan can be designed to provide a solid foundation for your project and can help you make and communicate important decisions.

This course should take about 1.5 hours to complete. It includes interactive questions and quizzes. The instructor, Marguerite Langlois, is with the Professional and Organizational Development Group at the University of Washington.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

* Describe the basic steps needed for successful project planning.
* Create a clear project definition, including specific goals.
* Design an effective and practical project timeline.
* Identify roles and plan communication with people involved in a project.
* Plan for needed resources and budget.
* Identify possible problems with a project and ways you can deal with them.
* Plan to use tracking, effective problem-solving, and ongoing communication during the implementation phase to bring a project to a successful conclusion.

Intended Audience

– Public health professionals interested in learning or reviewing the fundamentals of project planning
– Public health students and new employees
– Professionals in other fields with an interest in effective project planning

This training is offered by the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, the outreach arm of the University of Washington School of Public Health.

You’ll find more information including how to register on the NWCPHP web site.

Does your work intersect with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities? Have you ever wanted to see cutting edge training tools for this vulnerable population? If so, then you’ll want to attend this free COEH webinar!

Date: Wednesday, December 6
Time: 10:30 to 11:30am

The employment rate of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities lags significantly behind that of the general adult population. When employed, these workers are some of the most vulnerable in the US. They are commonly employed in low-wage, high hazard industries, and in occupations resulting in higher injury rates than their counterparts without disabilities.

Health and safety training is essential for helping workers develop the necessary health and safety skills that all workers need. However, there are almost no examples of training being provided to workers with intellectual disabilities in a manner they can understand.

In this webinar, Robin Dewey, MPH will demonstrate activities from the Staying Safe at Work curriculum which was developed by the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley and has recently been adopted and updated as a national curriculum by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

The curriculum and PowerPoint slides are downloadable for free from the NIOSH website.

Robin Dewey is an occupational safety and health educator with more than 30 years of experience developing and evaluating educational programs designed to address the workplace health and safety needs of a wide variety of audiences, including some of the world’s most vulnerable workers. She is seen as one of the few national experts in the promotion of workplace health and safety education for workers with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Continuing education credits may be available for industrial hygienists and nurses.

For more information or to register, please go to COEH Continuing Education web page.

Are you interested in organizational and systemic strategies to address racism? Would you like to hear about the work that others are doing on this issue? Then this free webinar from the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) may be one that you’d like to attend.

This webinar is the second of a two-part series on the impact of racism on health and approaches to addressing racism and improving the health of Indigenous and racialized peoples. Speakers here will explore approaches to addressing racism that occurs at the organizational and systemic levels.

Specifically, the webinar will:
• share examples of anti-racist organizational transformation;
• discuss anti-racist policy approaches; and
• highlight the importance measuring systemic racism in public health data systems.

When: Tuesday, December 5
Time: 10:00 – 11:30AM PST
Speakers: * Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, MHSc, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH
* Dr. Onye Nnorom, Associate Program Director, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto & TAIBU Health Centre

For more information on this webinar or to register for it, please go to the NCCDH website.

The webinar will expand on material from the newest installment to the NCCDH’s series: Let’s Talk: Racism and Health Equity.

Want to learn about the factors in the urban built and social environments that promote child and youth mental health? Would you like to see how public health can work to support these factors through upstream approaches? This webinar, also by NCCDH, will help you learn more about this subject.

When: Mon, December 11
Time: 1:00 – 2:30pm

The content will include research that explores:
– how positive mental health in children and youth is impacted by characteristics of built and social environments;
– the intersection between built and social environments and how they impact child and youth mental health;
– equity-related influences within built and social environments on child and youth mental health; and
– the role of public health in promoting population mental health through built environment initiatives.

More information including how to register is available on the NCCDH website.

The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:

1. An American sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back. By Elisabeth Rosenthal. New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
Call number: RA395.A3 R655 2017
See the table of contents, preview the first pages, and reaad reviews at amazon.com.

2. Public health nutrition, 2nd ed. Edited on behalf of The Nutrition Society by Judith Buttriss, Ailsa Welch, John Kearney, and Susan Lanham-New. Chichester, W. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
Call number: RA645.N87 P83 2018
See the table of contents and preview the first pages at amazon.com.

3. Principles of public health practice, 4th ed. Edited by Paul Erwin and Ross Brownson. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2017.
Call number: RA445 .P67 2016
View the table of contents or read a preview at amazon.com.

and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

4. Exploring a Business Case for High-Value Continuing Professional Development: Proceedings of a Workshop. 2017.

5. Facilitating Health Communication with Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Populations Through the Use of Health Literacy and Community Engagement Strategies: Proceedings of a Workshop. 2017.

6. Using Technology to Advance Global Health: Proceedings of a Workshop. 2017.

Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.

You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).

If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.

CDPH in the News

INTERACTIVE MAP: What does the opioid epidemic look like in California?
from Bakersfield.com

Just days before President Donald J. Trump declared the opioid epidemic a National Public Health Emergency, California’s Department of Public Health released a slew of data related to opioid overdose death, prescriptions and incidence. Roughly 1,925 people died in California of opioid overdose, including 51 in Kern County, which had a death rate of 5.7 per 100,000 people, topping the state average of 4.6.
So where are opioid deaths occurring? We’ve used the data to narrow it down by zip code. Take a look at what your neighborhood looks like.

State water board scraps restrictions on toxic metal
from San Diego Union Tribune

California must go back to the drawing board and reassess limits for how much hexavalent chromium — a toxic compound made famous in the film “Erin Brokovich” — can be present in drinking water. The state water board last month eliminated a rule restricting how much of the heavy metal is permitted in drinking water supplies after Sacramento Superior Court Judge Christopher Krueger ruled that state regulators didn’t consider whether the restrictions were economically feasible.
Krueger agreed with arguments by the California Manufacturers and Technology Association and the Solano County Taxpayers Association that the California Department of Public Health didn’t properly analyze the economic impacts of the rule, which the plaintiffs argued would be “massively expensive.” The State Water Resources Control Board must now develop a new standard for the chemical, with more rigorous analysis of its costs.

Mendocino County’s climate change-related health impacts
from Ukiah Daily Journal

Mendocino County is a large rural county, stretching along the Pacific Coast, across fault lines and spanning miles inland to valleys full of vineyards and marijuana cultivation. It’s home to less than 90,000 people, redwood forests, wild boars and salmon. Despite its unique landscape, climate change projections show it’s set to experience changes just like any other county. Putting together public data from local and state agencies, the California Department of Public Health published a report that’s designed to help counties develop plans for the unique health impacts expected as a result of climate change.
Expecting to see increases of average January temperatures by 2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, and five degrees by 2100 in Mendocino County, among other changes, public health officials have compiled projected risks and health impacts. Their goal is to give counties the most up-to-date information so that they may make more informed public health decisions.

California’s got the fever—Valley Fever, that is
from Safety.BLR.com

What’s native to dry southwest US soils, causes a flu-like illness that can turn deadly, and can get you cited by Cal/OSHA for letting workers be exposed? It’s Valley Fever—a disease caused by inhaling fungal spores—and California is reporting an uptick in both cases of Valley Fever, and Cal/OSHA citations arising from it. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has taken the unusual step of releasing provisional data—data showing suspect, probable, and confirmed cases of Valley Fever infection—because they are seeing a striking increase in the number of new Valley Fever cases reported in California through October 31, 2017.

Hospital will stop seeing patients amid dispute, forcing them to travel for care
from Fresno Bee

Tulare Regional Medical Center and clinics will not be open for patients beginning midnight Sunday, leaving the city without a hospital and health workers potentially without jobs. The district issued a notice Thursday afternoon stating it is voluntarily suspending its license with the state of California to operate the 112-bed hospital, clinics and other outpatient facilities. Niki Cunningham, a Fresno lawyer retained by the district board, said Thursday that she had been told by the California Department of Public Health that no new patients were being admitted.

Hepatitis A reaches beyond homeless; vaccine dwindling
from Food Safety News

An ongoing hepatitis A outbreak among more than 1,200 people in at least five states, with more than 800 hospitalizations and 40 deaths, has local and state officials struggling to meet vaccination needs. Many of the victims of the outbreak — described by the California Department of Public Health as the largest person-to-person hepatitis A outbreak in America since a vaccine for the virus became available in the mid-1990s — are homeless people or substance abusers, or both. However, a third of the 644 confirmed ill people in California and a fourth of the 495 confirmed ill people in Southeast Michigan are neither homeless nor substance abusers. Other states reporting confirmed outbreak cases are Utah, Arizona and Colorado.