Tag: professional development

Presented by the Center for Public Health Practice of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, these inexpensive skills-based workshops are designed to introduce public health professionals and students to specialized competencies needed in the public health workplace.

The workshops are grouped into three modules: Communication, Program Analytics: Data and Financial, and Leadership. Workshops will be help Tuesdays from 4pm – 6pm from January 27 – April 28.

February workshops:
2/10 Multicultural Communication in the Workplace
2/17 Managing Conflict
2/24 Health Care Panel: ACA Impact on Population Health

Attendees will earn a certificate of participation.

You’ll find a listing of the dates of the other workshops and learn how to register here.

Do you work with girls or young women? Want to learn best practices, see the latest research, and hear some of the top professionals speak about working with them? Then the Girls Matter! series might be of interest to you.

This six-part webinar series, held in 2014, provides research, best practices, and critical thinking on the topics that professionals working with girls and young women must know. Each session addresses a key area of what matters to adolescent girls today?including challenges, opportunities, and strategies for supporting girls. 1.5 Continuing Education Hours (CEHs) ae available for you while updating your knowledge on adolescent girls. National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) and National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) CEHs are available through the ATTC Network Coordinating Office.

Each session may be taken individually as an online class or viewed as a webinar. The classes are free and require an online registration. CEHs are available for a nominal fee.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.

Are you interested in learning more about issues related to women’s health and related human rights factors? Then you might want to consider the free online course International Women’s Health & Human Rights. It will begin on January 22 and end on March 27.

Offered through Stanford OpenEdX, it will provide an overview of women’s health and human rights, beginning in infancy and childhood, then moving through adolescence, reproductive years and aging. It will focus on critical issues that may mean life or death to a woman, including discrimination; poverty; unequal access to education, food, paid work and health care; and various forms of violence.

Participants who successfully complete the required elements of the course will receive a personalized Statement of Accomplishment, however online courses do not include university credit.

Want to learn how to review existing communication products from a variety of viewpoints, to identify the highest quality materials, and to develop “creative platforms” to direct writers, graphics artists, and others involved in creative production? If you answered yes, then you might want to check out the free webinar Message Review Tool on November 17 from 7:30am – 8:30am PST.

Designed for health promoters, the information presented will enhance participant skills, build a common understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current materials, and expose gaps in existing resources.

Learning objectives

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

-Utilize the Message Review Tool;
-Present information on the effectiveness, or lack of effectiveness, of past and current examples of health communication campaigns;
-Select appropriate communication channels and vehicles to reach health communication objectives;
-Identify message strategies and positioning consistent with best practices of health communication and health promotion.

You’ll find more information including how to register,on the Public Health Ontario web site for this event.

Looking for a class in public health preparedness and response? Then you might want to check out the Annual Catalog of TRAIN Courses with Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competencies and/or Public Health Preparedness Capabilities. This unique catalog identifies training available through TRAIN that has courses related to these categories selected for you. This list was developed by Public Health Foundation in coordination with the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the CDC.

The Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) Core Competency Model, supported by the CDC?s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, outlines core competencies that mid-level public health workers are expected to demonstrate to assure readiness, and provides a national framework for competency-based curricula and training as well as individual performance benchmarks to measure public health preparedness and response.

The Public Health Preparedness (PHEP) Capabilities are a set of 15 public health preparedness capabilities, developed by CDC and other federal agencies, that assist state, local, and territorial health departments in developing annual and long-term preparedness plans to organize and guide their preparedness strategies and investments toward priority areas within individual jurisdictions.

Want to learn how to become a more effective writer? Then this free eight-week course from Stanford Online might be for you! Topics covered will include principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, issues in publication, and peer review.

The first four weeks will go over general principles of effective writing, with the last four weeks examining issues specific to scientific writing, including authorship, peer review, the format of an original manuscript, and communicating science for lay audiences.

The instructor, Kristin Sainani (née Cobb) is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University and also a health and science writer. Students who score at least 60 percent will pass the course and receive a Statement of Accomplishment. Students who score at least 90 percent will receive a Statement of Accomplishment with distinction.

Don’t delay! The class begins September 2. See Stanford Online for more details and to register.

Know a little about data analysis but want to learn more about spacial data analysis? Then this free intermediate-level class from ESRI might be of interest to you.

Good for motivated people. Some experience with GIS software is helpful but not required. CDPH has a site license for ArcGIS. The class will meet for 6 weeks and require two to three hours of study per week. Going Places will give students a conceptual framework that will help them understand the nature and practice of spatial analysis.

This course will familiarize students with the following concepts:
* understanding and comparing places
* determining how places are related
* finding the best locations and paths
* detecting and quantifying patterns
* making predictions

Classes will consist of activities in ArcGIS Online, short video lectures, quizzes, case studies, and discussion. The class will begin in September. If interested, please visit the course information page and sign up for email notification when registration opens.

Interested in expanding your knowledge of how water impacts global climate patterns? Then you might be interested in an upcoming online class called Introduction to Water and Climate. Created by Delft University of Technology located in the Netherlands, this class explores the global water cycle, water and climate change, interventions, water resource management, and more.

This edX class begins on August 26 and will run for 8 weeks with about 8 hours a week of work anticipated. It’s free to audit or you can pay a minimal fee ($50) to pursue a Verified Certificate of Achievement.

edX, a new not-for-profit enterprise founded by MIT and Harvard University, offers free online learning to students around the world. UC Berkeley, Harvard, and MIT are among the institutions offering online classes here. An online listing of all the classes offered by edX is available here.

The CDC created the Quick-Learn Design Toolkit to help public health instructional designers and web developers create their own quick-learn lessons. As you may remember from our April newsletter, quick-learn activities are a form of e-leaning written so that users only need 20 minutes or less to complete them.

Quick-Learn lessons work best for providing information, just-in-time training, or for reinforcing skills. Each lesson Quick-Learn lesson should have only one or two simple learning objectives. A series of Quick-Learn lessons could be created for content with more than two objectives. These lessons are designed to be accessed through desktop computers and mobile devices.

The Quick-Learn Design Toolkit contains a lesson design guide, a storyboard template, and web development tips. You’ll find help here with needs assessment, content organization, learning assessment, storyboard development, and formative evaluation, as well as software resources, browser support, and accessibility concerns, plus much more.

Looking for additional public health learning opportunities and resources? Then you might be interested in CDC TRAIN! CDC TRAIN is a learning resource for public health professionals including including public health practitioners, healthcare professionals, laboratorians, epidemiologists, veterinarians, first responders, educators, and students. TRAIN is a free service of the Public Health Foundation.

TRAIN’s extensive listing of courses can be searched by format, credit type, accreditation, audience, and keyword, among others. Courses are offered in chronic disease, cultural competence, emergency management, evaluation, maternal/child health, and many more subjects.