August 31, 2020. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, reviews the investments needed to build a modern public health system.
Learning Objectives
- Describe historical trends associated with disinvestment in core public health services.
- Identify the risks of disinvesting in public health in light of current crises like COVID-19.
- Consider policy actions to reverse trends of disinvestment and improve the nation’s public health infrastructure.
May 27, 2020. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, explores how mentoring is an important tool for developing leaders and building more responsive public health organizations.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the need for formal mentorship in the current era of public health practice.
- Discuss the importance of mentorship and how to put it into practice.
- Preview a new online resource for strengthening mentorship in public health agencies of all sizes.
March 31, 2020. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Claire Tollefsen, Digital Media Specialist for the Oregon Health Authority, shares strategies for addressing trending topics on social media.
Learning Objectives
- Consider why social media is an important organizational tool for communicating directly with key audiences.
- List two ways to analyze and build an audience on a social media platform.
- Review tools that help organizations hone their social media persona and establish their reputation as a trusted source for public health information.
February 27, 2020. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, two attorneys explore the legal and ethical issues related to public health data use.
Learning Objectives
- List two ways the law can be an effective tool to support public health data sharing.
- Consider how ethics are used to identify and resolve dilemmas about what should be done in morally complicated situations.
- Compare and contrast frameworks for bioethics and public health ethics.
- Review which ethical framework is more appropriate for public health data sharing.
January 28, 2020. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, two leaders from Idaho review why local public health agencies should be involved in behavioral health issues and the role they can play in rural suicide prevention.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of community health assessments and improvement plans in bringing awareness to suicide as a local problem.
- Identify three stressors in rural communities that contribute to their increased suicide rates.
- Identify three community interventions that focus on reducing the suicide rate at the local level.
- Consider the successful elements needed for building a local suicide prevention coalition.
December 18, 2019. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, reviews vaping-related products, health impacts, and prevention efforts underway in Washington State.
Learning Objectives
- Review recent data and trends on the youth vaping epidemic in Washington State.
- Review the latest details of the national investigation into Vaping-Associated Lung Injury.
- Consider executive and legislative actions, both nationally and in Washington State, for limiting youth and young adult access to vapor products
November 21, 2019. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, reviews strategies and inspiration for using data to tell compelling public health stories.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to identify the most important, relevant, and interesting content to share with an audience.
- Identify appropriate graphic and other visualization techniques given common data constraints.
- Understand how to tailor data messaging and visualizations to an appropriate audience.
- Consider how important design principles are integrated into the creation of presentations and data visualizations to tell a “data story”
October 29, 2019. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, discusses a unique community coalition in Klamath County, Oregon, that is connecting economic improvements to health.
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the intersections between health and economic development.
- Learn about interventions to community health on various levels of the socio-ecological model.
- Review how a collaborative approach to community health improvements in a rural community can operate.
July 23, 2019. In the July session of Hot Topics in Practice, Meredith Li-Vollmer, PhD, explores how comics can be used for creative public health messaging.
Learning Objectives
- List key organizational considerations when developing comics for public information.
- Describe why comics are effective for conveying health information to audiences.
- List examples of how comics have been used for health promotion, and risk communication.
May 21, 2019. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, reviews strategies for working with small data sets to better understand health issues, with examples from urban Indian communities.
Learning Objectives
- Identify health issues and initiatives important to urban Indian communities.
- Explore the impacts of data misclassification on research, policy, and public health practice.
- List strategies for data analysis and reporting to correct for data misclassification.
April 30, 2019. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, reviews how to address homelessness with new messages and interventions.
Learning Objectives
- List the upstream determinants of homelessness.
- Describe evidence-based approaches to preventing homelessness (primary, secondary, and tertiary).
- Describe mechanisms to fund housing initiatives in major cities on the West Coast.
March 26, 2019. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, reviews how a large health department in Oregon reduced their clinical services to focus more on primary prevention.
Learning Objectives
- Identify planning tools and strategies for considering a change from direct clinical care to population-based services.
- Describe communication strategies for informing internal and external audiences about large organizational changes and collecting input from them about the transitions.
- Identify evaluation measures to assess population health outcomes and organizational processes when changing the delivery of key public health services.
February 26, 2019. This one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, explores how public health professionals can take a lead in preventing opioid misuse. View part one of this two-part series on systems thinking and public health.
Learning Objectives
- Explore how to apply systems thinking methods to analyze the opioid crisis.
- Describe public health’s role in addressing substance misuse and addiction at the community versus the client or clinical level.
- Review how to apply a comprehensive, cross-sector approach to the opioid crisis at the local and state levels.
January 29, 2019. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Mary Kay Chess explores how systems thinking can be used to understand and resolve difficult public health problems.
Learning Objectives
- Engage in systems thinking to identify key stakeholders for public health problems.
- Consider and articulate interdependencies and interconnections in complex systems.
- Explore how to identify adaptive, upstream interventions within complex systems.
December 20, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, David Farrer, MS, PhD, reviews how his colleagues addressed community concerns after high levels of arsenic and cadmium were detected in a Portland neighborhood.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the relationship between environmental public health agencies and the work of state and local environmental agencies.
- Recognize good sources of and common caveats associated with environmental sampling data for evaluating human health risks.
- Identify credible sources of evidence-based information on the health effects of environmental chemical contaminants.
- Identify key strategies for communicating about an unseen environmental health concern.
