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.
November 27, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Judith LaPan, MS, MBA, discusses how her rural Montana health department adopted an emergency response framework to better support emotional health in their community.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of a community-based approach to improving emotional wellness and addressing behavioral health in areas with limited resources.
- Understand the process and tools used to create a community-driven plan to improve emotional wellness.
- Identify solutions being implemented to improve emotional wellness and community resiliency.
September 25, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Sarah Coefield, MS, discusses how the Missoula City-County Health Department supported public health during prolonged smoke events of the 2017 summer wildfire season.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the threats wildfire smoke poses to individuals and public health systems.
- Identify clean air intervention strategies for communities prone to wildfires and smoke events.
- Identify potential community and funding partners to address health threats associated with wildfires.
August 28, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Kirsten Aird, MPH, shares the public health approach to engaging older populations and community partners in addressing health issues.
Learning Objectives
- Review demographic and health trends underpinning the need for public health agencies to engage more with older populations.
- Review the Trust for America’s Health’s Public Health Framework to Support the Improvement of Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults.
- Identify strategic objectives for a public health organization that would benefit from new partners in aging services.
- Align Public Health 3.0 (or Public Health Modernization) priorities with health across the lifespan initiatives.
July 24, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Public Health Director Dawn Emerick, EdD, shares how her division embraced the Chief Health Strategist role to better work with new partners and demonstrate their agency’s value to the community.
Learning Objectives
- Identify three necessary change management tactics for organizational restructuring.
- List two examples of successful activities for implementing a strategic plan.
- List at least two lessons or recommendations for integrating change management principles and making change stick.
June 27, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Maria Levis, CEO of Impactivo, reviews how her team deployed creative communication strategies to address public health issues in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Learning Objectives
- List three major public health challenges in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
- Identify two communication strategies for messaging to hard-to-reach communities in a hurricane disaster response.
- Consider ways to build durable communication systems that can withstand severe power outages.
April 25, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, planner and architect Erin Christensen Ishizaki explains how her work uses public health research and design as interventions to reduce chronic disease.
Learning Objectives
- List two motivating factors for real estate and planning decision-makers to intentionally consider health.
- List three ways planners and designers can use public health research methods in their work beyond a health impact assessment.
- Consider three cross-sector strategies for public health practitioners and urban planners to collectively leverage their work and influence decisions.
February 20, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Jennifer Baker, Adolescent Health Project Coordinator for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, shares tested strategies for getting and keeping youth engaged in prevention efforts.
Learning Objectives
- List two ways the Alaska Adolescent Health Project encourages youth to participate in health promotion campaigns.
- Describe how local and national data can be used in support of positive youth development and participation in community health projects.
- Identify two resources for assessing organizational readiness to better include youth in prevention efforts.
January 30, 2018. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Luci Longoria, MPH, shares how Oregon public health helped raise the tobacco purchasing age from 18 to 21.
Learning Objectives
- Review the public health significance of raising the minimum legal sales age of tobacco products and inhalant delivery systems to 21 years old
- Understand how policy changes support a larger tobacco control strategy
- Describe two ways public health can navigate tobacco control policies in their communities using lessons from Oregon's approach
November 28, 2017. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Karyn Brownson, MSW, explores the latest research linking brain and social development with injury prevention.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the basics of how the brain develops from birth to age 24.
- Think about injury data through a brain development lens.
- List two ways in which understanding connections between brain development and injury can improve and inform prevention practices.
October 24, 2017. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Public Health Director Dawn Emerick. EdD. describes how a local health department in Oregon used change management principles to restructure in advance of the state’s modernization efforts.
Learning Objectives
- Describe public health modernization efforts in Oregon.
- List two change management theories.
- Identify three change management tactics imperative to organizational restructuring.
September 26, 2017. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Policy Administrator Stefan Johansson discusses using data to drive performance in Wyoming state government.
Learning Objectives
- Understand why performance management has historically been challenging for public health organizations.
- List three tips for approaching large data sets from a performance management perspective.
- List two strategies for developing meaningful priorities to drive appropriate data analysis plans.
August 22, 2017. In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, prevention specialists discuss how they are using art and media projects to address marijuana-related health outcomes in creative ways.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the Washington State Department of Health’s role in marijuana prevention and harm reduction efforts.
- List two ways communication strategies can improve health equity regarding marijuana use among some youth populations.
- List two reasons why engaging key audiences and community partners in developing and implementing health communication products is important.
- List two examples where community-based organizations used culturally-relevant messages and audience engagement throughout campaign development.
May 23, 2017. In the May session of Hot Topics in Practice, members of the Seattle and King County Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force discuss implementing “supervised consumption sites” to address the health and social harms of substances.
Learning Objectives
- List the eight recommendations made by the Seattle and King County Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force.
- Describe the evidence supporting supervised consumption sites as an effective harm reduction and public health intervention.
- Discuss common community concerns about supervised consumption sites and how to address them.
March 27, 2017. In this one-hour webinar, Public Health Nurse Deborah Giedosh, EdD, shares how her team developed and delivered public health curriculum to support incarcerated dads in Alaska.
Learning Objectives
- What biases might you or your organization have in dealing with incarcerated populations?
- What are potential challenges for public health nurses bringing educational outreach to correctional facilities?
- Consider how a similar prison-based health education program could work in your community.
