This UPitt Supercourse developed by Virginia M. Dato, MD, MPH, a public health physician from the Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, provides an historical overview of how public health progressed to where it is now. Numerous links to additional information are provided. *Course will take longer than 25 minutes if user chooses to pursue additional web links that are provided throughout course.
Contamination of surface and ground water resources by pharmaceuticals and other organics has been emerging as a major public health issue over the last decade. This case-study follows the background, investigation and management of a hypothetical site in the United States, to demonstrate common features of organic/pharmaceutical contamination. New topics introduced involve innovations in investigation and exposure assessment, and management protocols.
At the end of this course, you as a learner will be able to
1. Define sources and migration paths of common contaminants in water resources
2. Discuss human health and ecological impacts
3. Examine innovations in exposure assessment
4. Illustrate management concepts
5. Identify available resources
This course is part of a series of programs intended for public health administrators, and nurse administrators, who are relatively new in their positions (3 years or less), and who seek to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed. The course discusses the roles and issues that occur in the management of a local public health agency, how to balance public health functions within a multi-focused agency, the identification of training needs within an agency and how to address these needs, & environmental health enforcement issues that may occur when contracting with local boards of health.
There are four video clips in this course: Roles of a Public Health Administrator; Staff Training; Dealing with Burnout; and Other Aspects of Managing a Public Health Agency.
This is the introductory course in the New Public Health Administrators Series.
This course is part of a series of programs intended for public health administrators, and nurse administrators, who are relatively new in their positions (3 years or less), and who seek to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to succeed. The course discusses locating grant awarding organizations in Iowa, describing steps involved in preparing a grant application, describing the resources needed in preparing a grant application, discussing the reporting obligations once a grant is awarded, discussing the implications of grant awards to agency budgets, and identifying the additional resources for grant writers. There are four video clips in this course: What is a Grant?; Defining Grant Terms; Steps to Proposal Preparation; and Tips on Grant Writing.
Many states issue advisories about eating sport fish from their waters. Obtaining and interpreting data for the advisories is usually a collaborative effort between the state health and environmental agencies. States differ when they issue an advisory and how the advisories are presenented and distributed to the public. Dr. Kim will discuss the background and considerations that New York State uses when developing and issuing advisories for contaminants in fish.
This course discusses: 1) the state of minority and multicultural health; 2) the social context of health and health disparities; and 3) ways to address health disparities.
Local, comprehensive fatality management plans are needed in order to deal with the large number of decedents that could occur as a result of a pandemic. For those who will deal with those bodies, this program will offer information for planning consideration.
The Edison Township Department of Health and Human Services through its Municipal Alliance program has worked on gang prevention programming for over 10 years in cooperation with the Edison Police Department. This seminar is a case study that tracks the development of Edison's gang prevention programs within the community. The presenter will take the participants from initial discussions on low level gang activity, to documenting the progression of more aggressive gang activity. Participants will be given thorough survey data and the steps taken culminating in program development, expansion and entrenchment in the community. They will also be given information regarding the barriers faced in development and issues of implementation. They will also be presented with advantages of coalition-based programming housed within a public health department with cooperative implementation by a police department.
