2006 Summer Public Health Institute - Offered through the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, provides professionals a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a chosen field of study for a single course or for the entire three weeks of the Institute.

Past Public Health Institute Video Archives

• Veterinary Alchemists, by Lonnie King, 2002
• Public Health Policy: Professional Obligations in the Age of Counter-Terrorism, by Asha George, 2002
• Smallpox, Then and now, by Donald A Henderson, 2003
• Emergencies R Us: What's the Big Deal, by Kristine Gebbie, 2005
• Pandemic Influenza: Harbinger of Things to Come, by Michael Osterholm, 2005

Other Archived Videos

• Worker Competencies for Emergency Preparedness Presentation by Dr. Peter Raynor at Wisconsin's 3rd Annual Partners' Conference on Public Health and Hospital Emergency Preparedness on September 12, 2005

Basic Math Skills Refresher - A Tutorial

Emergency Preparedness and Response Fundamentals for Environmental Health Professionals

Environmental Health and Nursing Series

• Environmental Health and Nursing: Introduction
• Environmental Health and Nursing: Food Safety
• Environmental Health and Nursing: Housing
• Environmental Health and Nursing: Land
• Environmental Health and Nursing: Pest Control
• Environmental Health and Nursing: Water Supply and Waste Water
• Environmental Health and Nursing: Workplace
• Environmental Health and Nursing: Air Supply and Pollution

Genomics: The Connection to Public Health Practice

Incident Management Systems

Maternal Nutrition

The overall goal of this continuing education program is the improvement of maternal and infant health through the delivery of risk-appropriate high-quality nutrition services. This course is designed for dietitians, nutritionists, certified nurse midwives, registered nurses and nurse practitioners, physicians and public health professionals who serve preconceptual, pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women.

MS Excel for PubH 6414 and Excel Tutorial

MS Excel is required for students who take PubH 6414 via distance. You can order it from the University of Minnesota bookstore at a student rate. Be sure you have the Data Analysis plug-in.

An Excel tutorial can be found on http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel. This is a helpful resource to refresh your Excel skills if you havenít used Excel in awhile. (This is just one of many Excel tutorials available on the internet.)

North Dakota Department of Health Webcasts

Principles and Applications of Surveillance

Public Health Emergency Training (PHET)

The University of Minnesota Public Health Emergency Training (UM PHET) is a series of awareness-level online educational modules covering various topics related to emergency preparedness. Modules currently available are Special Populations and Contact Investigation; Disease Surveillance; Isolation and Quarantine; and Disaster Mental Health. Additional modules to be released in fall 2005 are Personal Protective Equipment; and Decontamination. These modules are designed to contribute to the development of a subset of the Bioterrorism/Emergency Readiness Competencies created by Columbia University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

http://www.umncphp.umn.edu/phet/

School of Public Health Roundtable Series Videos

The School of Public Health offers a roundtable series each academic year focused on timely public health themes. Roundtables showcase academic research, application of research to public health practice, and dialogue with the practice community.

• Food Safety, Protection, and Defense. What Best Serves the Public Good? and Who Determines Acceptable Risk? March 2005
• Food Fight: A Dialogue on Food Industry Litigation and the Obesity Epidemic, September 2004
• Cultural Barriers to Preventive Health Care, June 2004
• A Global Commitment to Tobacco Use Reduction, 2004
• The International AIDS Crisis, 2004
• Human Rights, Civil Liberties, and Public Health in the Age of Bioterrorism, 2003