Culturally Responsive Public Health Practice

Evaluation - determining significance, worth or condition by careful appraisal and study - is a challenge and can be done in a variety of ways. This series of courses presents different evaluation approaches that are credible, practical and useful, and include strategies for design.

• Designing and Implementing New Internet-Based Technologies for Public Health
• Introduction to GIS
• Introduction to Social Marketing
• Navigating an MPH Project
• Qualitative Research Methods: Discovering the Value of "Voice" in Words Stories and Photographs

Culturally Responsive Public Health Practice

This concentration area has been developed to expand the skills of working public health professionals in the delivery of culturally responsive services. It is part of a major effort to encourage participation by members of underserved and underrepresented communities in public health education opportunities.

• Born a Girl: Global Women's Health
• Communicating Effectively in Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Approach
• Community Organizing and Advocacy: Building Political Power and Moving People to Action
• Culturally Responsive Communication
• Environmental Justice
• Issues and Trends in Public Health Genomics
• Qualitative Research Methods: Discovering the Value of Voice in Words, Stories and Photographs
• Reintegrating Physical Activity and Healthy Eating into Organizational Routine: Opportunities for Intervening
• War and Public Health

Environmental Health Sciences and Global Health

The courses in environmental health sciences and global health consider the environment and its effects on human health. Major issues such as water and air quality, food safety and the effects of industrialization; relationships between health, environment, politics, culture and economics are considered. Practical application of theory is a major component of the courses and participants will not only identify major factors influencing environmental and global health but will consider ways to develop appropriate policies to alleviate public health problems. Courses include content based on research and best practices across public health disciplines and opportunities for participants to apply concepts and principles in practice settings through hands-on activities, case studies, group discussion and/or field trips.

• Born a Girl: Global Women's Health
• Culturally Responsive Communication
• Ecosystem Health, Sustainability and Environmental Change
• Environmental Justice
• Food Safety Systems in a Global Food Market
• Globalization and Health
• Global Food System Leadership
• Global Warming and Water Sustainability
• Introduction to GIS
• Issues and Trends in Public Health Genomics
• One Health: Addressing the Opportunities and Challenges at the Convergence of Human, Animal and Environmental Health
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Infection Control in Countries with Limited Resources
• Topics in Infectious Disease: International Initiatives in Neglected Zoonotic Disease Control
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Public Health Aspects of the HIV Pandemic
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Vector Field Ecology
• War and Public Health

Food Protection

These timely, practical courses are designed for public- and private-sector professionals who plan to or currently work in food regulatory agencies, food production, food processing, agricultural industries or public health organizations.

• Ecosystem Health, Sustainability and Environmental Change
• Food Safety: Risk Assessment
• Food Safety: Risk Management
• Food Safety Systems in a Global Food Market
• Food System Defense: Vulnerabilities in the Food System
• Global Food Systems Leadership
• Global Food Systems: Pork
• Global Food Systems: Produce
• Principles of Risk Communication
• Rapid Response to Food Emergencies: Coding and Traceback
• Science Behind Food Safety in Food Manufacturing
• Surveillance of Foodborne Pathogens in Humans
• Surveillance of Zoonotic Pathogens in Animals

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

The epidemiology of infectious diseases worldwide is growing increasingly complex with the many emerging social, political and demographic changes in population as well as dynamic changes in animal and vector populations and the environment.

• Ecosystem Health, Sustainability and Environmental Change
• Surveillance of Zoonotic Pathogens in Animals
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Infection Control in Countries with Limited Resources
• Topics in Infectious Disease: International Initiatives in Neglected Zoonotic Disease Control
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Pandemic Influenza Readiness - Past Lessons, New Challenges and Promising Practices
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Public Health Aspects of the HIV Pandemic
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Vector Ecology Field Study

Public Health Leadership and Management

As professionals assume management roles and need to enhance their leadership skills, these practical courses are designed to help them manage programs, staff and careers with creativity, awareness and passion.

• Communicating Effectively in Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill Building Approach
• Community Organizing and Advocacy: Building Political Power and Moving People to Action
• Culturally Responsive Communication
• Delivering Quality and Leading Innovation: The Art and Science for Working with Groups and Teams
• Effective Interprofessional Teamwork in Healthcare: Methods and Techniques
• Generative Leadership
• Global Food Safety Systems Leadership
• Organizational Culture and Change
• Public Health Accreditation Review Course
• Relationship-Based Management: Creating Healthy Work Environments in Times of Stress and Uncertainty

Public Health Preparedness, Response and Recovery

This concentration area includes courses designed to improve the capacity of frontline public health workers and other health and human service professionals responding to public health threats. Course content is built on competencies identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as essential to effective emergency and bioterrorism readiness for public health personnel.

• Food System Defense: Vulnerabilities in the Food System
• Incident Management Systems: The Public Health Role
• Planning for Urgent Threats
• Principles of Risk Communication
• Public Health Law
• Topics in Infectious Disease: Pandemic Influenza Readiness - Past Lessons, New Challenges and Promising Practices

Women and Child Health and Nutrition

Courses in this concentration area strengthen and expand the abilities of health and human service professionals to identify and promote social and environmental conditions contributing to the health of families, mothers and children, and to develop public health programs that include health promotion and disease prevention as well as primary care services.

• Born a Girl: Global Women's Health
• Communicating Effectively in Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill Building Approach
• Community Organizing and Advocacy: Building Political Power and Moving People to Action
• Culturally Responsive Communication
• Delivering Quality and Leading Innovation: The Art and Science of Working with Groups and Teams
• Effective Interprofessional Teamwork Healthcare: Methods and Techniques
• Environmental Justice
• Generative Leadership
• Reintegrating Physical Activity and Healthy Eating into Organizational Routine: Opportunities for Intervening
• Introduction to Social Marketing
• Motivational Interviewing Strategies to Effect Behavioral Change
• Organizational Culture and Change
• Qualitative Research Methods: Discovering the Value of "Voice" in Words Stories and Photographs
• Relationship-Based Management: Creating Healthy Work Environments in Times of Stress and Uncertainty
• Women's Mental Health