4000.1: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Poster Session

Distance Education and Informatics Poster Session: The Academic Public Health Caucus

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: 1) Learn about the various modes for developing distance learning and informatics programs in academic institutions; 2) Recognize the necessary elements to developing a regional and/or national informatics infrastructure for public health; 3) Acknowledge model distance education initiatives and partnerships of academic institutions, specifically schools of public health and federal/state agencies.
Board 1An asynchronous web-based epidemiology course incorporating animation and graphics
C. Suzanne Lea, PhD, Ruth L. Raines-Eudy, PhD
Board 2Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcasts (T2B2): A Collaboration to Provide Continuing Education to Public Health Professionals
Jo Ann Bennison, RN, MS, Carol D. Young, PhD, Sylvia Pirani, Tina Gerardi, RN, Dwight Williams, MSW, Cheryl V. Reeves, Carin Upstill, Cristina Dyer
Board 3Training pediatric and public health professionals to use the new CDC growth charts: A national distance education initiative
Barbara Polhamus, PhD, MPH, RD, Matthew Murray, PhD, Diane Thompson, MPH, RD
Board 4Evaluating a distance education program against benchmarks from the National Education Association (NEA)
A . John Oguntomilade, BDS, MPH, Karyn Pomerantz, MPH, MLS
Board 5Implementing distance learning in a resource-limited environment to provide public health training: A Caribbean approach
Stacy M. Howard, BS, MT(ASCP), Wendy Kitson-Piggott, MSc, Valerie Wilson, MSc, MBA, Eunice Rosner, EdD
Board 6Safety Net: Student Exchange Learning & Supervision on The World Wide Web - Withdrawn
Abraham N. Ndiwane, EdD, RN
Board 6Strategies and approaches for using distance learning Internet-based software in public health courses
Judith F. McLaughlin, PhD, Charles J. Hardy, PhD, Nigel R. Davies, PhD, Kent W. Guion, MD
Sponsor:Academic Public Health Caucus
Cosponsors:Maternal and Child Health; Association of Schools of Public Health
CE Credits:Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA