2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Trainning a Collaborative Public Health Workforce

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will cover initiatives and programs focused on trainning the public health workforce. We will present on a proposal for a model for collaborative continuing professional development program from a public health workforce perspective; an innovative group video project addressing current policy issues impacting population health in an interdisciplinary course; a training for public health and health profession students, environmental health research projects for trainees, and current limitations for developing environmental medicine and border health elective in a school of medicine; a program and report that evidences its effects at the professional and organizational levels at one community health center site.
Session Objectives: Describe a model of collaborative continuing professional development. Describe and evaluate examples of inter-professional group work addressing population health issues. Identify ways underserved high school students can be supported in pursuing public health careers. Describe an innovative continuing education program for public health practitioners.
Moderator:
Fletcher Njororai, PhD, MCHES

2:30pm
Competency-based training for Medical Officers of Health: A model of collaborative continuing professional development   
Maureen Dobbins, RN, PhD, Katie Tulloch, MPH and Ramona Kyabaggu, MSc
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
2:45pm
Rust College Health Explorers Program: Engaging High School Students to Increase Public Health Diversity   
Elizabeth Williams, PhD, Charles Williams, PhD, Irene Walton-Turnage, EdD, Mohamed Kanu, PhD, MPH, MA, Wendelyn Inman, PhD, Jebose Okwumabua, PhD, Linda Turner, RN, Debra Butler, MSW, Candyce Grandberry, Martin Henderson, Derrick Paige and Teresa Powers
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
3:00pm
Learning Outside of the Classroom: An Environmental Medicine and Public Health Training Program at the Texas-Mexico Border   
Beatriz Tapia, MD, MPH, CPH, Noe Garza, DDS, MPH, DPH and Leonel Vela, MD, MPH
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
3:15pm
Working together to address the social determinants of health: Effects of a continuing education program for public health practitioners   
Lucie Richard, PhD, François Chiocchio, PhD, Éric Litvak, MD, MSc, MM, FRCPP, Sara Torres, PhD, Laurence Fortin-Pellerin, PhD and Nicole Beaudet, MSc

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Occupational Health and Safety, Black Caucus of Health Workers

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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