Public Health Leadership in Times of Crisis Webinar Recording

Webinar Description 

In the July session of Hot Topics in Practice, Anne Zink, Chief Medical Officer for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, shares her perspective for addressing the COVID-19 crisis in the face of existing geographic, cultural, and economic challenges in the country’s largest state.

This one-hour webinar will review how Alaska’s public health and health care systems are responding to the second wave of COVID-19 cases to distribute resources more equitably and minimize the impacts on small, remote communities. Dr. Zink will also share strategies for partnering and communicating common values within different cultural contexts to collaboratively support health.

This presentation includes a conversation with Dr. Robert Onders from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium about how the state’s American Indian and Alaska Native populations are leading in their own communities and using strategies from past pandemics to survive and thrive.

Presenters

Anne Zink, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Robert Onders, MD, Medical Director, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

How to Watch 

Click here to watch the recording of this installment in the Hot Topics series with the North West Center for Public Health Practice. In order to watch this webinar and others on this site, you will need to create a free account on their website first. 

Turning Assumptions into Knowledge with Mathematical Models, Webinar Recording

The webinar is presented by Eleanor Murray, ScD, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health.

Webinar Description

Mathematical models are an important part of the epidemiologic toolkit, especially during rapidly evolving health crises where data availability is limited. Valid inference about population-level outcomes can be obtained from mathematical models but only under strong assumptions, many of which are often not explicitly described. Dr. Eleanor Murray, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at BUSPH, explains the basics of mathematical modeling using individual-level or agent-based simulation models, and explains the assumptions required to learn about causal effects from these models.

How to Watch

Click here to watch the webinar on Population Health Exchange. 

EGHI Forum: Racism & Global Health, 7/22

Description 

Join the Emory Global Health Institute on Wednesday, July 22 at 12:00 p.m. for a panel discussion on racism and global health. Our panel of experts will discuss the history of colonialism and neoliberalism, racism and implicit bias in healthcare, the call for anti-racism for global health professionals, and the role of academia in addressing racism as part of global health action.

How to Watch

• Click here to register for the virtual forum
• Or, the event will also be live streamed on EGHI’s Facebook page

EPI COVID-19 Response Webinar, 7/21

Description 

Please join us for our third webinar highlighting the Department of Epidemiology’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic! We will be joined by Dr. Sam Jenness who will discuss network-based strategies for COVID-19 control.

Webinar Details

• Date and time: Tuesday, July 21 at 12pm. 
• Find the Zoom link to join in your Emory email!

Health Equity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Urban-Rural Dimensions, 7/29

Description 

Sponsored by the SER Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Committee, this upcoming SERexpert event will explore the differential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in rural and urban communities in the US. Speakers will describe the impact of COVID-19 on rural and urban communities, challenges to confronting the virus and inequities in who is impacted within and between these settings. Given the differences in population density, access to health care and population demographics a focus on rural and urban communities will help highlight the dimensions of inequity exacerbated by COVID-19.

How to Register 

• Click here to register for this upcoming SER webinar on July 29, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

SERexperts Live – CSTE Applied Fellowship Program Webinar, 9/9

Description

Please join us for SER’s first, collaborative webinar with The Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology Fellowship (AEF) Program! Hosted by Amanda Masters, the Deputy Director for Governance, Strategy and Support Program (CSTE), join us to learn about this Applied Epidemiology Fellowship program! This unique fellowship program is designed for recent master’s or doctoral level graduates in Epidemiology (or a related field) whom are interested in public health practice at the state/local level. Following an overview of the program, two CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellows will present their research. Following the presentations, the panelists will be available to answer any questions you might have regarding the program.

Event Details 

• Date: Wednesday September 9th, 2020 12:00-1:00PM EST
• Click here for a full workshop description and the registration link.

Enhancing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Preparedness, Webinar

Description

In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series at the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, Ira SenGupta, Executive Director of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program, highlights standards as a set of guidelines and strategies for improving public health preparedness. The five steps to cultural competency are utilized to demonstrate the successful movement from cultural bump to cultural congruence in individual and community partnerships for health.

Learning Objectives

• Identify key concepts of the 14 Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards as a benchmark for effective public health services.
• Define the concepts of diversity, culture, and cultural competency and their relevance in public health preparedness.
• Describe practical applications of culturally competent communication strategies in public health preparedness.

How to Register

• Click here to access this free training online 

Action Against Racism: Discussion on Doing the Work, 6/23

Description

With increased discourse around racism and systemic oppression comes a number of questions. More and more people are waking up to the injustices that Black and Brown communities live through every day. People are wondering where to start, how to work towards anti-racism, what their role is as a non-Black person in breaking down anti-Black racism, and how we can work together to contribute to the movement and fight for justice

Join CityMatCH for conversation around these very topics! We are hosting a call featuring a panel of public health professionals who will share about their journeys against racism – personal or professional – and what it means to them.

Meeting Details 

• The meeting will take place on June 23, 2020 at 1PM EST 
• Click here to register! 

Addressing Racism and COVID-19 Webinar, 6/30

Description

New data confirm that COVID-19 is disproportionately and negatively impacting communities of color and exacerbating existing health inequities.

In the June session of Hot Topics in Practice, Matías Valenzuela, Equity Director, Public Health – Seattle & King County and Director of COVID-19 Community Mitigation and Recovery, shares his team’s efforts to uncover the root causes of these inequities and offers strategies for dismantling racism and supporting health in these times.

Matías will begin with a brief history of the health equity work at King County that has laid the foundation for their COVID-19 response. He will then discuss elements of their COVID-19 response that make it unique from previous emergency preparedness efforts, sharing new data and tools that support this work. The presentation will close with a conversation about the ways public health agencies can improve their systems and services to address structural racism and strengthen resilience in marginalized communities.

Register today and join the discussion to center equity as this pandemic evolves.

Register 

• Click here to register!
• The live webinar will occur on Jun 30, 2020 12:00 PM PT (3:00PM EST)

Communication Challenges Surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic Webinar

Description 

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided and continues to provide huge challenges to our public health system. One challenge has been behavioral, in that mitigating the consequences of the disease involves huge behavioral changes and long term cooperation on the part of the public at large. Changing behavior and gaining the public’s cooperation is in part a problem in communication and persuasion. In this webinar, we will discuss four challenges to communicating successfully during the COVID-19 pandemic including:

1. the need for clear, consistent, credible and apolitical communication (CCCaP)
2. how various types of informational uncertainty challenge CCCaP
3. how misinformation challenges CCCaP and how it can be addressed (and not addressed)
4. looking ahead to the virus’ demise with the development of a successful vaccine, public health campaigns must ready the public to accept vaccination especially in communities which have traditionally had low vaccination rates.

Click here to watch this webinar!