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Upcoming events

  • Iowa Caregivers Leadership Program

    • 11 Jun 2013
    • 25 Jun 2013
    • multiple locations in Iowa

    The ICA's “A Call to Leadership: A Direct Care Professional’s Guide to Developing Leadership Skills” program is a one-day educational program for direct care professionals held every year at multiple locations in the state. It encourages direct care professionals to think more broadly about leadership outside of the workplace, professionalism, and how to become a spokesperson and role model for the direct care profession. Graduates receive a certificate of attendance and a class pin.

     

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  • Local Implementation for Healthy and Safe Community Environments

    • 18 Jun 2013
    • webinar

    The National Prevention Strategy and Public Health Governance: Local Implementation for Healthy and Safe Community Environments

    This environmental health webinar will discuss the National Prevention Strategy and its approach to ensuring healthy and safe community environments

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  • You Don't Say? Tobacco and the First Amendment

    • 18 Jun 2013
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • webinar

    In this webinar, speakers will provide an overview of the evolving commercial speech doctrine and explain the different tests that courts apply to laws regulating commercial speech.  They will highlight First Amendment challenges to tobacco control laws and policies, and discuss the potential impact of recent court rulings on the future of tobacco regulation.

    Who: Public Health Law Center

     

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  • Cultural Compentency and LGBT Health Disparities: Identifying Barriers and Tailoring Strategies

    • 18 Jun 2013
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • webinar

    Cultural Competency and LGBT Health Disparities: Identifying Barriers and Tailoring Strategies

     The cyber-seminar will explore several health disparities the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population faces across the cancer continuum.

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  • Take Action: Focus on What's Important

    • 18 Jun 2013
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • webinar

    Nazeera DawoodThis webinar will provide an overview of the Focus on What's ImportantGuide in the Roadmaps to Health Action Center. It will also feature guest presenter Nazeera Dawood, Health Promotion Program Manager at the Fulton County (Georgia) Department of Health & Wellness. She will discuss how Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, selected priorities using input from county leadership and the community and the importance of taking that first step from assessment to action.

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  • Know, Grow, and Eat Your Vegetables

    • 19 Jun 2013
    • webinar

    Know, Grow, and Eat Your Vegetables


    Join this webinar to learn about the collaboration between Schenectady County Public Health Services and Schenectady ARC which was recognized as a Model Practice by NACCHO in 2012.

     

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  • Implementing Equity in Health in All Policies & Health Impact Assessments: From Concept to Action

    • 19 Jun 2013
    • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
    • webinar

    This webinar will focus specifically on why equity is critical to Health in All Policies (HiAP) and Health Impact Assessments (HIA), and specific strategies to implement and ensure equity.

     

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  • Planning for Pandemics: Crunching the Numbers on H1N1

    • 19 Jun 2013
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Webinar

    This webinar will focus on the findings from a recent retrospective study that explored surge experienced in hospitals during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

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  • NACCHO & CDC Communications Webinar Series

    • 19 Jun 2013
    • 2:00 PM
    • 18 Sep 2013
    • webinar

     

    Series of webinars through September 2013 that will help local health departments (LHDs) strengthen their communications capacity and explore marketing and branding, message clarity, new media, and evaluation.

     

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  • Ethics in Public Health: A Closer Look at Current Issues

    • 20 Jun 2013
    • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
    • webinar

    Ethics in Public Health: A Closer Look at Current Issues

    The webinar will focus on defining public health ethics, the differences between clinical ethics and public health ethics, and current issues in public health ethics.

     

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  • Implementing a Tobacco-Free Policy at your Worksite

    • 20 Jun 2013
    • 11:30 AM
    • webinar

    Interested in implementing a tobacco-free policy at your worksite and offering your employees a FREE onsite tobacco cessation class?  The Central Iowa Tobacco-free Partnership (CITP) has the tools to help!  Join us for a free webinar on Thursday, June 20th at 11:30am to learn about how beneficial it is to simply update or implement your current tobacco policy for the health of your employees.  There will be no registration for this webinar, just simply visit www.lungia.org/tobaccofreeworksite on Thursday, June 20th at 11:30am to view. CITP can provide a useful toolkit that will walk you step by step through the process.  In addition, by implementing or updating your current policy, we can offer FREE onsite or online tobacco cessation classes for your employees, and free signage for your worksite.  For more information call (515) 309-9507, ext. 236 or visit us on the web at www.TobaccoFreePartnership.com.

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  • Environmental Noise: Public Health Effects and Legal Remedies

    • 20 Jun 2013
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • webinar

    Presenters: Sid Shapiro J.D. (moderator), University Distinguished Chair in Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, Alice S. Suter M.S. Ed, Ph.D., Consultant, formerly of United States Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, June Weintraub Sc.D., M.S., B.S.C.E., Senior Epidemiologist, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Monica S. Hammer J.D., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Visiting Attorney, Network for Public Health Law Mid-States Region.

     

    Environmental noise can lead to an array of health issues including hearing loss and heart disease. But noise is ubiquitous and comes from a myriad of sources, which limits individuals in their power to lower the levels of dangerous noise at work, school, and on private and public property.

     

    This webinar explores why noise is a public health issue, which legal tools may be best suited to lower noise and minimize risk of harm, and what innovations to reduce the harmful effects of noise are currently underway. Presenters will discuss the noise threshold that is considered dangerous, and who is responsible to ensure safe levels of community noise; how federal, state, and local government can use their authority to protect the public from dangerous levels of noise; and which legal tools have the potential to protect public health and ensure civil liberties, such as free speech, are protected.

     

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  • Breaking Down the Rankings Model: Sexual Activity How one Community Tackled Teen Pregnancy

    • 20 Jun 2013
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • webinar

    Nicole Agresano On this webinar, Angela Russell, Community Engagement Lead for the County Health Rankings, and Nicole Agresano, Vice President of Community Impact for the United Way of Greater Milwaukee will discuss their Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, which has become a nationwide model for successful collaboration. Milwaukee has long had a teen pregnancy crisis - one of the root causes of cyclical poverty in the community. The United Way Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative has made a big difference, however. It celebrated its sixth anniversary in 2012 and is on track to reach its goal to reduce births to 15-to-17 year old girls by 46% by 2015.

     

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  • The Tobacco Control Act Four Years Later: Living Up to its Promise

    • 24 Jun 2013
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • webinar

    June 22, 2013, marks the fourth anniversary of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, which granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products to benefit public health. In this webinar, speakers will reflect on the past four years of federal tobacco regulation, including successes, disappointments, and hopes for the future.

    Who: Public Health Law Center

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  • Field Experiences in Public Health

    • 25 Jun 2013
    • 02 Aug 2013
    • College of Public Health, University of Iowa/Des Moines University

    Students will gain experience in the practice of public health in the following areas:

    environmental health, infectious diseases, chronic diseases, chronic diseases, occupational and injury, and behavioral health as well as emergency response and death investigations, using practical examples and include site visits for topic-specific field investigations.

    Student Enrollment:

    This course will be taught from two locations and connected electronically:

    1. College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City

    2. Des Moines University, Des Moines

    Registration Begins: April 22, 2013

    To Register:

    University of Iowa students use your Hawk ID and password and go to ISIS. All other students

    Register here.

    For questions please call 319-335-2575 or 1-800-272-6430 or e-mail dce-registration@uiowa.edu

    Class Dates: June 25 through August 2, 2013 (M-W-F mornings, first week is T-W-F mornings)

    Course Pre-requisites: A public health epidemiology course, for example “Epidemiology I:

    Principles” (but may be waived by course director)

    Credit Hours: 3 Semester Hours

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  • Public Health Reports Webinar: New Organ Transplant Recommendations

    • 25 Jun 2013
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • webinar

    Public Health Reports Webinar: New Organ Transplant Recommendations

    The webinar will provide information on new recommendations to improve organ transplant recipient outcomes by reducing the risk of HIV, HBV, and HCV transmission.

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  • Building Sustainability: One Health Department's Response to a Resource Crisis

    • 25 Jun 2013
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • webinar

    Presenter: Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN

    In 2008, Illinois' Kane County Health Department faced a new reality. The global recession had significantly reduced their operating revenues while community members expressed an increased demand for their services. In the wake of this resource crisis, department leaders developed a strategic, organizational response that transformed the agency's finances and offerings.

    In the June Hot Topics, Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, tells the story of how his leadership team used the public health accreditation standards to create a "slimmer, flatter, and more focused" agency with greater potential for long-term growth and sustainability. During the one-hour session, Kuehnert will also discuss how the reorganization led to increased community partnerships, additional revenue sources, and new opportunities for population-based prevention efforts.

    Register today and learn new approaches for leading organizational change.

    Slides will be available the day before the session on the  Hot Topics website. This session will be recorded and the archive posted by the next day.

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  • Affordable Care Act implementation one year post-decision: Medicaid expansion, preventive services, and public health implications

    • 26 Jun 2013
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • webinar

    In June 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, but made the law’s Medicaid expansion effectively optional for states. One year later – just months ahead of the ACA’s planned coverage expansions – experts from the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) offer an update on states’ decisions regarding Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchanges and discuss the implications for public health. NHeLP experts will also discuss the current challenges to other parts of the ACA, including the requirement that most health plans cover contraceptive services and supplies, and briefly discuss implementation of other ACA provisions regarding public health. This webinar is intended to answer questions the public health community may have about these important but complex implementation issues.

     

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  • Performance Improvement in Public Health: From Conceptualization to Implementation

    • 26 Jun 2013
    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
    • webinar

    Performance Improvement in Public Health: From Conceptualization to Implementation

    This webinar will include an introduction to the concept and importance of performance management and will feature the story of one health department's experience with developing a performance management system, using that system to evaluate the agency's activities, and connecting the system to quality improvement, strategic planning, and community health improvement.

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  • Tracking Webinar Series Part II: Incorporating Environmental Public Health Tracking Into Health Impact Assessments

    • 27 Jun 2013
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • webinar

     

    Want to learn how you can leverage data from the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network for Health Impact Assessments? Then join us for a co-presentation by the Minnesota Department of Health’s Environmental Public Health Tracking and Climate & Health Programs describing their successful use of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease data in Health Impact Assessments. Speakers will discuss opportunities for intersection between HIA and Tracking data and will also provide participants with a national perspective on the uses of Health Impact Assessments and the Tracking Network.

    This is the second in a three-part series of Environmental Public Health Tracking Program webinars co-sponsored by the American Public Health Association, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the National Association of County and City Health Officials.Register today.

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  • Menthol in Tobacco Products: What Local Health Departments Can Do

    • 09 Jul 2013
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • webinar

    During this NACCHO webinar, experts from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium will discuss what local health departments can do to press the FDA to take bold action while also considering local policy options to address the devastating public health impact of menthol in tobacco products.

    Who: National Association of County and City Health Officials

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  • Public Health Informatics 2013 Virtual Event

    • 16 Jul 2013
    • 18 Jul 2013
    • webinar

    As CDC and public health continue to work with reduced resources, it is tempting to assume that our public health impact will also decrease. Fewer resources mean that public health work must be as effective as possible in order to benefit the most people.

    This virtual event provides a zero cost platform for public health partners to share and collaborate with partners all over the globe. Selected abstracts will be required to produce a video submission of their abstract for broadcast during the virtual event.

     

    Register here by 6.2.13

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  • National Conference on Health Communications, Marketing & Media

    • 20 Aug 2013
    • 22 Aug 2013
    • Atlanta, Georgia

    The conference will focus on health communication, social marketing, media, partnerships, and public health policy communication.

     

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  • Save the Date: Going the Distance Iowa Caregivers Conference

    • 23 Sep 2013
    • 24 Sep 2013
    • The Meadows Events and Conference Center, Prairie Meadows, Altoona, iowa

    Look for workshops on these topics: 

     

    Autism

    Mental Health

    Palliative Care

    Hospice Care

    Power of Attorney/Guardianship

    Health and Wellness

    Oral Health

    Boundaries in the Workplace

    Skin Care

    Conflict Resolution

    Parkinson's Disease

    Medications

    and MORE

     

    More information coming in July!

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  • NEHA Education Conference

    • 25 Sep 2013
    • 26 Sep 2013
    • Radisson Conference Center, LaCrosse, Wisconsin

    Join us for this historic NEHA/Joint Education Conference including state environmental associations from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, along with the Wisconsin Association of Dairy Plant Field Reps (WADPFR).  This regional conference will be held at the Radisson Conference Center in LaCrosse, WI on September 25 and 26, 2013.  Your registration fee includes:

    All educational sessions and conference materials

    Meet and greet with appetizers on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings

    Wednesday breakfast and luncheon

    Thursday breakfast

    Refreshment breaks Wednesday and Thursday

    A chance to bid on some exciting silent auction items (proceeds go to WEHA scholarships) Cash or check only for the auction

    Awesome door prizes including some major grand prizes after the closing speaker (must be present to win)  Last year we gave away a 46" LED HD TV, a Kindle Fire, a GPS, and a 1 Terabyte portable hard drive.  All registrants will be automatically entered

     Conference details including session topics and speaker bios will be continually  updated on the WEHA website (www.weha.net).  Check back often!

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  • Save the Date for Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland

    • 15 Oct 2013
    • Embassy Suites, Des Moines

     

    Join fellow Iowans for this non-partisan, one-day conference focused on the significant changes, challenges and opportunities in Iowa’s health system.  Topics including financing, delivery, enrollment and quality are likely to be discussed. 

     

    This series is hosted by the University of Iowa Health Sciences Policy Council.   Information about this series is available at http://rebalancinghealthcare.uiowa.edu/

     

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  • 35th Annual Iowa Healthcare Executive Symposium

    • 24 Oct 2013
    • 25 Oct 2013
    • University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

    This annual event brings together hospital administrators and health care executives from around the state. Registration will be open June 1.

    Registration available June 1, 2013.

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