Tag: Livestream

Change and Public Health: A Deeper Look into Leading Change Successfully

Course Objective

  • Identify key competencies for managing change in the role of the Chief Health Strategist and Public Health 3.0
  • Assess how change impacts individuals and organizations when addressing a major public health crisis
  • Describe how Kotter’s “8-Step Process for Leading Change” may help guide a successful organizational change initiative
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Date: October 1, 2019

Presenter:
Emil J. Sadloch, MA
President, Sadloch Development Associates

In this Month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn about change management principles that public health professionals can utilize from Emil J. Sadloch, MA, President of SADLOCH DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES. Using a systems thinking approach to generate collaboration in Public Health 3.0, Emil provides an overview of how Chief Health Strategists can be change agents, who take the initiative in actualizing change. Emil highlights Kotter’s 8-Step Model for Leading Change as one of various frameworks for implementing change practices.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Identify key competencies for managing change in the role of the Chief Health Strategist and Public Health 3.0
  2. Assess how change impacts individuals and organizations when addressing a major public health crisis
  3. Describe how Kotter’s “8-Step Process for Leading Change” may help guide a successful organizational change initiative
Policy Engagement: An Essential Role for Public Health Agencies in Public Health 3.0

Course Objective

  • Describe the policy engagement process in public health
  • Identify approaches that public health agencies can use to inform policy development
  • Describe how the elements of the community health improvement process can be used to support effective policy engagement to achieve public health goals
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Date: August 6, 2019

Presenter:
Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS
Public Health Practice Consultant

In this Month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn about various policy-focused approaches that public health agencies can utilize from Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS. The lecture takes a systems thinking approach and acknowledges that policy making is a rarely linear process with stages occurring simultaneously. From policy around motor vehicle related incident and fluoridation of drinking water through the transition to Public Health surveillance, this webinar walks participants through the evolution of policy engagement up to Public Health 3.0 and the role of the Chief Health Strategist. Focusing on partnerships and cross-cutting activities such as stakeholder engagement, collaboration and communication Slvia Pirani provides an overview of the policy engagement process.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Describe the policy engagement process in public health
  2. Identify approaches that public health agencies can use to inform policy development
  3. Describe how the elements of the community health improvement process can be used to support effective policy engagement to achieve public health goals
Combating the Opioid Crisis with Audience-Centric Communications Strategies

Course Objective

  • Describe audience knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs around the risks of prescription opioids
  • Develop messaging models that build knowledge in a logical, audience-centric sequence
  • Identify communications strategies to reduce risky management of prescription opioids
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Date: July 9, 2019

Presenter:
Sophia Lerdahl
Group Management Director, Substance Programs
Rescue: The Behavior Change Agency

This webinar discusses the various communication strategies used to reach the diverse audiences surrounding Opioid Misuse. Participants will learn about effective communication strategies in combating the Opioid Crisis from Sophia Lerdahl, Group Management Director at Rescue.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Describe audience knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs around the risks of prescription opioids
  2. Develop messaging models that build knowledge in a logical, audience-centric sequence
  3. Identify communications strategies to reduce risky management of prescription opioids
Systems Thinking for Public Health: An Introduction
Systems Thinking for Public Health An Introduction

Course Objective

  • Define a system
  • Explain why systems thinking is important for public health
  • Describe 3 tools for systems thinking
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Date: May 7, 2019

Presenter:
Dr. Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, MPH, RN

In this month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn from Dr. Jacqueline Merrill about the value of systems thinking in addressing major, complex public health challenges. The lecture provides an overview on public health’s emerging responsibility to engage multiple stakeholders and community partners in improving social determinants of health, as well as how systems thinking can facilitate the creation of context-specific solutions between them. Dr. Merrill introduces the major constructs and describes basic decision-making tools used in systems thinking. At the end of the lecture, Dr. Merrill illustrates in-depth examples in applying systems thinking techniques in public health.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Define a system
  2. Explain why systems thinking is important for public health
  3. Describe 3 tools for systems thinking
Region 2 Public Health Training Center