Alliance Classroom-based Training
| Many courses are offered in the classroom in collaboration with our public health partners. The Alliance brochure contains a partial list. Contact Alveta Haynes for more information. In Massachusetts we regularly offer a 45 hour course "Foundations for Local Public Health Practice; Tools Needed to Get the Job Done" in conjunction with the Local Public Health Institute of Massachusetts. For more information, view the Foundations course brochure. |  |
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Available on CD/DVD:
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Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the Practitioner (CD)
Caring for the Public Health in Rhode Island (CD)
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CD)
Local Public Health Practice: Prevent, Promote, Protect (CD)
Public Health Interventions: Applications for Public Health Nursing Practice (CD or DVD)
Tools for Effective Local Health Administration (CD)
Course Descriptions
Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the Practitioner (CD)
A CD with lecture slides, handouts and resources on subject matter that includes: the history and overview of epidemiology; surveillance and investigation principles; data collection and analysis;
the pitfalls of epidemiology; and cancer clusters.
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Caring for the Public Health in Rhode Island (CD)
A course focusing on the Public Health Role of Community Centers (CHC) in Rhode Island and
targeted to all those participating as CHC board members.
A person completing this course will be able to:
1. Describe and explain the factors influencing access to quality health care quality;
2. State the history and perspective of community health centers;
3. List and describe the responsibilities of community health centers and its members. Completion time: 90 minutes.
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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CD)
A CD with lecture slides, a facilitator's manual and pre/post tests for a tabletop exercise on communication during a bioterrorist attack on food.
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Local Public Health Practice: Prevent, Promote, Protect (CD)
A three part introduction to public health practice in Manchester, NH including Foundations of Public Health Practice, Assessing, Enforcing and Assuring the Health of the Public, and Improving Access to Care
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Public Health Interventions: Applications for Public Health Nursing Practice (CD or DVD)
A roundtable discussion with the Massachusetts Association of Public Health Nurses and Linda Keller Olson, MS, RN, CS, a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow and Consultant for the Minnesota Department of Health. Both CD and DVD versions are available.
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Tools for Effective Local Health Administration (CD)
A CD with lecture slides, handouts and resources on subject matter that includes developing effective responses and managing a health department.
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Conducting a Basic Housing Inspection (Website)
This module is a basic introduction to housing code inspections in Massachusetts that identifies the key elements of a complaint-based investigation and inspection.
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Conflict
Management and Conducting a Hearing (Website)
Multimedia module that reviews the
Board of Health role in conflict management and in conducting hearings.
This link will take you to the MAHB elearning center.
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Doing
It Right: Swimming Pool and Bathing Beach Testing (Flash)
Multi-media module that demonstrates
the proper collection of samples for bathing beaches and swimming pools and
the proper method for conducting swimming pool chemistry tests.
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Hepatitis
in Sparta: A Multimedia Teaching Module (RealPlayer)
Interactive, problem-based teaching
module based on a fictional outbreak of Hepatitis A.
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Improving the Public's Health: Environmental Justice & Community Partnership Considerations for Public Health Nurses (Flash)
This audio-visual course frames the issue of Public Health and Public Health Nursing Practice in the context of Environmental Justice. By the end of this course, you will have a basic foundation to examine the influence of race, class, and poverty on many of the environmental issues that face our communities today. We hope that you will find the course engaging, and enriching to your practice. Please feel free to contact the instructors with feedback.
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Maine Elders and Emergencies: Working for the Future (Website)
This course provides useful information for those seeking to assist the elderly and their caregivers to adequately prepare for a range of emergencies, from common natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and ice storms to less common human - caused emergencies.
Username = Elder (case sensitive)
Password = Elder (case sensitive)
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Online Video Modules:
Using Excel for Public Health (Website)
These are short narrated video modules that demonstrate how to use Excel for a variety of tasks. The examples were obtained from a variety of practitioners in local health departments in Massachusetts . Each module helps you develop specific skills that are listed beneath the module title. The “Start Time” indicates in minutes and seconds, exactly where in the module a specific skill is demonstrated. The Flash videos all have a slide bar that allows you to rapidly move forward and backward throughout the video.
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Online Video Modules:
Introduction to Using MAVEN (Website)
These are short narrated video modules provide a step-by-step introduction to the use of the online MAVEN system for reporting and tracking infectious disease in Massachusetts.
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Orientation
to Public Health and the Vermont Department of Health (PowerPoint)
An overview of public health, the programs in the Vermont Dept. of Health,
and the role that public health plays in Vermont.
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Program Evaluation in a Nutshell (RealPlayer)
Lecture by Professor John Howland.
This is a classroom lecture that provides a walk-through of “big picture” program evaluation. The video addresses “What is program evaluation and how does it work?” It looks at the various constituent parts. The program also develops an intervention with a trial to evaluate the intervention. 1:44:34 length
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Safe
and Healthy: 'How Public Health Protects Us' Video (RealPlayer)
Informational introduction on how public health plays a role in the
community and home in Massachusetts.
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