Resources
Library of materials | Web-based MPH courses | Other online resources
Library of materials
The Kansas Public Health WALD Center has a large library of educational resources including videotapes, books, and CD-ROMs. These are available for the public to check out, and health care workers from around the state are encouraged to take advantage of these free resources.
The WALD Center possesses resources on the following topics:
Antimicrobial Resistance
Chronic Diseases
Communicable Diseases
Disaster and Terrorism Preparedness
Disease Preparedness
Environmental Health
Healthcare Improvement
Human Research Regulations
Leadership
Mental Health
Minority Health
Obesity and Physical Activity
Preventable Diseases
Risk Communication
Social Capital
Substance Abuse
Systems Thinking
Vaccinations
If you are interested in a complete list of resources or in checking out materials from the WALD Library, please contact the WALD Center at 316-293-2627, or e-mail tstromain@kumc.edu.
Web-based MPH courses
The KU-MPH program offers distance education courses in order to:
- Provide a means of enhancing knowledge and skills to public health professionals and health care practitioners in counties located at a distance from the KU-MPH teaching sites in Wichita and Kansas City, and
- Serve employed students who are unable to take all the traditional classes they wish to complete because of schedule conflicts.
Instructional methods used in these mediated courses include readings, online discussions, two-way video conferencing, videotaped presentations, self-paced CD-ROMs and other technologies.
Almost the entire MPH degree can be earned online. For more information regarding admissions requirements, visit http://mph.kumc.edu/admission.html. Students may also take Web-based courses as a non-degree student. For more information, or to apply as a non-degree student, contact Melissa Armstrong at 316-293-2693.
Examples of Web-based courses offered through the KU-MPH degree program include: Principles of Epidemiology, Public Health Administration, Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health, Health Communication, Tobacco and Public Health, Obesity and Public Health, Surveillance and Control of Infectious Disease, and Seminar in Women’s Health.
Other online resources
There are a number of public health online resources available from different agencies across the country. The following list is meant to supplement the educational needs of the Kansas Public Health workforce. Accessing any of these links will take you out of the WALD Web site.
The Public Health Training Network Catalog
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/PHTN/media.asp
US Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/
What is Public Health?
http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=300
APHA Public Health links
http://www.apha.org/public_health/
The Center for Health Leadership and Practice
http://www.cfhl.org/
Federal Training Network
http://www.fedlearn.com/
Distance Learning Clearinghouse
http://www.trainingfinder.org
The book: Preparing for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan
Medical Response System Program can be read for free online
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10412.html?onpi_listserv071202
"Responding First to Bioterrorism" is a search engine for more than 3,000
first responder related Web sites
http://www.nap.edu/shelves/first/
The Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress Terrorism Studies
provides research of literature written by experts on terrorism, inside and
outside government
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/terrorism.html
The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?
Report prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division,
Library of Congress Sept 1999
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/Soc_Psych_of_Terrorism.pdf
Media Interaction with the Public in Emergency Situations:
Four Case Studies: A Report prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress Aug 1999
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/Media_Interaction.pdf
The Collaborative is a group of seven states and five national partner organizations
working to study and promote feasible models to manage public health performance.
The seven states include Alaska, Illinois (lead state), Missouri, Montana,
New Hampshire, New York, and West Virginia. National partners include ASTHO,
NACCHO, CDC, HRSA, and the Association of State and Territorial Local Health
Liaison Officials. Visit this site for information about the Collaborative
and other reports examining performance management in public health: http://www.turningpointprogram.org/Pages/perfmgt.html
Visit the Pennsylvania and Ohio Public Health Training Center at http://www.pophtc.pitt.edu/. This Web site contains several public health resources.
To learn more about the National Public Health Performance Standards Program, visit http://www.cdc.gov/od/ocphp/nphpsp
INFORMATION AND RESOURCES FROM THE COUNCIL ON LINKAGES
General information on the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice can be found at http://www.phf.org/Link.htm
View the Council’s list of core competencies for public health professionals at http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/list.htm
Tools for helping to implement the core competencies can be found at http://www.phf.org/Link/tools.htm#Competencies
A description of the framework, "Developing a Public Health Research and Applications Agenda," can be found at http://www.phf.org/Link/vol13n1/devagend-ronbialek.htm
