Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Continuing Education and Training Resources
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Annual Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference Division of Reproductive Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference organizers invite you to join MCH professionals in sharing experiences, enhancing knowledge, and generating new ideas for improved MCH data use and informed policymaking. Local health departments (LHDs) are encouraged to participate. NACCHO may be able to offer travel scholarships for local health departments selected to present oral presentations or posters. Scholarships are for NACCHO member LHDs only, and are based on available funding.
12th Annual Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference Deadline: May 8, 2006 Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs: MCH Epidemiology Training Guide State and local public health agency staff must be proficient in data capacity to perform essential public health services. Data collection, analysis, and interpretation allow public health professionals to monitor changes in the healthcare delivery system that affect public health outcomes.
The Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Training Resource Guide provides an inventory of available MCH epidemiology training programs to build and strengthen MCH capacity. DaTA Institute: Data to Action for Effective MCH Leadership
The DaTA Institute model translates data to action. The program helps public health develop the skills needed for leadership, systems thinking, and communication.
Maternal and Child Health Bureau/Health Resources and Services Administration DataSpeak is a series of Web conferences related to MCH data, including children with special healthcare needs. DataSpeak is conducted by the MCH Information Resource Center, which is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Office of Data and Information Management.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. ICPSR supports researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.
Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) The PPOR Approach is used to mobilize and focus fetal and infant mortality to prioritize prevention efforts, ideally in concert with other proven tools that are already in place (e.g., Healthy Start, Fetal Infant Morality Review, and Child Death Review programs). Using linked birth-death files combined with fetal death data, communities can identify in which "periods of risk" there are greatest disparities.
If you know of additional resources that are not listed, please e-mail Angela Ablorh-Odjidja (aablorh@naccho.org) with the subject heading "MCH Epidemiology Resources."
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