Upcoming Satellite Broadcasts/Webcasts

Inequities in Food Security Across the Lifespan: Cultural and Geographic Issues

Wednesday, February 1, 2012      12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (CST)

Faculty: Joseph R. Sharkey, PhD, MPH, RD, Professor, Social & Behavioral Health; Director, Texas Healthy Aging Research Network; Director, Program for Research in Nutrition & Health Disparities, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health

Program Overview:
The World Food Summit says food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle.  While the concept seems relatively simple enough, the fact is, social determinants like poverty, gender, and the environment all affect how people obtain their food, which means some populations' dietary needs are not being met.  Program Faculty will discuss how this  lack of access to nutritious food leads to critical health problems and they will also provide insight on how to balance the inequities.

Program Objectives: 

• Define food security in a cultural and geographic context.
• Discuss the importance of food security status in maintaining nutritional health across the life span.
• Describe the importance of understanding contextual influences on food security and healthy eating.
• Describe opportunities and barriers that affect low-income populations in underserved and persistently poor areas.
• Describe strategies for measuring food security across the life span.
  

Target Audience: 

Nurses, Social Workers, Dietitians, Public Health Educators, those working with underserved populations

Continuing Education:

Nursing, Social Work and Dietitian (applied for)
The Alabama Department of Public Health is an approved provider of continuing education by the Alabama State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

For more information regarding this broadcast including registration information, please click here

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HIV Testing and Beyond: Promoting Linkage, Retention and Adherence to HIV Care

Wednesday, February 15, 2012      12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (CST)

Faculty: Michael J. Mugavero, MD, MHSc, Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinical Cohort Director, Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Program Overview: 
This program will describe the discrete processes across the continuum of HIV care.  Information will be presented in the context of the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which includes explicit goals for serostatus awareness, linkage and retention in HIV medical care. Operational definitions will be reviewed along with synthesis of the state of the science regarding testing and engagement in HIV care.  Model programs will be reviewed with emphasis on integrated, interdisciplinary programs relevant to individuals working in HIV in community, public health and clinic-based settings.

Program Objectives:

• Explain the individual and public health implications of success across the continuum of HIV care, including testing and engagement in care.
• Distinguish and illustrate the processes of engagement in HIV care: linkage, retention and re-engagement in care.
• Describe the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy measures and goals for testing linkage and retention in care.

Continuing Education:

Nursing, Social Work (applied for)
The Alabama Department of Public Health is an approved provider of continuing education by the Alabama State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

For more information regarding this broadcast including registration information, please click here

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