Addressing Rising Rates of STDs with innovative Public Health Programs
Why are rates of STD increases rising so quickly in the US?
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Course Information
- Audience: Public Heath Professionals, school health, community professionals engaged with populations of concern
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: June 17th , 2019
12:00-1:00 PM EST - Price: Free
- Length: 1 hour
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_ARRSTD.
If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course. - Competencies: Community Partnership Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings None
- Supplemental materials: None
- Pre-requisites: None
About this Webinar
This webinar focuses on the epidemiology of STD infection in the US, including recent increases in STD rates. It also describes innovative strategies to diagnose and treat STDs in New England and beyond.
What you'll learn
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the epidemiology of increasing STDs across the United States and in New England.
- Identify recent advances in clinical prevention and treatment of STDs.
- Describe innovative public health approaches to "express " screening for STDs.
Subject Matter Expert
Dr. Philip A.Chan, MD, MS
Medical director, RIPHI, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at Brown University.
Dr. Philip A. Chan, MD, MS is Medical Director, Rhode Island Public Health Institute, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Brown University. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Chan is Medical Director of the premier sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic in Rhode Island, as well as Rhode Island’s only dedicated Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Program. Dr. Chan is PI of multiple NIH grants to study HIV prevention including intervention to promote PrEP uptake and HIV testing. He is PI of a three-site PrEP clinical implementation science program in Jackson, Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri and Providence, Rhode Island (NIMH, MPI, R01MH114657). Dr. Chan is also site PI of the local AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) in Rhode Island. He serves as Consultant Medical Director for the Rhode Island Department of Health Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB and is actively engaged in many clinical and community-based public health programs to respond to STD and HIV rates among sexual and gender minorities in Rhode Island and beyond. He is also the medical director of the Rhode Island Public Health Institute.
Registration and Contact Hours
Select the Enroll button below to register for this webinar. If you have any trouble accessing the webinar, contact trainingmanager@nephtc.org.
The Certificate of Completion will include the length of the webinar. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour. Contact hours may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. Check with your credentialing body to verify if the topic meets its continuing education requirements.