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Is it time to consider using Human Rights standards to look at Health?
What do you know about human rights and how can a public health practitioner support human rights?
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Course Information
- Audience: Public Health Practitioners/ Professionals including Community Health Workers
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: October 28, 2020
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: PM1131137_10282020.
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: Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings: None
- Supplemental materials:Session PowerPoint
- Pre-requisites None
About this Webinar
What is the potential paradigm shift of applying human rights standards to your public health practice?
What you'll learn
At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define human rights
- Apply questions to identify changes necessary for using human rights standards in your public health practice
- Describe 2 websites for definitive resources for human rights standards
Subject Matter Expert
Loretta RossAssociate Professor at Smith College
Loretta Ross is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender for the 2019-2021 academic years.
She started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s, working at the National Football League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, until retiring as an organizer in 2012 to teach about activism. Her passion transforms anger into social justice to change the world.
Her most recent books are Reproductive Justice: An Introduction co-written with Rickie Solinger, and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique, both published in 2017. Her forthcoming book is Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Detoxing Our Movement due out in 2020.
She has appeared on CNN, BET, "Lead Story," "Good Morning America," "The Donahue Show," the National Geographic Channel, and "The Charlie Rose Show.” She has been quoted in the New York Times, Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among others.
Her activism began as a rape and incest survivor as a teen mother. She graduated college at age 55. She is from San Antonio, TX and lives in Atlanta, GA. She is a mother and grandmother, and an avid pinochle player. Her dream is to see Venus and Serena Williams play tennis in person.
Registration
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Acknowledgement: This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31685 “Regional Public Health Training Center Program.” This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
* Yale School of Public Health,
Office of Public Health Practice, a New England Public Health Training Center
partner, is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH)
in health education by the National Commission for Health Education
Credentialing, Inc. All CHES credit inquiries are managed by YSPH