Course Information
- Audience: Public Health Professionals
- Format: Recorded Webinar
- Date/Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
- 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 0. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_ASLTCPHCA.If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluations, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
- Competencies: Public Health Sciences Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings: None
- Supplemental materials:None
- Pre-requisites: None
About this Recording
Boston
University School of Public Health’s Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human
Rights presents the annual Cathy Shine lecture. The lectureship honors the
memory of Cathy Shine and her dedication to the rights of all those in need of
care. This year’s event will feature Dr. Heidi B. Kummer (SPH ’04). Dr. Kummer
is the founder of the independent practice 3C Patient Advocacy and has served as
President of the Patient Advocate Certification Board since 2021.
What you'll learn
At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
- Describe who health care advocates are and what they do
- Discuss the benefits of certification for patient and health care advocacy professionals
- Discuss what the pandemic taught us about patient safety and shared decision making
- Recognize the challenges we are still facing regarding patient rights advocacy
Moderator
George Annas
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University; Director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
Heidi B. Kummer
President, Patient Advocate Certification Board (SPH '04)
Dr. Zaman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health at Boston University. He also serves as the Director of Boston University’s Center on Forced Displacement. He received his master’s and P.h.D from the University of Chicago. In addition to five books and over 130 peer-reviewed research articles, Professor Zaman has written extensively on innovation, refugee and global health in newspapers around the world. His newspaper columns have appeared in over 30 countries and have been translated into eight languages. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, the most recent being Guggenheim Fellowship (2020) for his work on antibiotic resistance in refugee camps.
Subject Matter Expert
George J. Annas is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University and Director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health, and a member of the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the School of Public Health. He is also a Professor at the School of Law and School of Medicine. He is author or editor of 20 books on health law and bioethics, including The Rights of Patients (3d ed 2004), Public Health Law (2d ed 2014), American Bioethics (2005), Worst Case Bioethics (2010), and Genomic Messages (2015). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the co-founder of Global Lawyers & Physicians, a NGO dedicated to promoting health and human rights.
Registration
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Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 “Public Health Training Centers.” The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.