Every day, information is generated and made available to the public about the risks and benefits of public policies, new products, and corporate behavior. People are accessing this information in real time via traditional news, online media, and word of mouth. The public’s near-instant access to this unfiltered information presents significant new risks, including reputation damage for companies who cause health or environmental damage,...

Preparing for What’s Next in U.S. Health Reform will offer key lessons involving health reform and policy, focusing on its impact on you as a leader and on your organization. The nation’s leading health policy experts will explain essential lessons from current reform efforts, discuss what to anticipate with the next round of policy innovations under the new national administration, and offer insights to help you thrive in the rapi...

This applied program brings together professionals from across industries and sectors to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders and improve workplace health and safety through ergonomics. Ergonomics and Human Factors explores both the technical skills required to perform job assessments and the organizational factors which contribute to successful ergonomics programs. Participants will complete this program ready to control health and...

Learn to Add Value to Health Care with Health IT This advanced course brings together the diverse stakeholders impacted by health information technology – including CEOs, CIOs, physicians, nurses, informaticists, researchers, vendors, and academics – to ensure you receive an in-depth, applied understanding of the challenges and opportunities health IT presents. This unique continuing education course is designed for learners who wa...

As you move higher in your organization, the requirements for technical environmental health skills give way to requirements for management skills. You will need to develop clear goals and objectives that tie environmental health and safety outcomes to corporate goals, develop strategies to achieve these objectives, establish expectations, delegate to team members, and measure outcomes. In this course, you will develop the management skills ne...

Develop your capacity to identify and assess health risks posed by environmental hazards. This continuing education course explores the principles of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication, ensuring you can identify, explain, and make decisions about risks to public health. You will learn how risk analysis is done, how it is interpreted, and how it influences regulatory decision-making. This program will provide you with the...

Health care systems around the world are facing growing pressures to provide more effective care at lower costs. Health outcomes research assesses the end results of health care services, providing evidence for the value of specific medical treatments or interventions that can be used to make better decisions and improve health care. Measurement, Design, and Analysis Methods for Health Outcomes Research provides you with the language and conce...

Radiological Emergency Planning: Terrorism, Security, and Communication brings together leaders in radiation protection and emergency management to provide you with skills and strategies to effectively plan for radiological emergencies. As a participant, you will learn to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate the effects of radiological emergencies at the federal, state, local, or individual facility level. This program is unique in bringing t...

Improve employee health, safety, and security with applied industrial hygiene skills. You will benefit from a comprehensive introduction to industrial hygiene and gain skills to protect employees from workplace environmental hazards. This program is designed both for professionals with direct responsibility for industrial hygiene and for those managing the health and safety function. As a participant in this continuing education course, you wi...

This continuing education course provides you with the full set of skills needed to integrate occupational health and safety with health promotion programs. You will also learn to implement outcomes measurement programs and to assess the financial impact of integrated employee health programs, gaining the skills to make the business case for improving employee health. During the program, you will develop a roadmap for integrating your company...