Continuing Education

North Carolina Institute for Public Health – Board of Health Training

Orientation
Welcome East Carolina University!
East Carolina University, in collaboration with The Eastern Area Health Education Center, has been awarded the contract to provide orientation and other training materials to boards of health and their members. They will provide face-to-face, on-site training supplemented by other learning formats including CDs and printed materials. The Association looks forward to working with ECU and Eastern AHEC.

For more information, please contact:

Ruth Little, MPH
Adjunct Assistant Professor
East Carolina University,
Brody School of Medicine
Division of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Hardy Building, 1709 W. Sixth Street
Greenville, NC 27834
littlena@ecu.edu
Telephone: (252) 744-4079 Fax: (252) 744-4008

Boards of Health Public Health Orientation (CD)
The North Carolina Institute for Public Health produced a CD that duplicates the onsite orientation training conducted in local health departments. Also included with the CD are handouts on core public health functions, essential services, roles and responsibilities.

If you would like to purchase a copy, please contact:

Do Kyung Self
Program Coordinator
North Carolina Institute for Public Health - Office of Continuing Education
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #8165
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
dkself@email.unc.edu
Phone (919) 843-8614
FAX (919) 966-5692

Protecting Your Public: The Environmental Health Orientation (DVD)
The Institute developed a two-disk DVD titled “Protecting Your Public: The Environmental Health Orientation”. Each 25-minute DVD is designed to introduce and explain the scope of work being done by environmental health specialists in the state of North Carolina. The two-disk set features interviews with local health directors, board of health members, environmental health specialists, environmental health supervisors and state officials.

The first disk begins with your board’s responsibilities including: an explanation of the responsibilities and legal requirements between the county and the state, how the county works with the state level programs, the requirements and preparation for the job, the scope of problems to which an environmental health specialist responds, the local board of health’s ability to initiate local ordinances and the board’s need to be prepared to deal with complaints and requests. It ends by focusing on the food and lodging program, food borne disease and outbreak investigation, and the on-site wastewater program.

The second disk examines local environmental health program responsibilities in: wells; facing public health emergencies; inspection of institutions, motels and hotels, swimming pools, and tattoo parlors; sanitation inspection of child day cares; lead poisoning investigations, remediation enforcement, and risk assessments; and methamphetamine labs.

If you would like to purchase a copy, please contact:

Rulemaking Authority: A Primer for Local Boards of Health (On-Line)
Rulemaking is an essential function of boards of health. The North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH) has partnered with the North Carolina Institute of Government to design and deliver a web-based module called The Board of Health Rulemaking Authority: A Primer for Local Boards of Health. This module was designed to familiarize board members with rulemaking, by answering some of the fundamental questions about board of health rules.

This training can be viewed by the entire board together as a group or by board members individually. For more information please refer to the Institute’s on-line site: www.sph.unc.edu/content/view/2801/2851/