Public Health Training, Research, and Evaluation for the Northwest
Hot Topics in Practice is a monthly webinar forum to discuss issues currently affecting public health practice.
Each month guest speakers from local, state, tribal, and national public health organizations present and take questions from the audience. Hot Topics is moderated by Sue Grinnell.
Below you may browse previous Hot Topics webinar sessions. All are available for viewing in PH LearnLink free of charge.
October 27, 2022. This Hot Topics webinar will review the framework of adaptive leadership with a focus on the health systems sector. Attendees will consider their past, current and future leadership challenges using this framework.
August 24, 2022. This Hot Topics webinar will share lessons learned from Public Health — Seattle & King County about injury and violence prevention policy when it comes to traffic, water, and firearm safety.
July 26, 2022. This Hot Topics webinar will share why abortion access is a public health issue and how Washington state has addressed it through a public health framework.
June 28, 2022. This Hot Topics webinar will share lessons learned from the heat dome and climate change by the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Oregon.
May 31, 2022. This Hot Topics webinar will share resources from the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) about how public health organizations can leverage opportunities and support to modernize and transform their public health practices.
The April session of Hot Topics in Practice will share how organizations can approach decolonizing data in an effort to address the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirited people (MMIWG2S).
This Hot Topics webinar will share how Oregon has taken a health-based approach to drug addiction and recovery with the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act (also known as Measure 110).
This Hot Topics webinar will share how public health professionals can identify, communicate about, and address health inequities in rural communities.
This Hot Topics webinar shares how organizations can help address racial bias using the “Racial Justice Competency Model for Public Health Professionals.”
This Hot Topics webinar reviews tips for developing more inclusive data practices that better represent the people behind the numbers.
This Hot Topics webinar explores the principles of communication framing to reduce the stigma of substance use and addiction.
This Hot Topics webinar considers strategies for preventing firearm injury in older adults with cognitive impairments.
This Hot Topics webinar considers successful strategies for COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Alaska.
This Hot Topics webinar considers how public health organizations can navigate change in the face of disclosed or undisclosed trauma experienced by staff.
This Hot Topics webinar reviews strategies and policy approaches for preventing adolescent intimate partner violence.
