2016 State Health Director's Conference

Thursday, January 21, 2016

7:00-8:00: Registration and Continental Breakfast  

8:00-8:15: Welcome: Randall Williams, MD, NC State Health Director and Deputy Secretary for Health Services, NC Department of Health and Human Services; Colleen Bridger, PhD, MPH, Health Director, Orange County Department of Public Health; President, NC Association of Local Health Directors

8:15-9:15: Public Health Forces of Change: Provider and Hospital Intersections with Public Health (YouTube video; 5:22); Governmental Public Health Enterprise Slide (PDF, 51 KB); LaMar Hasbrouck, MD, MPH, Executive Director, National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

9:15-10:15: Bridging Health and Healthcare: Strategies for Local Health Leaders (PDF, 5.1 MB); Brian C. Castrucci, MA, BA, Chief Program and Strategy Officer, deBeaumont Foundation

10:15 - 10:45: Move More Physical Activity Break; Lori Rhew, MA, PAPHS, NC Division of Public Health; Refreshments and Exhibitors Gallery; Tour BOOZE IT & LOSE IT BATMobile Unit

10:45-11:45: Outbreak of HIV and Hepatitis C Linked to Injection Drug Use in Rural Indiana (PDF, 1.7 MB); Pam Pontones, MA, Indiana State Epidemiologist, Indiana State Department of Health

11:45-12:00: Break, Transition to Luncheon and Exhibitors Gallery

12:00-1:30: Luncheon and Special Remarks; Rick Brajer, MBA, BS, Secretary, NC Department of Health and Human Services; Danny Staley, MS, Director, NC Division of Public Health, NC Department of Health and Human Services; Presentation of Awards from the Association of North Carolina Boards of Health; Presentation of Ronald H. Levine Legacy Award

1:45-2:45: Skill Building Sessions I

• Contracts and Reports Used by Local Health Departments (PDF, 337 KB); Ann Moore, Public Health Administrative Consultant; Kathy Brooks, Public Health Administrative Consultant
• Models for Integrating Public Health and Primary Care
  • Integrated Care: Transforming to Whole Person Care (PDF, 1.5 MB); Marilyn Pearson, MD, Johnston County Health Department
  • Public and Private Partnerships in Health Care: Past, Present, and Future (PDF, 891 KB); J. Mark Picton, MD, MPH
  • Transforming Public Health: Partnerships in the Provision of Services (PDF, 311 KB); Douglas W. Urland, Health Director Catawba County Public Health
• NC Violent Death Reporting System (NC-VDRS): Using Data Locally to Inform Prevention Efforts
  • Using Data Locally to Inform Prevention Efforts (PDF, 2.7 MB); Scott Proescholdbell, MPH, NC Division of Public Health
  • Assessing Awareness and Data Utilization of NC-VDRS (PDF, 1.1 MB); Eyerusalem Tessema, MPH Cand., UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  • Preventing Child Fatalities in North Carolina (PDF, 580 KB); Nicole Miller, BAS, NC Division of Public Health
• Community Health Assessment (Part 1) (PDF, 5.4 MB); Eleanor Howell, MS, NC Division of Public Health; Phyllis M. Rocco, MPH, BSN, RN, NC Division of Public Health; Gay G. Welsh, MPH, BSN, RN, NC Division of Public Health
• Sexual Violence Prevention and College Campuses: Where Have We Been, Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?
• Cancer Clusters: What is the Role of the NC Division of Public Health?
  • Epidemiology of Cancer Cluster Investigations (PDF, 45 KB); Annie Hirsch, MPH, CPH
  • Cancer Cluster Investigations: Local Perspectives (PDF, 456 KB); Stephen R. Keener, MD, MPH
  • Cluster Analysis at a Glance (PDF, 649 KB); Soundarya Radhakrishnan, MS, NC Division of Public Health

3:00-4:00: Skill Building Sessions 2

• Electronic Health Records and Scanning of Paper Records for Local Health Departments (PDF, 3.6 MB); Courtney Bailey, MSLS, State Archives of NC; Kurt Brenneman, MLS, State Archives of NC
• Building Healthier Communities: YMCAs as Community Health Partners
• Hepatitis C Epidemic
  • Hepatitis C in North Carolina: Two Epidemics with One Public Health Response (PDF, 354 KB); Sarah Rhea, DVM, PhD, North Carolina Division of Public Health
  • Hepatitis C Testing and Linkage to Care (PDF, 2.4 MB); Arlene C. Seña, MD, MPH, Medical and Laboratory Director, Durham County Department of Public Health; Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Community Health Assessment (Part 2) (PDF, 339 KB); Eleanor Howell, MS, NC Division of Public Health; Phyllis M. Rocco, MPH, BSN, RN, NC Division of Public Health; Gay G. Welsh, MPH, BSN, RN, NC Division of Public Health
• Purposeful Partnering: Engaging Minority Communities in the Programmatic Process (PDF, 3.2 MB); Cornell P. Wright, MPA, Executive Director, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
• Foodborne Botulism – A Public Health Emergency: Partnership in Action (PDF, 1.4 MB); Vanessa Greene, RN, NC Division of Public Health; Katie Overbey, BS, NC State University; Kipper Price, BSN, RN, Ashe County Health Department; Natalie Seymour, MS, BS, NC State University

4:15-5:15: Skill Building Workshops 3

• Billing Third Parties for Local Health Department Services (PDF, 337 KB); Ann Moore, Public Health Administrative Consultant; Kathy Brooks, Public Health Administrative Consultant
• “Say it like you mean it”…… Reframing Public Health Issues for Better Understanding and More Success (PDF, 1.7 MB); Ann Houston Staples, BA, MA, MCHES
• Emerging Infections (PDF, 4.2 MB); Zack Moore, MD, MPH, NC Division of Public Health; Carl Williams, DVM, DACVPM, NC Division of Public Health
• Changes in On-Site Permitting for 2016 (PDF, 548 KB); Steven Berkowitz, PE, NC Division of Public Health; Nancy Deal, MS, REHS, NC Division of Public Health; Kevin Neal, CPSS, NC Division of Public Health
• Using Technology to Provide Health Education: A Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Example
• Radon in Homes (PDF, 3.1 MB); Phillip Gibson, MS, NC Health Service Regulation Radiation Protection Section
  

Friday, January 22, 2016

6:30-7:00: Morning Walk

7:45-8:15: Continental Breakfast

8:15-9:15: Achieving 80% by 2018: Improving Colon Cancer Screening Rates in North Carolina; Richard Wender, MD, Chief Cancer Control Officer, American Cancer Society

9:15 - 10:15: What We Know About Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) (PDF, 4.1 MB); Brian King, PhD, MPH, Deputy Director for Research Translation, Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

10:15 - 10:45: Refreshment Break and Exhibitors' Gallery

10:45 - 11:45: The Ecological Context of Human Health Issues: From Trees to Bacteria to Human Hearts; Rob Dunn, PhD, Professor of Applied Ecology, NC State University

11:45 - 12:00: Conference Closing and Remarks

Danny Staley, MS, Director, NC Division of Public Health, NC Department of Health and Human Services