Serving Rural Nevada: An Introduction to the Rural County Health Officer Position
Created by the Nevada Public Health Institute
This online, self-paced training is designed to provide current and newly appointed county health officers with the knowledge, resources, and skills to be successful in the position. This training will provide an overview of the county health officer position and the Nevada public health system; strategies to engage the local board of health; and tools to effectively communicate with the community.
Community Building for Environmental Justice
Presented by Rachel Kiser, MPH, Melissa Garcia, and Gerold Dermid, MBA.
This panel presentation provides an overview of environmental justice and its connection to community building and positive health outcomes. Participants will learn about two projects addressing environmental justice needs in communities in Texas and Nevada with implications for research and practice. The session will also provide insights from WEST EJ, a regional technical assistance and capacity-building provider of the EPA, that assists with community action on environmental justice issues through opportunities for community-responsive projects and grants. VIEW HERE
Creating Boards of Health
Created by the Western Regional Public Health Training Center
This toolkit is designed to introduce new and existing local board of health (LBOH) members to the nature of public health practice, and what role they can play in improving their community's health. This series of short videos will introduce LBOH members to various topics, and then suggest additional resources they may access for more information. The topics covered here include:
Transforming Narratives in Public Health
Presented by Liz Amaya-Fernandez, MPH and Rachel Kiser, MPH
The Nevada Public Health Institute (NPHI) has received funding from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps to strengthen state networks through strategic partnerships. This funding begins discussions in transformative narratives to address health equity in rural Nevada. Narratives are the values-based themes of stories that we use to understand our world. A narrative communicates and reinforces a worldview and engages people in considering their own understanding of the world. Just what are narratives? How are they created? Why is it important to transform them?
County Health Rankings
Presented by John Packham, PhD
The County Rankings provide a snapshot of local health data that demonstrate where people live influences how well they live and how long they live. The Rankings allow each state to see how its counties compare on a range of factors that influence health, including education, access to health and mental health care, the physical environment, social and economic factors, smoking, access to healthy foods and more. In 2024, seven new actionable measures were introduced for local communities to consider.
Bringing Voices to the State Capitol
Presented by Kat DeBurgh, MPH
The Health Officer Association of California (HOAC) represents the physician health officers appointed by the local governments in California’s 58 county and 3 city health jurisdictions. California’s health officers are involved in every aspect of public health in California, and so is HOAC, as it fulfills its core mission to optimize the impact of health officers to improve health and well-being for all.
Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Fatal Opioid Overdoses
- Describe basic trends in opioid overdose death rates at the national and local level.
- Identify factors that elevate patients'/clients' risk for opioid overdose.
- Understand how overdose education/naloxone distribution programs impact health outcomes.
- Develop a preliminary plan for integrating overdose education into existing services.
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