CDC - Grand Rounds

CDC - Grand Rounds

Public Health Grand Rounds

The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly webcast created to foster discussion on major public health issues. Each session focuses on key challenges related to a specific health topic, and explores cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The Grand Rounds sessions also highlight how CDC and its partners are already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.

Next Grand Rounds Presentation:

Childhood Immunization as a Tool to Address Health Disparities

Tuesday, April 16, at 1 p.m. - 2 p.m., EDT
This session of Grand Rounds will examine how immunization has helped reduce infectious disease disparities among U.S. children, reducing infectious disease burdens in children from racial/ethnic populations, and how immunization has, as a result, contributed to health equity.
Vaccines protect both the people who receive them and those with whom they come in contact. Vaccines are responsible for the control of many infectious diseases that were once common in the US and around the world. Vaccine-preventable diseases have a costly impact, resulting in doctor's visits, hospitalizations, and premature deaths. More information.
Future Grand Rounds topics include hypertension, youth violence, and cancer screening
Watch the live webcast with a broadband or slower connection. Note: The webcast links are only active during the date and time of the session, but all sessions are archived for future viewing.

Free Continuing Education Opportunities

Receive free training and continuing education opportunities/contact hours for watching broadcasts of Public Health Grand Rounds. The course code for PHGR is PHGR10. Thirty days from the initial session the course number will change to WD1640 and will be available for continuing education for two years after initial presentation date.
Registration is not required to watch the live webcast of Grand Rounds; however, you must register for continuing education.
After you have registered, look for Grand Rounds under the “CDC Courses” link under “Search and Register

." For technical issues regarding Continuing Education and CDC Grand Rounds, please email ce@cdc.gov

Upcoming Public Health Grand Rounds Topics

• Teen Pregnancy – March 19, 2013
• Immunization – April 16, 2013

Join us today for the April session of CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds, “Childhood Immunization as a Tool to Address Health Disparities.” This session will be available via live webcast from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, April 16 at 1 p.m. (EDT) at http://www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds/. The webcast link is only active during the date and time of the session, but all sessions are archived for future viewing.

One of the challenges for public health in the 21st is reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities, domestically and globally. Infectious diseases in childhood can lead to complications, disability, and death.  Protecting all children from vaccine-preventable diseases is a public health mandate, requiring the elimination of disparities that put some children at higher risk.  Childhood immunization is a proven public health intervention that protects our nation and our children. 

This session of Grand Rounds explores ways that immunization efforts have served to reduce disparities in childhood infectious diseases, demonstrating an effective and cost-effective tool for advancing health equity.  Vaccines protect both the people who receive them and those with whom they come in contact. Vaccines are responsible for the control of many infectious diseases that were once common in the United States and around the world. Vaccine-preventable diseases have a costly impact, resulting from doctor’s visits, hospitalizations, and premature deaths.

Join us to learn about how immunization programs have positively affected children’s health, as we explore public health, clinical, and policy implications of vaccinating children.

Tentative future Grand Rounds topics include hypertension, youth violence, and cancer screening.

Email your questions about this topic before or during the session. Follow us on Twitter #cdcgrandrounds


Presented By:

Chesley Richards, MD, MPH 
Director, Immunization Services Division
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
“US Immunization Program: Successful Reduction in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Vaccination Coverage Among Young Children”

Trudy Murphy, MD
Team Lead, Vaccine Research and Policy
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD & TB Prevention, CDC
“Progress toward Eliminating Hepatitis A Disease in the United States”

Tom Hennessy, MD, MPH 
Director, Arctic Investigations Program, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC 
“Use of Vaccines to Reduce Health Disparities Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children”

Alan Hinman, MD, MPH
Director for Programs, Center for Vaccine Equity
The Task Force for Global Health
“Immunization as a Path to Equity”

Facilitated By:

Tanja Popovic, MD, PhD, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
John Iskander, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds

For non-CDC staff or those outside of the CDC firewall:
 
A live external webcast will be available. Presentations are archived and posted 48 hours after each session. Due to security measures at CDC’s Roybal campus, non-CDC staff who wish to attend these sessions in person must have prior clearance and a U.S. state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, U.S. passport).

Names of non-CDC staff (both domestic and international) should be submitted to the Grand Rounds Team. Please note that all information for international visitors must be submitted at least 10 days in advance.

For CDC staff requiring reasonable accommodations:

It is the policy of CDC to provide reasonable accommodations (RA) for qualified individuals with disabilities to ensure their full inclusion in CDC-sponsored training events.  Employees are asked to submit RA requests at least two weeks prior to the training event.  Please e-mail the request to grandrounds@cdc.gov.Grand Rounds is available for Continuing Education.

ALL Continuing Education hours for PHGR are issued online through the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online system. If you have questions, e-mail or call Learner Support at 1-800-418-7246 (1-800-41TRAIN).

Those who attend PHGR either in person, Envision, IPTV, or “web on demand” and who wish to receive Continuing Education must complete the online seminar evaluation. Thirty days from the initial seminar the course number will change to WD1640 and will be available for continuing education until January 21, 2014. The course code for PHGR is PHGR10.

Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, pharmacists, veterinarians, certified health education specialists, laboratorians, others

Objectives: 

List key measures of burden of disease involving morbidity, mortality, and/or cost.
Describe evidence-based preventive interventions and the status of their implementations.
Identify one key prevention science research gap.
Name one key indicator by which progress and meeting prevention goals is measured.

CE certificates can be printed from your computer immediately upon completion of your online evaluation. A cumulative transcript of all CDC/ATSDR CE’s obtained through the TCE Online System will be maintained for each user. We hope that this will assist CDC staff and other public health professionals to fulfill the requirements for their professional licenses and certificates.

Learn more about continuing education on the Grand Rounds website.