CDC Grand Rounds Presents “Adolescence: Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness,” today, August 18, at 1 p.m. (EDT).

Join us today for the August session of Public Health Grand Rounds, titled “Adolescence: Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness.” This session will be available via live webcast from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia today, August 18, at 1 p.m. (EDT). Please note that the webcast link is only active during the date and time of the session, but all sessions are archived for future viewing.

Adolescence is a critical stage of development during which physical, intellectual, emotional, and psychological changes occur. While adolescence is a relatively healthy period of life, adolescents begin to make lifestyle choices and establish behaviors that affect both their current and future health. During this transition from childhood to adulthood, serious health and safety issues such as motor vehicle crashes, violence, substance use, and risky sexual behaviors can adversely affect adolescents and young adults. For instance, in 2013, over 1 in 5 reported current tobacco use, and among those sexually active, almost 2 out of 3 reported not using condoms regularly.

Parents have an important role in helping their adolescents stay healthy, but there are other influences on the choices adolescents make. Of the 42 million U.S. adolescents, age 10-19 years, 91% are enrolled in school, making schools and academic institutions an ideal place to foster lifelong healthy behaviors. Other community level interventions can also make the healthy choice the easy choice. Interventions that improve adolescent health care delivery are needed. Healthcare systems should continue to improve access to and use of clinical preventive services and provide opportunities for young patients to learn to manage their own health.

Please join us for this session of Grand Rounds as we explore adolescent health, specifically how families, community organizations, schools, and government agencies can work together to encourage adolescents to avoid risk and adopt health-promoting behaviors.

Future Grand Rounds topics include “Preventing Suicide: A Comprehensive Public Health Approach,” “Shifts in Global Health Security: Lessons from Ebola,” and “Electronic Cigarettes: Public Health Peril or Promise?”

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CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:

 “Adolescence: Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness”

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., EDT

Global Communications Center (Building 19)

Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium

Roybal Campus

Presented By:

Stephanie Zaza, MD, MPH

Captain, U.S. Public Health ServiceDirector, Division of Adolescent and School Health

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, CDC

“Adolescents in the United States” 

Patricia J. Dittus, PhD

Lead Behavioral Scientist, Social and Behavioral Research and Evaluation Branch

Division of STD Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, CDC

“Prevention for a Moving Target”

Shannon L. Michael, PhD, MPH

Health Scientist, School Health Branch

Division of Population Health

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC

“Schools as a Venue for Promoting Health and Wellness”

Claire D. Brindis, DrPH

Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy

Director, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Co-Project Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center

University of California, San Francisco

“Health Care for Adolescents: How to Improve It”

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

For CDC staff unable to attend the event:

The session will be available on IPTV and Envision.  To join by Envision, reserve a conference room and make the Envision request or use your local room scheduling process to schedule Envision.

For non-CDC staff interested in viewing the session:

A live external webcast will be available. For individuals who are unable to view the session during the scheduled time, the archived presentation will be posted 48 hours after each session. 

For non-CDC staff who wish to attend in person:

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 US state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, US 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 individuals 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 events. Employees are asked to submit RA requests at least 5 business days prior to the event. Please e-mail the request to grandrounds@cdc.gov.

Grand Rounds is available for Continuing Education.

ALL Continuing Education hours for Public Health Grand Rounds (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 WD2346 and will be available for continuing education until February 18, 2016.  The course code for PHGR is PHGR10.

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

Objectives: 

1. List key measures of burden of disease involving morbidity, mortality, and/or cost.
2. Describe evidence-based preventive interventions and the status of their implementations.
3. Identify one key prevention science research gap.
4. 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