TB Education and Training Network

TBETN

2018 Conference – Breaking Barriers to Achieve TB Elimination was held September 18-20 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • Tools for TB Electronic Directly Observed Therapy (eDOT)
  • Tools for Engaging and Educating Health Care Providers on Latent TB Infection (LTBI)
  • We Have the Data, How Do We Use it for Program Evaluation?
  • State and Local Program Evaluation Highlights
  • Health Literacy and Patient-Centered Health Education Materials
  • Communication Strategies During a TB Outbreak
  • Social Media and Social Listening Tools
  • Strengthening Your Evaluation: Intermediate Program Evaluation for State and Local TB Programs
  • How to Develop Online TB Trainings
  • How to Develop a TB Communications Campaign Using Social Media
  • TB Contact Investigation Education and Training Resources
  • Lessons Learned from CDC’s “Know Hepatitis B” Campaign and Community Partnerships to Reach Asian Americans: Implications for TB Control
  • Roundtable Discussions with CDC Program and Evaluation Consultants
  • TB Centers of Excellence for Training, Education, and Medical Consultation Highlights
  • Economic Costing of Video DOT Programs: DIY for Local Health Departments
  • Linking Care for Management of Immigrant, Refugee, and Other Non-US-Born Patients
  • LTBI Surveillance and Case Management
  • TB Nurse Training Strategies
  • Building Effective TB Partnerships
  • Designing Data Collection Instruments
  • Surveillance for Tuberculosis Elimination System (STEMS) Workshop
  • Personal TB Stories
  • How to Develop a Program Evaluation Section for the Annual Progress Report: Examples from State and Local TB Programs
  • Coalition Building to Promote LTBI Testing and Treatment

2016 Conference – Education and Evaluation: Driving Toward TB Elimination was held September 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • High Risk Factors for TB Disease and the Implications for TB Education and Program Evaluation
  • TB and Diabetes: Flipchart Development, Implementation, and Evaluation
  • TB and Smoking: How to Training TB Health Care Workers on Smoking Cessation Education
  • TB and Homelessness
  • TB and Corrections: The Corrections Project
  • Using Data to Inform Program Evaluation
  • Economic Evaluation
  • Project ECHO for TB Workforce Development
  • The Three Ps: Building Your Skills in Developing Presentations, Posters, and Pamphlets
  • Stop the Stigma: Eliminating Stigmatizing Language
  • How to Educate Policy Makers Using Data
  • Strategies for Successful Latent TB Infection Education
  • Engaging Private Providers in the TB Infection Journey
  • Latent TB Infection Surveillance
  • Video Directly Observed Therapy

2014 Conference – The Changing Landscape of TB was held September 16-18 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • The Changing Landscape of TB
  • Electronic Directly Observed Therapy (eDOT)
  • Effective Presentations
  • Fewer TB Cases/More Complex
  • Generational Differences in the Workplace
  • Contact Investigation
  • The Importance of Health Literacy
  • Promoting Your TB Program
  • The Affordable Care Act and Implications for TB Education, Training, and Evaluation

2012 Conference – Lights, Camera, Action: Setting the Stage for TB Elimination was held September 18-20 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • Setting the Stage for TB Elimination
  • Enlightening the Public and Partners
  • World TB Day Messages and Activities
  • Shining a Light on TB for Physicians
  • Enhancing a Cohort Review
  • Highlighting the Success of Working Together to Stop TB
  • Writing a Comprehensive TB Control Program Manual
  • Using Evaluation of TB Education and Training to Achieve Goals
  • Highlighting TB Patient Stories for TB Education
  • Creation of Video: TB on the Navajo Nation
  • Essentials for Making Websites Ready for Primetime
  • Addressing Cultural Myths about TB
  • Using and Evaluating Video DOT

2011 Conference – Waves of Change, Oceans of Opportunity, was held September 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • The Rapidly Changing Health Care System
  • Motivating Public Health Workers
  • Doing More with Less
  • Using Resourcefulness to Reach Communities
  • Using Health Literacy to Get Your Message Across
  • Cultural Competency for Health Education
  • Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization
  • How to Implement an Effective TB Education Intervention
  • New Technology Tools for TB Health Education
  • Webinars 101
  • Writing for the Web
  • Social Media

2010 Conference – TB Education and Training: Fitting the Pieces Together was held August 10-12 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • Partnerships: The Unusual Suspects
  • Program Collaboration and Service Integration: Implications for TB Elimination
  • Academic Partnerships
  • TB Lab Updates
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • TB Patients as Peer Educators
  • Specific TB Populations: Homeless and Substance Users
  • Empowering Partnerships with Power Tools
  • Risk Communication and Message Mapping
  • Education and Outreach Efforts to Increase Patient Adherence to LTBI Therapy
  • Best Practices for the Web

2009 Conference – TB Education and Training: Recipes for Success was held July 28-30 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • Recipe for Success: The Systematic Health Education Process
  • Risk Communication: Taking the Heat
  • Designing Effective Needs Assessment Tools
  • Using NTIP with Progress Reports
  • What’s Cooking in TB Updates and Resources for Educators and Trainers
  • Basics of Program Evaluation
  • Health Literacy
  • Program Evaluation Capacity Building
  • Using Audience Response Systems to Spice Up Your Training

2008 Conference – TB Education and Training: Going for the Gold was held August 5-7 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • Capacity Building and Forging Partnerships: A Winning Combination
  • Going for the Gold: Using the Systematic Health Education Process to Develop Education/Training Materials and Programs
  • Training Basics: Performance Enhancing Skills
  • Aim to Win: Steps for Conducting Field Tests and Focus Groups
  • Usability 101: Strategies for a Winning Website
  • The Evaluation Triathlon: Overview, Application and Instrument Design

2007 Conference – The Amazing Race to Eliminate TB: Education and Training Skills to Succeed was held August 7-9 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session topics:

  • Cultural Competency in TB Programs: It’s a journey, not a destination
  • Changes in Latitudes… Changes in Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs about TB in Refugee and Immigrant Populations
  • Mapping the Course: Using the Systematic Health Education Process to Develop Education/Training Materials
  • Using Education and Training Technology to Reach Your Destination
  • Life in the Fast Lane: Education, Training, and Communication During Outbreaks
  • Forming New Partnerships to Help You Cross the Finish Line

2006 Conference – TB Education and Training Magic: Tricks of the Trade was held August 15-17 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session topics:

  • Revealing the Illusion: The Systematic Approach to Health Education
  • Beyond the Crystal Ball: Tools for Assessing Your Audience
  • A Magical Mystery Tour of Training Basics
  • Hocus Pocus: How to Focus Your Health Promotion Materials
  • Using Evaluation, Not Fortune-Telling, to Plan and Improve TB Training

2005 Conference – Stepping Up Education and Training to Eliminate TB was held August 17-19 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session topics:

  • Choreographing your performance through the systematic health education process
  • Dancing with partners
  • Making a connection with your audience
  • Stepping back and looking at your performance through evaluation
  • Refining your performance through professional development
  • Setting the stage: Overview of cooperative agreement for training and education
  • Highlights from local areas

2004 Conference – TB Education and Training Survivor: Improving skills, building alliances, meeting challenges was held August 11-13 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics:

  • Planning and Strategy Development
  • Needs Assessment
  • Cultural Competency in TB Education and Training
  • Development/Adaptation of Materials
  • How Technology is Changing TB Education and Training
  • Highlights from local areas

2003 Conference – Oh, the Places TB Education Can Go… was held August 13-15 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics

  • Needs Assessment
  • Planning and Strategy Development
  • Intensive Development of Courses and Materials
  • Making Materials Appropriate to Your Audience
  • Communicating Late-Breaking Information
  • Doing Training and Education with Limited Resources

2002 Conference – Reaching Key Audiences through Innovative TB Education and Training Methods was held August 7-9 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics

  • Identifying and Partnering with your Education/Training Population
  • Assessing Education/Training Needs and Resources
  • Developing Innovative Educational Materials and Courses
  • Utilizing Technology to Develop Education and Training
  • Evaluating Education and Materials and Courses
  • Highlights from local areas

2001 Conference – Culture, Language, and Literacy in TB Education and Training was held August 1-3 in Atlanta, Georgia

Session Topics

  • A Conceptual Framework for Achieving Cultural Competence: Implications for TB ETN
  • Conducting Culturally Inclusive Needs Assessments
  • Creating Materials that are Appropriate and Easy to Read
  • Improving Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Accessing, Utilizing, and Disseminating Resources for Culturally Competent Health Care

If you would like additional information about the conferences, please send an e-mail to tbetn@cdc.gov