Effective TB Interviewing for Contact Investigation: Facilitator Led Training Guide 2006

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Resource List

The following resources and organizations can provide additional education and training information related to TB and other topics addressed in the TB interviewing educational materials:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE)
1600 Clifton Rd., NE
Mail Stop E-10< br />Atlanta, Georgia 30333
1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636)
http://www.cdc.gov/tb
The mission of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) is to provide leadership in preventing, controlling, and eventually eliminating tuberculosis (TB) from the United States, in collaboration with partners at the community, state, and international levels.

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd., NE
Mail Stop E-49
Atlanta, Georgia 30333
1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636)
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/
CDC's HIV mission is to prevent HIV infection and reduce the incidence of HIV-related illness and death, in collaboration with community, state, national, and international partners.

Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
1600 Clifton Rd., NE
Mail Stop E-02
Atlanta, Georgia 30329
1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636)
http://www.cdc.gov/std
The Division of STD Prevention provides national leadership through research, policy development, and support of effective services to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV infection) and their complications such as enhanced HIV transmission, infertility, adverse outcomes of pregnancy, and reproductive tract cancer.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
P.O. Box 6003
Rockville, MD 20849-6003
1-800-458-5231
http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/index.asp
The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). NPIN produces, collects, catalogs, processes, stocks, and disseminates materials and information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB to organizations and people working in those disease fields in local, state, national, and international settings.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) Tuberculosis and Education and Training Resource Guide
http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/tb/guide/toc.asp
The Tuberculosis Education and Training Resource Guide was developed as a cooperative effort between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) and the CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE).

TB Education and Training Resources Website
http://www.findtbresources.org
Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the TB Education and Training Resources Website includes a searchable, comprehensive database of materials from numerous national and international organizations.  At this “one-stop” site of TB education and training resources, you can find materials to suit your needs by selecting parameters such as language, target audience, and format.

Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination funds four Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers (RTMCCs). The primary purpose of each RTMCC is to

• provide training and technical assistance to increase human resource development in TB programs
• develop TB educational materials, and
• provide medical consultation to TB programs and medical providers.

 

Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center

3180 18th Street, Suite 101 San Francisco, CA 94110-2028 415-502-4600 (Phone) 415-502-4620 (Fax) tbcenter@nationaltbcenter.edu(E-mail) www.nationaltbcenter.edu (website)

 

Heartland National Tuberculosis Center

2303 SE Military Drive, San Antonio, TX 78223-3542 800-TEX-LUNG (800-839-5864) (Phone) 210-531-4500 (Fax) http://www.heartlandntbc.org (website)

 

Northeastern Regional Training and Medical Consultation Consortium

225 Warren Street Second Floor East Wing Newark, NJ 07103 973-972-3270 (Phone) 800-482-3627 (Toll-Free) 973-972-3268 (Fax) www.umdnj.edu/globaltb (website)

 

Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center

1329 SW 16th Street Room 5187 Gainesville, FL 32608 Mailing Address: PO Box 103600 Gainesville, FL 32610-3600 352-265-7682 (Phone) 352-265-7683 (Fax) http://sntc.medicine.ufl.edu/ (website)

 

Special Populations Resources

EthnoMed
http://www.ethnomed.org
EthnoMed is a joint project of the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and the Harborview Medical Center's Community House Calls Program.  EthnoMed is a website containing medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups. It contains information specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable to other geographic areas as well.

Office of Minority Health Resource Center
P.O. Box 37337
Washington, D.C. 20013-7337
800-444-6472
http://www.omhrc.gov
The mission of the Office of Minority Health is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities.

The Bureau of Primary Healthcare of the Health Resources and Services Administration
http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/quality/cultural.htm
The Bureau of Primary Healthcare exists to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate, high-quality, comprehensive, and coordinated primary and preventive care developed and implemented at the community level.  This site provides tools and resources aimed at cultural competency.

The Franois-Xavier Bagnoud Center
AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center
30 Bergen Street
PO Box 1709
Newark, NJ 07101-1709
973-972-0410 / 1-800-362-0071
http://www.aidsetc.org
The AIDS Education and Training Centers National Resource Center works to increases the number of healthcare providers who are effectively educated and motivated to counsel, diagnose, treat, and medically manage individuals with HIV infection, and prevent high-risk behaviors that lead to HIV transmission.

The Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) Clinical Education Program
P.O. Box 164285
Austin, TX 78716
(512) 327-2017
http://www.migrantclinician.org 
The Migrant Clinicians Network is committed to providing high-quality continuing education to healthcare providers serving migrant farmworkers.  MCN's comprehensive clinical education program helps to develop excellence in practice, clinical leadership, and dissemination of best models and practices.