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Annotation: In this webinar, authors discuss their article titled Improving Health Care Transitions for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. Speakers highlight the health care transition process for adolescents and young adults with special health care needs, describe study findings, and reflect on the implications of their recommendations.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the health care transition process for adolescents and young adults with special health care needs. • Explore the study findings and implications of results from the presented article: Improving Health Care Transitions for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs.

Annotation: Improvement in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) depends largely on successful clinical and non-clinical research. Success in clinical research conducted by developmental-behavioral pediatricians and other MCH professionals can be enhanced through the application of theory and utilization of conceptual models to guide study design.

Learning Objectives: • Gain expertise in developing conceptual models based on theory, evidence and clinical experience; • Utilize conceptual models as a foundation for formulation of testable hypotheses; and • Apply conceptual models to study design.

Annotation: Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician, public health leader, and a passionate advocate for patient-centered health care reform. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University School of Public Health, where she is also the Distinguished Fellow at the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute of Health Workforce Equity. She has also served as President/CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Dr. Wen spoke with Leonard Marcus, founding Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Learning Objectives: • Learn about prejudice and stigma. • Discuss issues around access to healthcare. • Define meta leadership. • Explore opportunities for public health.

Annotation: This webinar examines the gaps in research on women’s health. Specifically, this video talks about the social determinants of central nervous system dysfunction and the role of residential segregation based on research from HIV populations.

Learning Objectives: • List the four identified key observations • Explain the effects of various kinds of residential isolation • Describe the conceptual model of social determinants on CNS dysfunction • Understand the role of mental health disorders on women’s health, especially in HIV populations

Annotation: Family engagement requires a top-down, bottom-up approach where their input permeates the culture of systems, organizations, and programs. Positive outcomes are more likely to be achieved when family engagement is systemic, integrated and comprehensive. Being strategic in how families interact can improve the effectiveness of service delivery in the mental health system. Please watch this recording on Strengthening Systems, Services and Communities for Family Engagement and Leadership.

Learning Objectives: • Identify core principles for meaningfully engaging families. • Learn evidence informed practices for engaging families in child/youth mental health care. • Explore methods for engaging, supporting and retaining family experience and expertise in three key arenas.

Annotation: Through recorded oral interviews, this project documents the unique paths and trajectories of MCH leaders in public health academe and their relationship with the larger public health Maternal and Child Health enterprise including Title V. Specific topics discussed include: the challenges and concerns associated with becoming an MCH academic leader; factors associated with their success; and the wisdom that these senior leaders can provide to young academics interested in the field of Maternal and Child Health. The hope is that preserving the stories and sharing the wisdom of senior MCH academic leaders will inspire the development and success of multiple generations of faculty leaders in MCH public health academe. These interviews provide real-life examples of Competency 9: Developing Others Through Teaching, Coaching, and Mentoring.

Annotation: This training toolkit focuses on learning opportunities and practical tools for use by the Title V workforce in understanding and implementing needs assessment, including community partnerships, data, program monitoring and evaluation, policy analysis, and principles of public health. It was developed by a collaboration of the National MCH Workforce Development Center, AMCHP, and the MCH Navigator.

Annotation: Navigating complex systems of care is a struggle for children and youth with special health care needs and their families. Current approaches to improve the process overlooks families’ personal and community assets. A network science approach can demonstrate how to develop person-centered care navigation, coordination, and referrals for families in healthcare and community-based settings.

Learning Objectives: • Discover how the science of networks provides a unique lens to strengthen systems of care. • Explore applications of network science approaches within healthcare settings as a mechanism to transform practice and health outcomes.

Annotation: This talk focuses on how public health and preventive medical scientists, as well as developmental and reproductive toxicologists, interpret and apply life course health developmental principles, with an emphasis on the first four principles of the Life Course Health Development (LCHD) framework (Health Development, Unfolding, Complexity, and Timing). The focus of this talk is on early development and childhood.

Learning Objectives: 1. Identifying how systems biology concepts inform public health decisions for improving health development 2. Defining the life course “exposome” taking lessons from a child cohort study 3. Discussing approaches for improving our understanding of within and between human variability across development using evolutionary biology principles 4. Applying ontologies for linking and translating observations across model systems and biomarkers for informing human population research 5. Understanding how integrating systems biology concepts improves our health surveillance and intervention

Annotation: In this webinar, Drs. Halfon and Forrest present the 7 principles that comprise their life course health development framework, including the empirical evidence that underlies each principle and the implications for future research. By shining a light on how early experience conditions future biological responses and influences health development pathways, the presenters hope to encourage theory building and testing, inspire innovative transdisciplinary research, and lead to future discussions that can help to mature the framework into a scientific model with descriptive, explanatory, and predictive utility.

Learning Objectives: • Introduce the Handbook of Life Course Health Development • Describe the emergence and maturation the Life Course Health Development (LCHD) Framework • Develop an understanding of each of the seven LCHD principles