TB Education and Training Network

Past Conferences

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 – The 12th Annual TB ETN 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 – The 11th Annual TB ETN Conference, titled 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 – The Tenth Annual TB ETN Conference, titled TB Education and Training: Fitting the Pieces Together, was held August 10-12, 2010 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 – The Ninth Annual TB ETN Conference, titled TB Education and Training: Recipes for Success: was held July 28-30, 2009 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 – The Eighth Annual TB ETN Conference, titled TB Education and Training: Going for the Gold, was held August 5-7, 2008 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 – TB Education and Training Network’s Seventh Annual Conference, titledThe Amazing Race to Eliminate TB: Education and Training Skills to Succeed, was held August 7-9, 2007 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 Network’s Sixth Annual Conference entitled 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 – TB Education and Training Network’s Fifth Annual Conference entitled 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 Network’s Fourth Annual Conference entitled 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 – TB Education and Training Network’s Third Annual 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 – TB Education and Training Network’s Second Annual Meeting and Workshop: 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 – TB Education and Training Network’s First Annual Meeting and Workshop: Culture, Language, and Literacy in TB Education and Training was held August 1-3, 2001 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