COVID-19 presents numerous challenges to the public health workforce, including fear, anxiety, potential burnout and stress, and a great deal of uncertainty. These challenges have an impact on an individual’s health and well-being, on our individual relationships, and on our work performance. This session will share strategies to build individual resilience as we continue to respond to COVID-19. Participants will leave the session with practical tools to prepare for the “next normal,” not the “new” normal, by committing to self-care, resilience, and adaptive leadership in the days and months ahead.

Learning objectives:

• Explain the healthy and unhealthy functions of anxiety, fear, and stress
• Describe three self-care skills to help address anxiety and uncertainty
• Apply resilience-building strategies to their professional experience in public health

Duration: 39 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.5 CECH for CHES

Format: Web-based training, Self Study

Originally Recorded: 08/2020

Presenter: Dr. Michael Fraser, CEO, ASTHO. 

Dr. Fraser is the chief executive officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the national nonprofit organization representing state and territorial leaders of public health agencies of the United States, the U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia, as well as the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, are dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy and to ensuring excellence in state‐based public health practice.Dr.Fraser is a dynamic leader in the health care and public health fields. Prior to joining ASTHO, he served as the executive vice president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Medical. Michael has been a distinguished leader in public health for over twenty years. He served as CEO of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) from 2007 to 2013; he was the deputy executive director of the National Association of County, and City Health Officials from 2002 to 2007and served in several capacities at the US Department of Health and Human Services, including positions at the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.