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Training Highlights: Emergency Preparedness and the Law, Public Health Modernization, Community Health Workers Into a Community Health Center, and Health Equity for LGBTQ Communities
- By: Nicole Waller
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights series brings us an online course on legal aspects of public health preparedness, a presentation on modernizing public health, a live session on including community health workers in healthcare, and a 6-session blended learning course on increasing health equity for LGBTQ communities. From Region 10: Northwest Public Health Training Center […]
Training Highlights: Fatality Preparedness and Response, Constructive Feedback, and Youth Populations at Risk
- By: Nicole Waller
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This week, learners have the opportunity to complete trainings and attend webinars by the Public Health Learning Network on managing mass fatalities, navigating feedback dynamics, and addressing needs of vulnerable youth populations. Mass Fatality Management: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Preparedness and Response From: Region 10: Northwest Public Health Training Center (University of Washington) In this […]
Training Highlights: Unconscious Bias, Disaster Impact, Housing Construction and Health Disparities, Health Equity Through Budgets
- By: Nicole Waller
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Join the PHLN this week in attending these four eLearning opportunities. We are highlighting a live webinar on unconscious bias, an on-demand course on psychological effects of disaster, a live session on health disparities in vulnerable populations, and a webinar on using budgets to support health equity. Unconscious Bias: Do I Have the Tools to […]
Training Highlights: Data for Non-Statisticians, Transgender Care Competency, Substance Use Disorders
- By: Nicole Waller
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This week, we are highlighting a live training on using data as a non-statistician, a live presentation on becoming culturally competent in working with transgender individuals, and an on-demand webcast on Medication Assisted Treatment. Big Data, Big Headache: How Non-Statisticians Can Approach and Use Data for Performance Management From: Region 10: Northwest Public Health Training […]
Training Highlights: Hurricane and Disaster Recovery Trainings
- By: Nicole Waller
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As recovery efforts are underway in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the NCCPHT is highlighting these Hurricane and Disaster Recovery Trainings in this special edition of Training Highlights. If your center has any trainings related to the topics above that would benefit professionals or the public in areas that have been affected by […]
When 10,000 Public Health Professionals Speak Up
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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PH WINS Reveals Much About Our Workforce & Professional Lives Now there’s a timely, one-of-its-kind data set that can generate specific insights into the national public health workforce from state health agency frontline professionals. In 2014, more than 10,000 workers from governmental public health agencies across the United States participated in the Public Health Workforce […]
Announcements: Kicking Off Work on the Learning Navigator, PHLN at APHA and More!
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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Check out our Summer/Fall list of featured news, accomplishments and updates about strategic initiatives from the Public Health Learning Network. The Learning Navigator is Coming. Get Involved in Two Key Ways. The Public Health Learning Navigator is coming in May of 2018. Find out more about this curated experience to help learners navigate to high-quality online […]
Three Public Health Training Needs Rise to the Top
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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You might be surprised at the diversity of professionals who are on the front lines of public health practice without formal education and experience in the field. In fact, local librarians increasingly find themselves stretched beyond traditional responsibilities like providing information access, programming, and instruction on information literacy. Librarians are now entering unchartered waters in the […]
Western Region Public Health Training Center Partners with Researchers to Implement Stock Inhaler Program in Arizona Schools
- By: Multiple Authors
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The prevalence of asthma in children makes it the most common chronic pediatric condition. Considering most days in a child’s life are spent at school, lacking access to inhalers during asthma emergencies is disconcerting. The Region IX – Western Region Public Health Training Center (WRPHTC) partnered with University of Arizona researchers to tackle this public health issue […]
The Public Health Learning Network in Action
- By: Jennifer Edwards, Ph.D
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The U.S. Public Health Training Center Program includes 10 university-based regional public health training centers (PHTCs) and 40 local training sites, which belong to the Public Health Learning Network (PHLN). In its third year as a network, the PHLN continues to fulfill legislative requirements to assess the training needs of our nation’s health workforce, advance […]
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