Trainings Featured in Fall 2016 Elevate, Your Resource for Lifelong Learning
Training Highlights: Water Wells, Cancer Control, Dietary Assessment Methods
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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The topics of this week’s highlighted trainings include water well safety, cancer epidemiology and prevention, and dietary assessments in community nutrition programs. From: Local Public Health Institute of Massachusetts (NEPHTC) Private Wells in Connecticut Join the NEPHTC for a live webcast at 12 PM ET. Did you know there are an estimated 322,500 private wells […]
Training Highlights: Preventing Childhood Injury, Local Food in Hospitals.
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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This week, we highlight a live webinar about childhood and young adult injury and violence, as well as a course on what role hospitals can play in promoting a healthy and local food system. Understanding and Preventing Childhood Deaths and Injuries From: Northwest Public Health Training Center In this one-hour webinar on Tuesday, December 13, […]
Training Highlights: Sexual Orientation Substance Use Disparities for Youth, HRSA Town Hall, Financial Success
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights series brings us a live webinar on health disparities for sexual minority youth, a Town Hall discussion from HRSA, and an online course about responding effectively to funding opportunities. Structural Factors and Sexual Orientation Health Disparities in Adolescent Substance Use: A Multi-level Analysis From: Region 2 Public Health […]
Our Public Health Network Continues to Lift Up Humanity
- By: Vincent Lafronza, EdD, MS
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The 2016 election cycle reminds us just how contentious democratic processes can be, and historians and political scientists will study November’s election for years to come. Moving into 2017 and beyond, we will have to navigate the challenges related to the new administration’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, to diverge from […]
Training Highlights: Needs Assessment, Community Recovery, Food Security
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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The topics of this week’s highlighted trainings range from public health training needs assessment, how to implement a community recovery model, and strategies for improving community food security within a local food system via school gardens. Take the Data and Run: Applying New Training Survey Results in Your Organization From: Northwest Center for Public Health […]
Training Highlights: Quality Improvement, Nutrition Across the Lifespan, and the ACA
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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This week, we are showcasing a quality improvement webinar specific to maternal and child health, a training series for building strategies in addressing nutrition across the lifespan, and an online course devoted to illuminating the impact of the Affordable Care Act on local public health. The Learning Collaborative Approach to Quality Improvement and Medical Home […]
Training Highlights: Population Health, Informatics, and Emergency Preparedness
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights series brings us a live class on creating positive change in population health, weighing opportunity versus challenges in public health informatics, and an emergency preparedness leadership series. Population Health: Finding Common Ground To Create Positive Change From: University of Iowa College of Public Health For those in the Iowa City […]
Training Highlights: Leadership Skills, STI Testing, and Population Health
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights series brings us a live skill-building session for leadership, latest findings and implications in the field of STI/HIV testing, and a “Population Health 101” introduction class. Guiding and Leading Health Professionals: Skills Useful for Leadership and Re-Organization From: Region IX Local Performance Site Join us on Friday, November 18th at 4:00-5:30 PM […]
Beyond Training for Health Equity
- By: Multiple Authors
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People gravitate toward careers in public health research and practice for a reason—to help their communities in concrete and enduring ways. With that strong commitment to “doing good,” we persevere in the face of shrinking funding, lacking resources, sharp-edged politics, and mountainous bureaucracy. The growing and vibrant movement to stem health inequities is a manifestation of […]
Challenging Food Insecurity in the Desert Southwest
- By: Multiple Authors
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“You are what you eat.” The statement has long been circulating in the public consciousness, but it takes on a new meaning through a health equity lens. Public health has become increasingly concerned about the number of people who lack access to sufficient or nutritious food due to physical, social, and economic factors. This […]
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