Regional Spotlight: Addressing the Injury and Violence Mismatch in Region X
Partnering with Local Health Departments to Advance Health Equity
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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At this year’s National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Meeting, the Public Health Learning Network (PHLN) shared thoughts about the role of public health training centers in making health equity a reality. Learn more about NACCHO Annual Sharing Session 18, “How local public health departments can partner with regional public health training […]
Can an Activist Lab Transform Public Health Practice?
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It’s 3:00 on a hot summer afternoon in downtown Boston. The sidewalks are full of sightseers, working people on their coffee breaks, and people rushing to meetings or appointments. Almost everyone is carrying a cold drink to battle the heat. A man hands a woman a bottle of water, and they stop to chat. […]
Florida Institutions Collaboratively Address Health Equity through Research and Training
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In the late nineties, Dr. Cynthia Harris, Director of the Institute of Public Health at Florida A&M University, found herself thinking about what health equity might look like in Florida. She saw urgency in addressing equity in the public health and health care fields—in her state and across the nation. But “health equity” wasn’t […]
Trainings Featured in Fall 2016 Elevate, Your Resource for Lifelong Learning
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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For the fall issue of Elevate, we’ve curated and highlighted a few of the PHLN’s online and in-person trainings on health disparities, the social determinants of health, and more. Moving Public Health Practice Upstream: A Case Study on the Minimum Wage This module details how raising the minimum wage is a public health issue and provides […]
Fall 2016 Announcements from the Public Health Learning Network
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This fall’s announcements from the Public Health Learning Network and partners include an invitation to join us at the 2016 American Public Health Association Annual (APHA) Meeting and Expo and a heads-up about a newly published resource to help facilitate the integration of primary care and public health at the local level. Check out […]
Training Highlights: Public Health Marketing, Mental Resilience, and American Indian and Alaska Native Food Access
- By: The Public Health Learning Network
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This week’s list of highlighted training courses features courses on public health marketing, mental resilience among community health workers, substance use disorders, and healthy food access and choices among American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Marketing Public Health From Region I New England Public Health Training Center This course offers concrete strategies for communicating with public […]
Check Out the “Roadmaps to Health Action Center” from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Program
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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Did you know that Roadmaps to Health Coaching provides local leaders with direct support to strengthen their capacity to build a Culture of Health in towns, cities, and neighborhoods across the United States? Community coaching is part of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program, a collaborative project between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) […]
Training Highlights: Public Health and Shale and Cultural Competency
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights showcases the beginning of a biweekly series on innovative approaches, starting off with a discussion of the public health solutions to shale development and a webinar on the importance of cultural competency in both public health and the health care workforce. Collaborative Public Health Solutions to Shale Development From Region […]
Training Highlights: Shaping Organizational Culture, Evidence-based Treatment Options, and Environmental Public Health
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights series includes a soon-to-air webcast on the merits of medication assisted treatment, a set of modules on environmental public health, and a webinar on the role of leaders in shaping organizational culture. Shaping Organizational Culture: The Role of Leaders From Region IV Public Health Training Center Leaders in […]
Web Forum Recap: How the Public Health Learning Network is Preparing the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow
- By: Mikhaila Richards, MS
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Finding online training is easy. Finding the right training can be tough. The breadth of training options, spanning dozens of websites vying to answer the most pressing and relevant public health questions, makes the process challenging. And, while multiple funders and organizations support online training, these systems and services are not yet fully coordinated. What’s […]
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