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Region I New England Public Health Training Center

Mission Statement

The New England Public Health Training Center delivers a wide range of training programs and services that strengthen the public health workforce, particularly for New England’s medically underserved communities and populations. They work with partners to move the field to Public Health 3.0.

Vision and Impact

In the last grant year (2019-2020), NEPHTC provided or supported over 44,000 instances of training to the public health workforce across New England and the country, through hundreds of online enduring courses, webinars, workshops and coaching for public health teams. NEPTHC is a learning leader by acting as a strategic partner for our public health partners. Achievements in the past grant cycle include: nimble and innovative support of partners for rapid development during COVID, integration of multi-modality learning on core strategic skills in public health in Systems Thinking and Communications, and selection of Storytelling training for broadcast on the CDC Learning Connection, and selection of enduring trainings for use by public health organizations and initiatives across the country. In thought leadership, NEPTHC has invested significant resources in co-authoring, disseminating and testing the Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit, which facilitates deeper, more robust stages of learning that can increasingly impact systems change, with peers at five public health universities across the country. Enrollees in our trainings or programs include: Employees of local and state health departments; Nurses, with emphasis on School Nurses; Community Health Workers; Employees in Federally Qualified Health Centers; Health Educators; Environmental Health Professionals; Social Workers and Substance Abuse Counselors; other health professionals.

Competencies:
  • eLearning Production
  • Evaluation of Trainings
  • Expert Network and National Resources
  • Instructional Design
  • Learning Management Systems
  • Marketing Coordination
  • Systems Thinking
  • Webinar Support
  • Workforce Development
Community-Based Training Partners:
  • The Activist Lab at Boston University School of Public Health*
  • New Hampshire Public Health Association, NH
  • Local Public Health Institute of Massachusetts*
  • School Health Institute for Education and Leadership Development*
  • Rhode Island Department of Health Academic Center, RI
  • Center for Excellence in Health Innovation, University of New England, ME
  • The Vermont Public Health Institute/Vermont Public Health Association, VT
  • Office of Public Health Practice, Yale School of Public Health
  • Western Massachusetts Public Health Training Center at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences, MA
  • The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI)
  • Maine Public Health Association
  • Rhode Island Public Health Institute
  • Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center
  • Community Health Education Center, BPHC
  • *Central Office Training Partners
Expertise:
  • Advocacy
  • Communications
  • CHES
  • Community Health Workers
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Environmental Public Health
  • Local Public Health
  • Management
  • School Health
  • Systems Thinking
Community Served:
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Contact Information:
  • Boston University, School of Public Health, Activist Lab
     715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118
  • Karla Todd, NEPHTC Senior Program Manager and Training Specialist & Kathleen MacVarish, Associate Professor of the Practice, NEPHTC Principal Investigator
  • toddks@bu.edu
  • 617.358.4081

Connect with this organization:

Get in touch with Region I New England Public Health Training Center.

http://www.bu.edu/nephtc/
toddks@bu.edu

Blog posts contributed by this organization:

Learning Opportunity: Predicting Human Disease Risk from Animal-borne Pathogens
Learning Opportunity: Legislative Trends & Developments in Health Equity: What We Observed in 2021, What Has Happened in 2022, & Future Directions
Learning Opportunity: Talking Health: A New Way to Communicate About Public Health
Learning Opportunity: Race as a Social Construct in Data and Practice
Learning Opportunity: The History and Contemporary Reality of Black Communities in Maine

Resources contributed by this organization:

NEPHTC Systems Thinking Training for Public Health

This resource was created following New England Public Health Training Center efforts to make Systems Thinking training accessible and impactful for health departments and public health professionals. By providing a framework for identifying and addressing the underlying causes of complex problems, this approach minimizes responding to problem symptoms and the associated unintended consequences of quick […]

Public Health Learning Network Sessions and Posters at APHA Annual 2017 in Atlanta

Join the Public Health Learning Network at the 2017 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo in Atlanta. Find us in booth 716 and check this list of all of our sessions and posters at this year’s meeting.

Public Health Learning Network Sessions and Posters at APHA Annual 2016 in Denver

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