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When 10,000 Public Health Professionals Speak Up
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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!
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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
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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
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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 […]
Student Stars are Shining Lights on Public Health
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Among their many aims, goals, and responsibilities, the Public Health Learning Network’s (PHLN) 10 regional public health training centers are committed to establishing and strengthening field placements for students in public or nonprofit private health agencies or organizations. Each training center provides field placement stipends of $1,500 to 20 students each year. Placements offer structured opportunities […]
How the Framing of “Mental Health” Affects Strategies for Action at the Population Level
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During the 2016 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo, the APHA Mental Health Section partnered with national public health organizations to produce a roundtable that explored “behavioral health as a public health strategy.” This event drew directors of state and local health departments, and thought and practice leaders from national behavioral health organizations. […]
Transgender Health Equity: Resilience and Support in Public Health and Beyond
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Imagine you are planning a trip next week. The drive will be long, crossing several state borders. The route passes through communities where, you’ve experienced, many folks don’t understand people like you. The key question is: which city and state will let you use the restroom safely? You are a transgender woman. The mental isolation […]
From the Public Health Learning Network: Winter Resources and Announcements
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Announcements This winter’s announcements from the Public Health Learning Network include invitations to meet the Public Health Learning Network (PHLN) at the 2017 NNPHI Annual Conference, the National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH), and the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Expo. We also invite you to access a new course guide […]
The Public Health Learning Navigator: Preparing the Public Health Workforce of Today and Tomorrow
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“Finding online training is easy. Finding the right training is tough.” Last year, we mentioned that we had partnered with Georgetown University’s National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health to conduct an extensive review of more than seventy online training delivery systems. In our Winter 2017 Issue of Elevate, we are pleased to […]