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On the Case: Responding to an Urgent Need for Zika Training
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For a few minutes, travel back in time to January 2016. The mosquito-borne Zika virus spread across South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Brazil reported cases of infant microcephaly and other alarming pregnancy outcomes for women who had been infected. On January 15th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel […]
Training Highlights: The Zika Challenge, Evidence-Based Public Health, and Substance Use Management
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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This week’s installment of our PHLN Training Highlights series includes a recording of a successful, informative webinar about Zika virus outbreak management as well as an online training series exploring the concept of evidence-based public health, and an upcoming webinar about clinician consultation services for substance use management. Protecting the Public from Mosquito-borne Illnesses: The […]
Training Highlights: Sleep Quality, Child Food Insecurity, PHAB Accreditation, and More
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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This installment of the Public Health Learning Network’s Training Highlights series features a wealth of online training modules that examine topics ranging from community preparedness to promoting sleep quality among residents at long term care facilities to serving immigrant survivors of sexual and domestic violence. From Region I New England Public Health Training Center Community Preparedness: Awareness […]
Training Highlights: National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services, Performance Improvement for Health Departments, and More
This week’s highlighted resources include a listing of recommended courses for public health departments. Based on an initiative led by the University of Arizona, the process through which courses were rated and the development of the course list both illustrate the kind of products and services offered by the nation’s public health training centers. The National […]
Training Highlights: Three Summer Training Opportunities
The Public Health Learning Network invites you to explore three in-person summer training opportunities focused on improving access to culturally competent health care and building key skills in improving population health improvement and advancing public health practice. Culturally Responsive Health Care in Iowa From Region III Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center and the University of Iowa […]
The Public Health Learning Network Introduces a New Era of Public Health Training
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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To ensure the nation’s 500,000 public health professionals can respond rapidly to critical and ever-evolving needs, the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) at the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) has partnered with 10 Regional Public Health Training Centers (RPHTCs) and 40 local performance sites (LPS). The partnership represents a unified, […]
Training Highlights: Sodium Reduction, Food Systems, Behavioral Health, and Fetal Infant Mortality
This week’s highlighted public health training opportunities span the spectrum. The Public Health Learning Network invites you to explore public health’s collaborative role in supporting and strengthening food systems; learn about tools to support loved ones with behavioral health needs; and, examine how a wide array of social, economic, health, educational, environmental and safety issues relate to […]
The Public Health Training Center Network (PHTCN)
The Public Health Training Center Network The Public Health Training Center Network (PHTCN) is a consortium of regional Public Health Training Centers that collectively represent the nation’s most comprehensive resource for public health workforce development. With a unique blend of local relevance and national breadth, the PHTCN plays a vital role in building and sustaining […]
Public Health Reports (131, no. 2), Executive Perspective: HRSA’s Transformation of Public Health Training
Dr. Mary Beth Bigley, Director of the Division of Nursing and Public Health, Bureau of Health Workforce, at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and former acting editor in chief of Public Health Reports (the official journal of the U.S. Public Health Service) (PHR), describes HRSA’s work to help transform the way we train public health workers in the United States.
From the Public Health Learning Network: Training, Tools, and Resources to Help You Understand and Respond to the Zika Virus Outbreak
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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The Zika virus outbreak and its growing correlation with microcephaly, and other birth defects and neurological disorders, has caused concern around the world and here in the United States. Zika has also been linked to Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological condition leading to muscle weakness, permanent or temporary paralysis, and in some cases, death. And […]
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