NNPHI’s National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) is advancing capacity building, increased competency and performance improvement of the nation’s current and future public health workforce.
The National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) designs, delivers, and scales evidence-informed training and capacity-building initiatives that address real-world challenges and priorities. With deep expertise in public health systems and infrastructure, NCCPHT leads efforts that promote health equity, advance performance improvement, and enhance cross-sector collaboration through high quality training, positioning NCCPHT as a responsive and reliable anchor in the evolving public health landscape.
NCCPHT utilizes a hub-and-spoke model, with NCCPHT as the central hub providing infrastructure, subject matter expertise, and communication platforms to support a network of partners (the spokes), including public health institutes, regional training centers, and other implementation partners. This approach enables us to rapidly efficiently deploy training and technical assistance, promote consistency across jurisdictions, and scale innovative practices nationally while remaining responsive to local context.
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NCCPHT designs and manages training programs that align with nationally recognized public health competencies. Our offerings include asynchronous courses, structured learning pathways through the Public Health Learning Navigator, and interactive series such as the Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) for Public Health programs. These trainings are tailored to meet the evolving needs of all public health professionals across various disciplines. We collaborate with subject matter experts and partner organizations to ensure content relevance and effectiveness.
NCCPHT facilitates the development of sustainable public health systems by supporting the infrastructure and workforce of health departments and related organizations. We provide technical assistance, strategic planning, and program design support to enhance organizational capabilities. Our approach includes fostering peer learning networks and communities of practice that promote knowledge exchange and collaboration among public health professionals.
NCCPHT supports performance improvement by equipping the public health workforce with the knowledge, tools, and strategies needed to drive measurable progress across programs and systems. Our team integrates performance improvement principles into training and technical assistance efforts, helping organizations strengthen their quality improvement practices, implement performance management frameworks, and align efforts with national standards such as PHAB accreditation. Through initiatives like the Public Health Improvement Training program, we help health departments assess organizational capacity, develop improvement plans, and build internal systems to monitor progress and demonstrate impact. NCCPHT also fosters peer learning environments like communities of practice and national convenings that allow practitioners to share effective practices, troubleshoot challenges, and advance a culture of continuous improvement.
A national convening providing public health professionals with hands-on training in performance improvement, strategic planning, and quality improvement, supporting agencies in achieving public health accreditation and improving health outcomes.
This curated, peer-reviewed learning management platform offers high-quality, competency-based training resources for the public health workforce. NCCPHT manages the Navigator to ensure public health professionals have access to effective and relevant learning opportunities aligned with workforce development goals.
Bringing together nationwide public health professionals, practitioners and partners to advance performance improvement, systems transformation and workforce innovation. Open Forum offers space for participants to engage with emerging strategies, share promising practices and co-create solutions to complex public health challenges.
As a lead technical assistance provider for the grant’s workforce component, NCCPHT supports health departments and partners nationwide in strengthening workforce infrastructure, including conducting workforce assessments, supporting implementation of workforce development strategies and coordinating with national partners.
NCCPHT is an innovative ECHO Superhub that adapts the ECHO model to address complex public health challenges through an equity lens. NCCPHT hosts ECHO series, offers ECHO management services for partner organizations, conducts partner launch trainings, and provides ongoing technical assistance and support for the Project ECHO for Public Health network.
Elevate is an NCCPHT publication that shares information about training, approaches, and resources related to public health practice and population health improvement. Elevate features relevant issues across the field, applying practical examples from the workforce in a readable format for life-long learning in public health.
