Springboard to Active Schools Data Brief: Keep Recess in Schools

On average, Americans spend about a third of their lives at work. For some, that means one-third of your day and life you feel out of place and try to keep up a facade of who you think you should be. A recent Better Up study found that when employees feel a sense of belonging, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic brought extraordinary new challenges to all levels of the health workforce. For healthcare leaders, challenges related to staffing shortages, budget cuts, masking and vaccine mandates, and “the great resignation” from public health has significantly increased daily stress. Compounding these issues, conceptual myths that those in leadership positions have roles that protect them […]

The North Carolina Institute for Public Health (NCIPH) recently finished a pilot course strengthening the connection between local health department finance and program staff through an interactive strategic skills training known as Strategic Scholars. The program follows a national model developed and implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National […]

Kiara was only four months into her new role as the Region 2 Department of Health emergency preparedness coordinator. She was attending a large region-wide in-person meeting—the first in-person gathering in over two years. Driving to the meeting, she thought how nervous she would be around so many colleagues she didn’t know yet. The meeting […]

The Indigenous Public Health Leaders (IPHL) program recently launched by the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) is truly the first of its kind. The program, which is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services, as part of the Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-OT18-1802: […]