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Public Health Training Centers Supporting Community Health Workers
Community Health Workers (CHWs) hold a unique and essential role within the public health workforce. CHWs often share life experiences, socioeconomic status, and language with people in the communities where they work. This community connection is usually part of the hiring criteria. As a result, CHW workforce is among the most ethnically and linguistically diverse […]
‘More than a Checkbox’: How Public Health Training Centers Are Advancing Racial Justice
In addition to other county and city leaders, policymakers from seven states and the District of Columbia have formally highlighted racism as a public health crisis or emergency. This spotlight can directly lead to increased attention, funding, and innovation needed to address the root causes of racism. There is an immediate opportunity to create more […]
A STEP FORWARD: ANTI-RACIST TRAINING IN PUBLIC HEALTH
- By: Serena McCovery, MBA
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Racism was deemed a public health emergency in 2020, emphasizing the urgent need to advance inclusion, equity, and diversity. Public health practitioners are essential in fighting against bias, discrimination, and microaggressions in the workplace. The self-paced training, “How to be Anti-Racist in the Everyday Practice of Public Health, is designed to equip public health professionals […]
Intern, National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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Overview: The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) is an active network comprised of over forty-member public health institutes located throughout all ten Health and Human Services regions. NNPHI also serves as the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) and hosts an affiliate network of ten Regional Public Health Training Centers (Regional […]
Resource Guide: Training with Intention: Using the CDC Quality Training Standards to Effectively Develop Trainings-Project ECHO
- By: Danielle Blakey, MPH
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The Institute for Public Health Innovation, in partnership with the National Network of Public Health Institutes, offered a training series on effective training development. Throughout five sessions, which took place from late May to June 2022, the training series enabled public health professionals to apply the CDC Quality Training Standards in developing, delivering, and revising […]
Training Associate, NCCPHT
- By: National Network of Public Health Institutes
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Overview: The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) is an active network comprised of over forty-member public health institutes located throughout all ten Health and Human Services regions. NNPHI also serves as the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) and hosts an affiliate network of ten Regional Public Health Training Centers (Regional […]
Project ECHO Immersion Training
- By: Maurice Starks
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Inspired by the way clinicians learn from medical rounds during residencies, the Project ECHO Model has evolved into a learning framework that applies across disciplines for sustainable and profound change. In Project ECHO for Public Health, participants engage in a virtual community with their peers where they share support, guidance, and feedback. During an ECHO session, participants present […]
The Public Health Improvement Training (PHIT) 2023 (Virtual)
- By: Maurice Starks
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The Public Health Improvement Training (PHIT) will be held in person (May 8, 2023) AND virtually (June 5-7, 2023), featuring a series of hands-on, skill-building workshops designed to elevate practice to the next level for the public health improvement workforce in order to take action in public health performance improvement topics such as: Change Management […]
The Public Health Improvement Training (PHIT) 2023 (Virtual)
- By: Maurice Starks
- Date
The Public Health Improvement Training (PHIT) will be held in person (May 8, 2023) AND virtually (June 5-7, 2023), featuring a series of hands-on, skill-building workshops designed to elevate practice to the next level for the public health improvement workforce in order to take action in public health performance improvement topics such as: Change Management […]
Training and Supporting Healthcare Leadership During the COVID Pandemic
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 […]