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Beyond Training for Health Equity
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People gravitate toward careers in public health research and practice for a reason—to help their communities in concrete and enduring ways. With that strong commitment to “doing good,” we persevere in the face of shrinking funding, lacking resources, sharp-edged politics, and mountainous bureaucracy. The growing and vibrant movement to stem health inequities is a manifestation of […]
Florida Institutions Collaboratively Address Health Equity through Research and Training
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In the late nineties, Dr. Cynthia Harris, Director of the Institute of Public Health at Florida A&M University, found herself thinking about what health equity might look like in Florida. She saw urgency in addressing equity in the public health and health care fields—in her state and across the nation. But “health equity” wasn’t […]
Trainings Featured in Fall 2016 Elevate, Your Resource for Lifelong Learning
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For the fall issue of Elevate, we’ve curated and highlighted a few of the PHLN’s online and in-person trainings on health disparities, the social determinants of health, and more. Moving Public Health Practice Upstream: A Case Study on the Minimum Wage This module details how raising the minimum wage is a public health issue and provides […]
Training Highlights: Public Health Marketing, Mental Resilience, and American Indian and Alaska Native Food Access
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This week’s list of highlighted training courses features courses on public health marketing, mental resilience among community health workers, substance use disorders, and healthy food access and choices among American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Marketing Public Health From Region I New England Public Health Training Center This course offers concrete strategies for communicating with public […]
Training Highlights: Public Health and Shale and Cultural Competency
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights showcases the beginning of a biweekly series on innovative approaches, starting off with a discussion of the public health solutions to shale development and a webinar on the importance of cultural competency in both public health and the health care workforce. Collaborative Public Health Solutions to Shale Development From Region […]
From Region II LPS NYSACHO: How Local Public Health Departments Can Partner with Regional Public Health Training Centers to Support a Workforce Prepared to Advance Health Equity
- By: Mikhaila Richards, MS
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Explore findings and implications from local and national training needs assessments and learn how local health departments can engage and leverage the PHLN to enhance public health practice and advance health equity.
From the NCCPHT: How Local Public Health Departments Can Partner with Regional Public Health Training Centers to Support a Workforce Prepared to Advance Health Equity
- By: Mikhaila Richards, MS
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Learn more about how the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training is supporting the Public Health Learning Network in advancing health equity through work with Local Health Departments.
From Region 2 PHTC: How Local Public Health Departments Can Partner with Regional Public Health Training Centers to Support a Workforce Prepared to Advance Health Equity
- By: Mikhaila Richards, MS
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Led by the Public Health Learning Network (PHLN), this National Association of County and City Health Officials’ Annual Meeting Sharing Session explored findings and implications from local and national training needs assessments and learn how local health departments can engage and leverage the PHLN to enhance public health practice and advance health equity.
Training Highlights: Shaping Organizational Culture, Evidence-based Treatment Options, and Environmental Public Health
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This installment of our PHLN Training Highlights series includes a soon-to-air webcast on the merits of medication assisted treatment, a set of modules on environmental public health, and a webinar on the role of leaders in shaping organizational culture. Shaping Organizational Culture: The Role of Leaders From Region IV Public Health Training Center Leaders in […]
Welcome to the New Era of Public Health Training: HRSA Region VII Midwestern Public Health Training Center
- By: Mikhaila Richards, MS
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Midwestern Public Health Training Center shared its approach to engaging adult learners, as well as an overview of its recent workforce development activities.