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The Public Health Learning Network (PHLN), the nation’s most comprehensive system of public health educators, experts, and thought leaders, is a leader in developing and delivering timely and high-quality trainings for the public health workforce. The country’s ten Regional Public Health Training Centers play a significant role in creating, identifying, and sharing training and resources that ensure public health professional have access to convenient, flexible ways to meet their learning goals.

The following list of trainings focuses on addressing potential challenges to a successful national COVID-19 vaccination campaign, including issues like messaging and coordination, equitable access, and vaccine hesitancy. Take a training or share with your colleagues so that we can all do our part in understanding barriers and contributing to this unprecedented public health campaign. For more information on PHLN or the Regional Public Health Training Centers, visit www.nnphi.org/phln.

Vaccines and the Media

Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

This recorded webinar, intended for those agency officials and staff who are communicating about vaccines to the media, discusses strategies for framing messaging on vaccines. Led by Associate Professor of Practice, Marion Ceraso, this webinar is intended to support the public health workforce in identifying opportunities to reframe or reinforce vaccine messaging.

Building Vaccine Confidence Through Messaging

Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

In this 2018 recorded webinar, health communications expert, Dr. Devon Greyson, shares ways to help public health professionals and clinical providers speak about vaccinations. By identifying the un- and under-vaccinated populations in your community and their trusted sources of information, public health professionals and clinicians can develop partnerships to increase trust and confidence in vaccines.

COVID-19: What Happens When We Have a Vaccine

Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center

In this recorded webinar, a panel of experts – Ana Diez-Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, and Caroline Johnson, MD – share their expertise on the recommendations of the National Academies’ Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus, on which Diez-Roux and Buttenheim served, as well as exploring the challenges of health communication, vaccine hesitancy, and vaccine distribution in Philadelphia.

Vaccine Hesitancy among African American Communities

Region IV Public Health Training Center

In this 2020 recorded webinar, CDC leaders Sarah Schillie, MD and Jeffery E. Hall, PhD discuss the history of vaccine hesitancy in the African American community and share ways healthcare and public health leaders can build trust to increase vaccine uptake.

Inclusive Just-In-Time Training

Western Region Public Health Training Center

This online module for public health leaders describes the framework, methods, and environment of Inclusive Just-In-Time Training (JIIT). The module utilizes a case study of a public health nurse training for a mass vaccination response to a disease outbreak to demonstrate how local health departments can adopt and use the Inclusive JIIT model to better train their response staff.

Addressing Flu Vaccine Hesitancy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Western Region Public Health Training Center

This 2020 self-paced training describes seasonal flu, the flu vaccine, and the synergistic epidemics of COVID-19 and influenza, and introduces strategies to address vaccine hesitancy.

For a full list of PHLN trainings related to vaccine distribution, messaging, and equity, visit our resource directory.