Today’s public health challenges, like climate change and COVID-19, require an adaptive public health workforce with diverse knowledge and skills to respond to evolving issues, engage in collective learning, and intervene at organizational, community, and systems levels.

The Public Health Learning Network acknowledges the enormity of this task and has developed a new framework and other tools for doing the work. You can find it all in their new resource, Creating a Learning Agenda for Systems Change: A Toolkit for Building an Adaptive Public Health Workforce.

The framework embedded in the toolkit helps workforce specialists understand and define public health problems, align the problem with the type of change needed to address it—like increasing knowledge or addressing social norms—and recommend complementary learning strategies to tackle the problem with a vision of addressing systems change.

The toolkit also includes problem-solving tools for moving these concepts into action.

“We want public health leaders and their partners to use this toolkit as a catalyst for their design thinking and planning to change the way their organizations approach learning. This is critical for building learning strategies that can facilitate more ongoing innovation in today’s public health workforce,” said lead author Christina Welter, DrPH, MPH.

Are you ready to take your organization’s training and learning to the next level? Visit the Public Health Learning Agenda and download a copy of the toolkit today.

Interested and want to know more before you begin? Register for the kick-off webinar on February 2, 2021 (2:00pm Eastern time) and hear more about how these concepts and tools fit together and about future pilot testing for the toolkit.

The Public Health Learning Network is a national coalition of 10 Regional Public Health Training Centers and their partners organized to meet public health workforce development needs.