Excellent Training Participation: 69,590 in from July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024

NEPHTC submitted its annual HRSA Performance Report for the year ending June 30, 2024, and is delighted to announce that we reached 69,590 training participants in the past year, an increase from 63,515 last year.

“This is a high number of participants for a program with a small budget,” says PI Tricia Janulewicz. “This speaks volumes about the good value of the university-based Public Health Training Center Network, and our ability to build relationships with and reach the public health workforce.”

The biggest source of the increase was an increase in participants in trainings developed and delivered by long term partner Yale School of Public Health’s Office of Public Health Practice. “Together with our workforce partners, we identified topics that resonated as needing learning, for example learning to approach weight stigma,” says Maurine Crouch, Program Manager.

“I’m excited that our workplan includes launching several promising new trainings in the next year,” says Candice Bangham, Senior Program Manager and leader of daily operations. “In collaboration with NNPHI, we are developing a training series for taking an equity-based approach to building public health infrastructure launching in the fall. In addition, we have already launched registration for the New England Rural Health Leadership Institute in collaboration with the New England Rural Health Association. We were pleased at how quickly the cohort filled up.”

NEPHTC and Boston University School of Public Health are grateful to HRSA for the funding that has allowed it to support the public health workforce since 2000.