The 2025 NEPHTC By the Numbers report is here! From July 1st 2024 – June 30th 2025, the New England Public Health Training Center reached 74,170 participants through 529 trainings, continuing to strengthen the public health workforce across the region. Courses offered covered continuing education credits, including CHES, RN, Dental, and other primary topic areas, with the largest share of trainings addressing Public Health Science, Community Partnership, and Communication.
NEPHTC’s reach extended across key service areas, with approximately 20% of participants trained in medically underserved areas, 14.5% in rural areas, and 21% in primary care settings, and this year showed a record high for participants trained! The yearly growth report also shows our continued commitment to offering over 500 trainings per year – a trend we have been proud to continue since 2021!
The Public Health Training Center Network has also recently released updated training metrics through June 2025. Regional public health training centers (including NEPHTC) across the PHTCN have offered 19,692 trainings and have reached 1,897,518 participants, with the top 3 competencies aligning with those of NEPHTC’s offerings: Public Health Sciences Skills, Community Partnership Skills, and Communication Skills. In terms of field placements, as of June 2025, the PHTCN has placed 1,716 students, which has contributed to 355,479 contact hours.
NEPHTC is so proud to contribute to this immense effort to offer public health trainings to professionals in all of Region 1 and across the country. We thank the NEPHTC and PHTCN staff who have contributed to updating these metrics to showcase the incredible work being done!