27 students, distributed across New England, completed field placements and received stipends from HRSA for working in agencies to serve underserved communities, while building competency as part of the future public health workforce. “We worked really hard each year on distributing placements evenly across New England,” says Maurine Crouch, Manager of Field Placements for NEPHTC, […]
NEPHTC has received a $3.7 million award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency. These funds will be used over the next four years to improve the ability of the public health workforce to meet national, state, and local needs under the direction of […]
NEPTHC, along with its peer training centers at Emory (Region 4 PHTC), Michigan (Region 5 PHTC), Denver (Region 8 PHTC) and the University of Illinois Prevention Research Center, were just awarded Honorable Mention for the 2022 NNPHI Elevating Practice Award! The team received the award for the creation and dissemination of the Public Health Learning […]
NEPHTC is delighted to announce that the CDC, in partnership with Americorps, has curated and selected three of NEPTHC’s courses to be part of a training plan for the new Public Health Americorps program. According to the email we received, the program “supports the recruitment, training, and development of a new generation of public health […]
We are pleased to announce the “Connecticut’s Approach to Public Drinking Water and Public Health Protection”, on Thursday, March 17 with presenter Lori Mathieu, Section Chief of Drinking Water at the Connecticut Department of Public Health and an EPA representative. This program is free of cost and is available for CHES and NEHA CE’s. Connecticut’s […]
We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar, “Advocacy vs Lobbying in Public Health”, on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 with presenters from the Network for Public Health Law and the Connecticut Office of State Ethics. This program is free of cost and is available for CHES CE’s. Advocacy vs Lobbying in Public Health Tuesday, March […]
Managing Effectively in Today’s Public Health Environment Local boards of health (LBOH) and health departments in Massachusetts are responsible for providing ten essential public health services in their communities. To ensure consistency across LBOH a sub-committee of the Institute developed a competency model and set of competencies for 17 common program areas (i.e., food protection, […]
Partners in Public Health Workforce Development You can download a copy of the Spring 2015 NEPHTC Newsletter in PDF format. The New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC) is a partnership among schools and programs of public health, public health agencies and related organizations. It works to strengthen the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competencies of the […]
This handbook is intended to be a guide for the New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC) Student Internship Program administrators. As the Regional Center for New England, Boston University School of Public Health will being leading the administration of this program, with support from individuals from each of the six states in the region, […]
NNPHI to Serve as the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training [To download a copy of this announcement in its original form, Click Here] October 17, 2014, Washington, DC: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) a four-year Cooperative Agreement to serve the nation’s public […]