Congrats to Our Students!
NEPHTC offers our Health Equity Stipend Program to provide exceptional students with opportunities to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in a public health practice setting working with a medically underserved area/population. Every year, we aim to reach students of all backgrounds from different areas, and this year we are happy to report that we have student representation […]
Introducing the Public Health Training Center Network!
HRSA’s 10 Regional Public Health Training Centers Refunded and Rebranded as the Public Health Training Center Network! We are a consortium of regional Public Health Training Centers that collectively represent the nation’s most comprehensive resource for public health workforce development. While our individual Center work is tailored to meet the needs of those in our […]
27 Students Across New England Receive Stipends for Public Health Work in Underserved Communities
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 Receives $3.7M HRSA Award!
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 […]
Publication: PHTCs Partner With Community Health Worker Organizations To Train & Support The CHW Workforce
We are happy to share this blog post written by NEPHTC’s Program Manager, Karla Todd Barrett, and Marcia Morales Villavicencio: “Public Health Training Centers Partner With Community Health Worker Organizations To Train And Support The CHW Workforce.” This blog post highlights an article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, titled “Public […]
Honorable Mention for 2022 Elevating Practice Award
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 […]
3 NEPHTC Courses Selected for Public Health Americorps
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 […]
PHTC Student Field Placement Program By the Numbers
NEPHTC thanks our colleagues at Region 4 PHTC (Emory and University of Alabama) for putting together this data on the PHTC Student Field Placement Program. These data show that the PHTCs, a HRSA-funded program providing public health workforce development, collectively placed 693 students from July 1, 2018 to June 30,21. 74% of students worked on […]
Public Health Training Centers’ Collective Impact in Training the Workforce
NETPHC is pleased to present the three year summary of the HRSA-funded Regional Public Health Training Centers data. From July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021, the PHTCs have trained 751,888 participants in the public health workforce through 7,846 trainings. This demonstrates how the PHTCs collaborate together nationally to provide workforce training and tools, and […]
A Tough But Good Year for NEPHTC Training Enrollment
NEPHTC reported this Fiscal Year’s 2021 performance to our funder, the Health Resource and Services Administration on July 30, 2021. In the past year, from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, NEPTHC and our fabulous Community Based Training Partners reported 45,912 instances of training (commonly called “participants”), an increase of approximately 2,000 from the […]