Regional Training Centers in the Public Health Learning Network
As the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT), the National Network of Public Health Institutes is a collaborative leader and facilitator of the Public Health Learning Network (PHLN), the nation’s most comprehensive system of public health educators, experts, and thought leaders. Together with our partners in the PHLN, the Regional Public Health Training Centers, we aim […]
7 New England Senators show support for Public Health Training Centers!
Last month, 73 members of the US House of Representative – 11 of them from New England – signed a Dear Colleague letter to support the Public Health Training Centers in the federal budget. This month 24 Senators showed their support for the same Public Health Training Center line item in the Senate appropriations bill. […]
New England Congresspersons Support PHTC’s
73 members of the US House of Representatives signed Dear Colleague Letter supporting the Public Health Training Center line item in the federal budget. 11 of the Representatives were from New England! They are pictured, from the top left moving right: Chellie Pingree, of ME’s 1st congressional district, Jim Langevin, of RI’s 2nd congressional district, […]
NEPHTC Systems Thinking Training to be Featured for March on CDC Learning Connection!
NEPHTC is pleased to announce that the CDC Learning Connection will be featuring our “Introduction to Systems Thinking” course on their homepage for the month of March 2019. The course will be sent to more than 175,000 subscribers to the CDC monthly e-newsletter (primarily public health professionals and healthcare workers) and will be shared with […]
Improvement: 86% of NEPHTC Interns Worked on Medically Undeserved Projects
Wrapping up the year, NEPHTC is reflecting on the important public health practical experiences we get to offer graduate students in the form of internships. We were happy to see in our data from last year 86% of student placements were with medically underserved populations or in medically underserved communities. This is an improvement from […]
NEPHTC: Making Happy Users
Happy training users makes NEPHTC is happy to share results! Our last year of training common metrics data, displayed in the infographic, shows that NEPHTC continues to be strong on the four nationally collected data questions (“the common metrics.”) Measured in two different ways, users continue to report overall satisfaction, that their understanding of subjects […]
Mix of Training Modalities Still the Norm
The New England Public Health Training Center just finished its annual performance reporting to the Health Resources and Services Administration for the time period July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018. In total, 290 titles were offered, with self-paced being the most common training modality, but classroom training is still highly sought after by training […]
Large Increase in Trainings, Due to Good Partnerships
The NEPHTC saw a large increase in the number of training instances reported to the Health Resources and Services Administration in the annual performance reporting which runs from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018. Due to our partners and a lot of hard work, especially leveraging funding from other grants to co-support, sponsor or […]
Go Team! “Effective Meetings” to be Featured by CDC in September
NEPHTC was pleased to learn that the CDC Learning Connection, which features quality public health learning opportunities from the CDC, other federal agencies, and federally funded partners, will be featuring the New England Public Health Center’s Holding Effective Meetings self-paced training during the month of September. This self-paced training, which was developed as part of […]
Four of NEPHTC Online Courses Win Quality Seal
NEPHTC is pleased to announce that four of its self-paced online courses were among the first eleven launched on NNPHI’s new Public Health Learning Navigator. The quality seal, which means they have been reviewed by peer reviewers using a quality review tool, and are recommended to endure until 2022, are: Coaching Skills, modified […]