Our Impact
2019 NNPHI Annual Conference – Systems Thinking Training Program, with a Plan for Action
Systems Thinking provides a framework to understand and solve complex problems by identifying and addressing underlying causes of the problems. This approach minimizes responding to problem symptoms and their unintended consequences. This one-hour online training introduces participants to the systems approach and three systems... More
Todd Highlights Systems Thinking Results at National Conference for Health Departments
Karla Todd, Senior Program Manager Training Specialist for New England Public Health Training Center, led a session at the NACCHO Annual Conference in Orlando. This year’s conference emphasized the theme, Improving the Nation’s Health through Public and Private Partnerships. Todd’s... More
Coaching on Strategic Skills – Public Health Teams Learn By Doing (and Build Capacity)
What is coaching, and why is it an important learning tool for public health? The public health workforce does not have time for theory, and wants practical application. Coaching is a way to get to the practical application of learning that... More
NEPHTC Health Equity Interns Learn by Working on Medically Underserved Public Health Projects
In addition to training the current public health workforce, each public health training center across the country supports the emerging public health workforce by awarding stipends to current public health students in field placements or faculty student collaborative projects. At... More
Great Training Performance Numbers (and a Correction)
With the help and good attitude of the whole team, New England Public Health Training Center just finished its annual data gathering, cleaning and inputting process, to happy results! Our training instances continued their upward trend, reaching 29,038. As we reflect... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More