International Transgender Day of Visibility is today, March 31! At NEPHTC, we are celebrating the accomplishments, talent, success, and resilience of the transgender community. Transgender Day of Visibility is also a time to raise awareness of trans rights and reflect on how we can make our communities more affirming for trans people. This message is especially crucial now, as the rights […]
Happy International Women’s Day from NEPHTC! Today and every day, we are celebrating the women in public health and beyond for their amazing contributions to the world. Thank you for your inspiring work! Check out these trainings below that focus on supporting women in public health: MACHW Workshops: Wellness and Health as Public Workers The […]
For more than a decade, NEPHTC and LPHI ran a 16 part management series entitled “Managing Effectively in Today’s Public Health Environment.” The program was designed to build competencies for current and future managers, preparing them for their day-to-day tasks and for the kinds of adaptation suggested by Public Health 3.0 advocates. In 2017, NEPTHC […]
We are happy to share this blog post, “Pilot Testing the Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit,” about the Public Health Learning Agenda for Systems Change Pilot Results. Karla Todd Barrett, NEPHTC’s Senior Program Manager and Training Specialist, was one of the co-authors. This blog post highlights an article published in the Journal of Public Health […]
We are so pleased to share the recent blog from our partners at the Yale School of Public Health’s Office of Public Health Practice (OPHP), discussing their Public Health Training Academy in development and their use of TRAIN. Read more from the Public Health Foundation Newsletter: “The public health workforce has been strained nationwide due to […]
NEPHTC is recognizing Black History Month this February to honor the accomplishments and history of Black Americans. The theme for Black History Month 2023 is Black Resistance. We want to highlight these two recent and relevant trainings from the Maine Public Health Association about racism and Black history in Maine: The History and Contemporary Reality […]
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 […]
We know that travel, time and payment for conferences are hard decisions! For those of you who are traveling to Boston for APHA, we hope that you will stop by the BUSPH table to grab one of the Workforce Training Center flyers featuring NEPHTC, SHIELD, and LPHI! Also, we hope you will say hello to […]
The results of the The 2021 Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), conducted between September 2021 and January 2022, are now available. The de Beaumont Foundation and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) conducted the study and have released the full data set and interactive dashboards, which you can explore here. Some […]
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 […]