International Transgender Day of Visibility is March 31, 2022! 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 the public health workforce a more supportive environment for trans people. Check […]
Located at the Boston University School of Public Health, NEPHTC has the privilege of sharing recent pieces of writing from BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea on the War in Ukraine. As public health and health professionals consider how they can engage in the context of war to fulfill their commitment to health, read: Physicians and the […]
NEPTHC is happy to share this article about faculty impact from BUSPH’s Department of Community Health Sciences, the home of NEPHTC. The article describes the CDC’s response to a commentary co-authored by Joanna Almeida, Associate Professor of Social Work at Simmons University, and our colleague Candice Belanoff, Clinical Associate Professor of CHS. The commentary, published last spring […]
Recorded Webinar Now Available Description: The region called Maine is the ancestral territory of indigenous communities. The COVID 19 pandemic has been triggering for tribal nations. Disease was one of the first weapons used against indigenous people, whether understood or not, diminishing and devastating native populations and aiding the taking of land. What does moving […]
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 […]
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 […]
NEPHTC is happy to share this Mental Health Series from our partners at the School Health Institute for Education and Leadership Development (SHIELD)! SHIELD’s Mental Health Series for School Health Professionals is well underway. Four sessions have been delivered and recordings, which are ideal for self-paced learning, are being made available. Two recordings are currently open, with two […]