Announcing the 2021 Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit Pilot Testers
The Public Health Learning Agenda Design Team, which includes NEPTHC’s Karla Todd Barrett, is excited to announce the organizations selected to pilot test the first version of the Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit. This group of 26 teams represents governmental public health agencies, higher education, and other health-related organizations from around the country. The […]
A NCEZID Compliment for Systems Thinking Course
NEPHTC received another compliment for its Introduction to Systems Thinking self paced training listed on TRAIN. Our TRAIN managing partner received an email from a course selection team member last week. In a follow up email we learned, “The course was identified as aligning to one of the five key domains (specifically the Leadership and […]
Structural Racism – What Can We Do?
Structural Racism – What Can We Do? We can speak. As people, leaders can speak. We can each speak. NEPHTC appreciates the leaders of our institutions -Boston University School of Public Health and Boston University – who have spoken out against racism. We appreciate that they speak, and then speak again, showing that sometimes we […]
Learning Can Help Public Health Cross Silos in the Opioid Epidemic
The Public Health Training Centers like nothing better than to see learning take hold and actualized in the real world of public health, particularly on an important issue like the Opioid Epidemic. In this post, NEPHTC is celebrating work done by a public health team in Kansas, that started with a learning program developed by […]
Self-Paced Training: Introduction to Systems Thinking
About this course This self-study course introduces learners to the fundamental tools of Systems Thinking. Systems thinking provides a framework for identifying and addressing the underlying causes of complex problems. This approach minimizes responding to problem symptoms and the associated unintended consequences of quick fixes. This training will provide an overview of key concepts and […]
Coaching: Success Story from a Public Health Team
NEPHTC is happy to share this video, developed for APHA in November, 2019, describing the successful use of Systems Thinking by the Vermont Cancer Registry.
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 thinking tools. View the entire poster for Systems Thinking Training […]
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 session, co-authored with Hope Kenefick, NEPHTC Evaluator, and Julia Ross, Systems Thinking Expert from Ross […]
Systems Thinking, Vermont and New Hampshire partners to be featured at NNPHI Annual
NEPHTC is pleased to announce that it will be featured at the annual NNPHI meeting in Washington, D.C. in two poster sessions. Both posters feature work that originated in a public health workforce need that was made into reality by the collaboration by NEPHTC and it’s impressive state partnerships. If you have the chance, learn […]
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 is often missing from self-paced and classroom learning alone. […]