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? 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
NEPHTC is excited to provide Systems Thinking training in four states. The first Systems Thinking live training was held April 11, 2018 in Burlington, VT at the Vermont Department of Health, with the help of Heidi Klein, Director of Planning and Healthcare Quality, and Heidi Gortakowski, Director of Performance Management. The second Systems Thinking live […]
How can personality styles explain why we get along more easily with some people than others? In session 2 of NEPHTC’s three part series on the art of persuasion in a health conversation, expert Katherine Galasso will explore how styles influence the foundation for sending and receiving messages. In the description of each style you […]
Systems Thinking is one of the cross-cutting skills essential to the current and future public health workforce. On April 11, 2018, Julia Ross of Ross & Company, will facilitate a one day live training for managers at the Vermont Department of Public Health in Burlington, VT. “The fast pace of organizational life presses for short […]