{"id":8739,"date":"2023-10-16T11:56:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2025-04-27T19:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T23:15:46","slug":"nephtc-reports-63k-participants-to-hrsa-for-fy23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2023\/10\/16\/nephtc-reports-63k-participants-to-hrsa-for-fy23\/","title":{"rendered":"NEPHTC Reports 63K Participants to HRSA for FY23"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEPHTC is delighted to report that in 2023 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2022 \u2013 June 30, 2023)\u00a0 it reported 63,515 participants across 609 courses. \u201cAfter public health events in 2020-2022 created increased demand for online content, there was a perception of online training fatigue 2023,\u201d says Karla Todd Barrett, Senior Program Manager and Training Specialist.\u00a0 \u201cFollowing a peak of 64,109 participants, use is about flat, which is terrific. Though participation is influenced by many factors, the number of offerings is an important consideration. \u00a0Last year we reached a high of 609 courses reported, with all partners contributing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTogether with strong partnerships and collaborations, NEPHTC is looking forward to continuing to provide a wide range of training opportunities across modalities,\u201d says Patricia Janulewicz Lloyd, Principal Investigator. \u201cWe are expanding into more Environmental Health programming, and we are now situated in BUSPH\u2019s Department of Environmental Health. We continue to place a strong emphasis on the unique needs of the medically underserved communities in each state in our region and how those needs impact the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

Insights from Partners <\/strong><\/p>\n

One NEPHTC email promoting\u00a0an unexpected popular training received a higher-than-usual open rate. When NEPHTC marketed the recording of Anti-Fatness in Public Health,<\/strong><\/span><\/a> created by partner Yale School of Public Health Office of Practice on August 24, 2023, \u201cit reached an open rate of 55.6% and a click rate of 26.8%, compared to normal open and click rates of 28-32% and 1-4%, respectively,\u201d says Olivia Stenger, NEPHTC Marketing Manager.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 This webinar reconsiders \u201cobesity\u201d and its \u201cprevention\u201d and asks how weight stigma and anti-fat bias intersect with public health practice. With a paradigm shift from “obesity prevention” to understanding weight stigma as a social and structural determinant, public health practitioners and researchers can avoid causing harm and push for better outcomes for their communities. \u201cThe Anti Fatness topic was raised as one of several important areas to increase workforce learning for supporting marginalized populations in Connecticut,\u201d said Susan Nappi, Executive Director Office of Public Health Practice, Yale School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

Other standard measures of training for FY23 in EHB data<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other insights from the EHB data are:<\/p>\n