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Performance Management Is a Bit Like Making Sourdough (Or Making Sourdough Is a Bit Like Performance Management)

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvementby Sonja Armbruster

July 8, 2020

By Sonja Armbruster, in collaboration with Amanda McCarty and Jack Moran
As we’ve all spent more time at home this spring and summer, I’ve found myself in the kitchen often. I’m pretty comfortable there - confident with my cooking and baking skills. But when yeast was absent from the store,...

COVID-19, Nonpharmaceutical Interventions, Asthma, & Lab PPE Trainings

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

July 2, 2020

Expand your public health knowledge this summer with these trainings from CDC Learning Connection. Have you checked out CDC’s COVID-19 trainings? Visit Training for Healthcare Professionals to learn the latest on infection control, clinical care, emergency response, and more. Earn free CE for several...

Five Trainings for Health Professionals to Integrate Racial Equity Into Practice

Posted in: Workforce Developmentby Vanessa Lamers

June 4, 2020

Racism is a public health issue, with significant impacts to health and well-being.
Public health and healthcare professionals know firsthand the impacts that long-standing discriminatory structures and institutionalized racism have on health outcomes. This has been particularly pronounced throughout...

COVID-19, Opioid Prescribing, Storytelling, & Climate Change Trainings

Posted in: TRAIN

May 4, 2020

Don’t miss these timely trainings from CDC Learning Connection. Find CDC courses on COVID-19 topics via Training for Healthcare Professionals. Learn about clinical care, appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE), risk communication, and more. Several trainings offer free CE. Nurses...

Cross-Sector Collaboration for Improving the Health of Communities: You Can’t Do It Alone

Posted in: Community Development, and Performance Management and Quality Improvement

April 15, 2020

Ron Bialek and John W. Moran “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” ― Helen Keller1

Improving a community’s health requires that the community’s public health department, healthcare institutions, and other community stakeholders providing health and health-related services...

COVID-19, Lab Safety, Global WASH, & Pneumococcal Vaccination Trainings

Posted in: TRAINby Samantha Draper

April 2, 2020

It’s a busy time to be a health professional. Recharge with one of CDC Learning Connection’s featured trainings. Learn about COVID-19 with the latest courses on TRAIN. Topics include infection prevention and control, personal protective equipment, and caring for people at higher risk for severe COVID-19....

Prescribe PrEP, Protect Decisions from Bias, & Deliver Trauma-Informed Care

Posted in: TRAIN

March 4, 2020

Baseball players aren’t the only ones with spring training! Check out these training home runs on CDC Learning Connection!
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can reduce the risk of HIV by up to 99%. Learn how to prescribe, monitor, and educate patients about PrEP with Prescribing PrEP. Free CE. How...

Performance Improvement Competencies to Be Featured at 2020 Open Forum for Quality Improvement and Innovation

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

February 24, 2020

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
The Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health (PI Competencies) will be featured at the Open Forum for Quality Improvement and Innovation (Open Forum) this March in Kansas...

Evaluate Programs, Respond to Disasters, & Prevent Blood Clots

Posted in: TRAIN

February 5, 2020

This February, explore the featured trainings on CDC Learning Connection, which all offer FREE CE! Is evaluation part of your work? Take your skills to the next level with Advanced Program Evaluation from the Region 2 Public Health Training Center. With every disaster, health data are needed to make...

Build Inclusion, Reduce Wildfire Smoke Exposure, & Fight Workplace Fatigue

Posted in: TRAIN

December 4, 2019

Looking for end-of-year training or CE? Check out CDC Learning Connection's featured trainings, which all offer FREE CE! About 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 6 children in the United States have a disability. Learn how to include people with disabilities in health department programs, products, and services...