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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...

Prevent Yellow Fever, Communicate Clearly, & Fight Flu

Posted in: TRAIN

November 4, 2019

Boost your immunization and communication skills this November with CDC Learning Connection's featured trainings! Do you provide care for international travelers? They may need the yellow fever vaccine. Learn how to conduct a pretravel consultation with the Yellow Fever Vaccine training. Earn free...

End Human Trafficking, Enhance Collaboration in Opioid Prescribing, & Prevent Violence

Posted in: TRAIN

October 2, 2019

Check out October’s timely trainings on CDC Learning Connection that all offer FREE CE! Human trafficking is a public health concern that impacts communities throughout the United States. Learn to identify and respond to individuals who are at risk or who are experiencing trafficking with SOAR to ...

HIV, Foodborne Outbreak, & Older Adult Falls Trainings

Posted in: TRAIN

September 4, 2019

Start your fall off strong with September’s featured trainings on CDC Learning Connection! An estimated 40,000 Americans are diagnosed with HIV each year. This Sexual Health Awareness Month, learn the latest guidance on HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment with the AIDS Education and Training...

Policy Analysis, Antibiotic Stewardship, & Water Fluoridation Trainings

Posted in: TRAIN

August 5, 2019

Discover CDC Learning Connection’s featured trainings for August! Policy has been a useful tool in many public health achievements. Take CDC’s Introduction to Policy Analysis in Public Health course to learn techniques for analyzing public health policy options. Antibiotic resistance is an urgent...

Performance Improvement Professionals Identify High Priority Areas for Workforce Development

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

July 18, 2019

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation Nearly 70 performance improvement (PI) professionals working in health departments and other public health organizations across the country came together last month to discuss and identify high priority...

Opioids, Tickborne Disease, Communication, & Hepatitis A Vaccination Trainings

Posted in: Workforce Development

July 3, 2019

Check out July’s featured trainings on the CDC Learning Connection and earn FREE CE! Have you explored the Applying CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids training series? Learn safe prescribing practices through interactive cases, knowledge checks, and built-in tools. Most cases of the potentially...

June’s CDC Learning Connection Courses: Opioids, HIV Prevention, Epidemiology, & Patient Safety

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

June 4, 2019

Start your summer by taking one of the CDC Learning Connection’s featured courses! Did you know a validated instrument such as the PEG Assessment Scale can help you quickly assess and monitor patients with chronic pain? Learn additional best practices with the Applying CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing...

CDC Learning Connection’s May Courses: Infection Prevention, Legionnaires’ Disease, & Opioid Use and Pregnancy

Posted in: Workforce Development

May 8, 2019

Discover May’s featured courses on the CDC Learning Connection and earn FREE CE! In honor of Hand Hygiene Day (May 5), learn best practices for nursing home infection prevention and control with CDC’s Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course. Learn how to reduce pathogen transmission,...

CDC Learning Connection’s April Courses: Opioids, STDs, Fume Hoods, & MMR Vaccination

Posted in: Workforce Development

April 2, 2019

Check out April’s featured courses with FREE CE on the CDC Learning Connection! A recent study showed that the amount of opioids prescribed in the United States in 2017 was nearly triple the amount prescribed in 1999. Explore the Applying CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids training series to...