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Start your fall with CDC Learning Connection’s featured trainings.In a recent survey, 53% of public health workers reported symptoms of at least one mental health condition in the past two weeks. Watch the Mental Health is Public Health webinar to learn about tools for developing healthy coping strategies.Large...

Working with Schools, Opioid Use Disorder, Financial Management, & Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

August 9, 2021

Gain new clinical and public health skills with CDC Learning Connection’s featured trainings.It’s back-to-school time in many parts of the United States. Learn how to apply public health practice to a school setting in Working with Schools 101. For the latest on COVID-19 prevention in K-12 schools,...

Helping Restaurants Reduce Spread of COVID-19

Posted in: Workforce Developmentby Vanessa Lamers

August 5, 2021

Vanessa Lamers, Assistant Director, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Public Health Foundation, and Ron Bialek, President, Public Health Foundation, Public Health FoundationRestaurants have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic, experiencing economic loses, orders...

An Urgent Need for Public Health Firefighters

Posted in: Infrastructure, and Workforce Developmentby Ron Bialek

July 27, 2021

Ron Bialek, MPP, President, Public Health FoundationA well-resourced, trained, and respected public health workforce is vital to our nation’s health. Unfortunately, leading into the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention had been paid to the needs of our workforce. The consequence has been millions of...

CDC Field Notes Story Highlights Pima County Health Department and University of Arizona AHD Partnership

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

July 26, 2021

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health FoundationThe Pima County Health Department (AZ) and University of Arizona’s Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health’s (MEZCOPH’s) academic health department (AHD) partnership is featured in the latest Field Notes story...

COVID-19, Working with Interpreters, Systems Thinking, & Disaster Messages

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Developmentby Samantha Draper

July 9, 2021

Don’t miss these exciting trainings featured on CDC Learning Connection! Learn how to become a COVID-19 vaccination provider and comply with requirements in What Healthcare Providers Need to Know. Free CE. Learn how to talk to families about vaccinating children against COVID-19 with Answering Parents’...

Draft Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals Open for Comment

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos

June 15, 2021

Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health FoundationA preliminary draft of proposed revisions to the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) is now available for open comment. Share your thoughts and help shape the future direction...

COVID-19, Women Veterans, One Health, and Patient Communication

Posted in: TRAINby Samantha Draper

June 14, 2021

Kick off your summer with CDC Learning Connection’s featured trainings and earn free CE. The risk of severe COVID-19 increases with the number of underlying medical conditions. Learn about the risk associated with underlying conditions and resources for patients with Underlying Medical Conditions...

COVID-19, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Hepatitis C, and Maternal Health Equity

Posted in: TRAINby Samantha Draper

May 14, 2021

Take these timely trainings featured on CDC Learning Connection. Learn about COVID-19 vaccination, case investigation and contact tracing, healthcare infection control, and testing with CDC’s recent training plans. Some courses in the plans offer free CE.About 90% of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic...

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Training: What Have We Learned?

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Developmentby Abdullah Tauqeer

April 26, 2021

Abdullah Tauqeer, Project Associate, Public Health FoundationOver the past nine months, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) has received more than 170 requests for customized COVID-19 contact tracing training packages, a free service providing health departments with tailored packages of contact tracing...