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Explore the Latest in Public Health Workforce Development: The 2021 Public Health Learning Forum

Posted in: Conferences and Events, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

November 17, 2021

 

​​​​​​Anastasia Brennan, MSN, MPH,​ TRAIN Program ManagerThe 2021 Public Health Learning Forum was held in October 2021, and brought together professionals working in the fields of workforce development, emergency preparedness, public health, and healthcare for two weeks of stimulating and inspiring...

 

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

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

April 26, 2021

 

Abdullah Tauqeer, Project Associate, Public Health Foundation​​​Over 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...

 

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Expertise to Help Your Organization Implement its Opioid Initiatives

Posted in: Community Development, Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

June 26, 2018

 

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) specializes in solving complex challenges by facilitating partnerships and assisting health departments, hospitals, health systems, and other community stakeholders with proven performance improvement methodologies, tools, and experience. This expertise may help you...

 

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June’s New CDC Learning Connection Courses: Opioids, Nurses’ Shift Work, HIV PrEP, & Grant Writing

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

June 6, 2018

 

Don’t miss June’s featured courses on the CDC Learning Connection! Hot Training Topic: Opioid overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States. Access opioid courses on TRAIN and learn about pain management, patient communication, naloxone, and more.  It’s National Safety Month. Complete...

 

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PTSD 101 and Beyond: VA Offers Free, In-Depth CE/CME to Professionals Treating Trauma

Posted in: TRAIN

May 18, 2018

 

​As a world leader in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research and services, Veterans Affairs (VA) worked with Congress in 2014 to designate June as National PTSD Awareness Month. That effort was an expansion of PTSD Awareness Day, passed by Congress in 2010 in tribute to Army Staff Sergeant Joe...

 

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Blasting Off: Achieving Team Success Using Quality Improvement Tools

Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Strategic Planning

August 25, 2017

 

“Houston, we have a problem.” The story of the Apollo 13 mission stands as a shining example of a high-functioning and effective team, one that brought a damaged spacecraft, and its astronauts, home safely. But what should you do when your quality improvement (QI) team is stuck on the launch pad or...

 

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C. William Keck: Academic Health Departments

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

December 7, 2010

 

There is a big distinction between people just working together with their own agenda and working together towards a common purpose…When a community of learners transforms into a learning community, the outcome is far greater than the sum of the individual parts. Lori Nishiura, “On Learning”   Many...

 

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