These slides were developed for the TRAIN workshop on "Public Health Workforce Training & Education Data: Improving Access for Researchers through TRAIN” at the 2013 Keeneland Conference.  While travel complications prevented the presentation from occurring, the valuable information within the presentation is being made available here for reference. To access a copy of this PowerPoint, please click on the “Download this File” link.

Presentation Background

TRAIN, the premier learning management network for professionals who protect the public’s health, is the project’s data source. TRAIN has over 700,000 learners, and over 29,000 courses from more than 4,000 training providers. TRAIN provides detailed information on the public health workforce, its skills/competence, how it’s trained, and its capacity.

Public Health Foundation utilized TRAIN to provide tools aimed at advancing Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR). The TRAIN Data Dictionary outlines the data element definitions. The three tailored datasets are designed to incentivize researchers to conduct PHSSR by exemplifying how TRAIN data can assist in PHSSR research. TRAIN provided sufficient data on the public health workforce for the initial extraction of three datasets. While this data is limited to public health professionals using TRAIN and thereby factors heavily on health departments using TRAIN, TRAIN still provides the sole cross-jurisdictional source of data on the public health workforce.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate how the TRAIN learning management network expands access to high-quality public health education and provides data on the training of the public health workforce.
• Show information about the TRAIN Data Dictionary, tailored datasets, and additional available data options in TRAIN.
• Describe how to obtain access to the TRAIN datasets and request additional data from TRAIN. ​