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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’...

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

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

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...

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...

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...

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 January Courses: Opioids, Concussion, Foodborne Outbreak, & Lab Informatics

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

January 9, 2019

Kick off 2019 with a CDC Learning Connection featured training! More than 70,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2017. Access the latest opioid courses on TRAIN via our Hot Training Topic to learn about substance use disorders and more. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, is ...

CDC Learning Connection’s November Courses: Opioids, Pandemic Flu, Diabetes, & Outbreak Investigation

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

November 1, 2018

Visit the CDC Learning Connection this November to take advantage of our timely featured trainings! A recent study shows improvements in opioid prescribing after the release of the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. Access opioid courses on TRAIN via the Hot Training Topic to ...

CDC Learning Connection’s October Courses: Opioids, Economic Evaluation, Cause of Death Reporting, & Hepatitis C

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

October 3, 2018

Check out October’s featured courses on the CDC Learning Connection! New data show that opioid prescribing continued to decrease in the United States in 2017, but still remains high. Find courses on TRAIN via the Hot Training Topic to learn the latest evidence-based approaches to the opioid overdose epi...

CDC Learning Connection’s September Courses: Opioids, PTSD and Suicide, Antibiotic Stewardship, & Effective Meetings

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

September 5, 2018

Get a fresh start to your fall with a featured training on the CDC Learning Connection! Hot Training Topic: Looking for the latest opioid-related training? Access courses from CDC and other organizations on TRAIN. Learn about safe prescribing, risk management, naloxone administration, and more. Suicide...

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...