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Ask the AHD Expert: Creating a Job Description for an AHD Coordinator

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

September 29, 2017

Bill Keck, MD, MPH, Chair, Academic Health Department Learning Community; Chair, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice; Professor Emeritus, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University With excellent staff being key to the successful operation...

Feedback from the Public Health Community Helping to Refine Legal Epidemiology Competencies

Posted in: Workforce Development

September 26, 2017

Montrece McNeill Ransom, JD, MPH, Team Lead, Training and Workforce Development, Public Health Law Program (PHLP), Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Rose Meltzer, PHLP Intern, OSTLTS, CDC, and MPH student (2018),...

Top 5 Ways the TRAIN Learning Network Builds Public Health Workforce Capacity

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

September 1, 2017

The TRAIN Learning Network continues to grow at an impressive rate - now serving the needs of over 1.75 million health workers – showing a sharp 50% increase in learners since late 2015. This expansion is fueled by impactful partnerships with 29 TRAIN affiliates, which are states, national organizations,...

Engaging Learners with Online Training Series: Leila Filson

Posted in: TRAIN

August 29, 2017

Engaging Learners with Online Training is a five-part blog series featuring stories from E-learning Institute Fellowship (ELI) alumni. Alumni have different stories to tell about the impact ELI had on their work in public health. Nurses and clinical laboratory personnel in Florida must complete...

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...

Engaging Learners with Online Training Series: Kim Sandrock

Posted in: TRAIN

August 21, 2017

Engaging Learners with Online Training is a five-part blog series featuring stories from E-learning Institute Fellowship (ELI) alumni. Alumni have different stories to tell about the impact ELI had on their work in public health. I learned about ELI from my department’s Training Coordinator who...

Engaging Learners with Online Training Series: Rachel MacLean

Posted in: TRAIN

August 15, 2017

Engaging Learners with Online Training is a five-part blog series featuring stories from E-learning Institute Fellowship (ELI) alumni. Alumni have different stories to tell about the impact ELI had on their work in public health. As a Project Officer at the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA),...

Engaging Learners with Online Training Series: Britta Cedergren

Posted in: TRAIN

August 8, 2017

Engaging Learners with Online Training is a five-part blog series featuring stories from E-learning Institute Fellowship (ELI) alumni. Alumni have different stories to tell about the impact ELI had on their work in public health. My former supervisors at the Yale Office of Public Health Practice...

Engaging Learners with Online Training Series: Kasey Decosimo

Posted in: TRAIN, and Workforce Development

August 2, 2017

Engaging Learners with Online Training is a five-part blog series featuring stories from E-learning Institute Fellowship (ELI) alumni. Alumni have different stories to tell about the impact ELI had on their work in public health. As a Research Associate for the North Carolina Institute for Public...

Ask the AHD Expert: Operating Academic Health Collaboratives

Posted in: Council on Linkages, and Workforce Development

June 30, 2017

Bill Keck, MD, MPH, Chair, Academic Health Department Learning Community; Chair, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice; Professor Emeritus, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University Academic health department (AHD) partnerships require...