Self-paced trainings

Communicate to Make a Difference

Cost: Free

• This series includes five modules on Cross Cultural Communication. The first course, "Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication" invites learners to spend time thinking about and developing their own responses to a variety of ideas and situations about culture, communication and public health. "Communicate to Make a Difference: Practicing Cross-Cultural Communication" is a collection of case studies that examine the practical application of the "Ten Strategies for Effective Cross-Cultural Communication," as described in the "Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication" course. These four modules can be taken in any order.

Communicating and Disseminating Evidence to Decision Makers

Cost: Free

• In this online module, participants will explore effective strategies for communicating evidence to decision-makers and acquire tools and resources to create and disseminate messages about evidence-based solutions on different platforms for diverse audiences. Also, included is guidance for writing and disseminating policy briefs.

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog 

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.

• • • View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:

      • Epidemiology Concepts

      • Communicable Disease

      • Contact Tracing/Interviewing (History Collection)

    • This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.  

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
• Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
• Effective Communication
• Prevention Education & Service Delivery
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.  

Effective Communications

Cost: Free

• This course focuses on improving health professionals’ competency in communication strategies and tactics and understanding the attributes of a successful communication program. The training also explores risk communications and the natural tension that exists between what health agencies want and need to communicate and what the public wants and needs to understand. Finally, the course provides a general overview of the importance of helping employees and the public through change.

Marketing in Public Health

Cost: Free

• Whether you are managing a single program or an entire public health department, understanding the basic branding and marketing principles can be crucial to your success. Every program and organization has key stakeholders. The goal of this course is to offer concrete strategies for communicating with those stakeholders in order to support your broader program and organizational goals. Continuing Education available.

Public Health Data and Learning Center

Cost: Free

• Explore training focused on communicating effectively about data. Topics include understanding and engaging an audience, persuasive communications, communications strategies, and more. Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. 
  • An Overview of Public Health Reaching Across Sectors
  • Building BRIDGES: Understanding Our Position in Multi-Sector Communication
  • Building Inclusive Data Visualizations
  • Communicating to Different Personality Styles
  • Cooperative Communication
  • Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume II: Communicating Effectively
  • Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume III: Visualizing Data Stories
  • Using Message Framing Tools to Build and Sustain Cross-Sector Partnerships 

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
  • Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
  • Community Engagement
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.  

Idea to Legislation: A Step-by-Step Roadmap to Enacting Practical Health Policy

Cost: Free

• Follow the journey of LymeTV’s Tick JEDITM youth tick education program – from public health educational concept to successful legislative advocacy effort. The narrative serves as a model for scaling community activism to achieve meaningful policy adjustments for a broader population. 

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
  • Systems & Strategic Thinking
  • Justice, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • Data-Based Decision-Making and Management
  • Planning, Evaluation & Quality Assurance
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.  

Data State of Mind Online Modules

Cost: Free

• Being data literate has taken on a whole new meaning with the influx of information you interact with daily. Data has such power and influence when it is applied effectively to address a public or behavioral health issue. This self-paced online training offers practical, easy-to-apply information so that you learn how to question and critique existing data, as well as identify, collect, and analyze data. The objective of this training is to help you bring public and behavioral health data to life so you can become a responsible data citizen, using data to create positive change in the communities where you work.

GET PHIT

Cost: Free

• The professional development courses offered by GET PHIT were developed based on a needs assessment of Texas public health agencies. The professional development courses are online only and self-directed. Although participants will need to register, the education will be offered at no charge for the duration of the grant (until September 2025). Continuing education certificates will be awarded upon the completion of each unit.
  • Introduction to Public Health Informatics: This course will introduce learners to the field of health informatics as applied to the multi-disciplinary study of public health. Concepts from computer science and information science will be used to show how informaticians enrich our understanding of health administration, epidemiology, environmental science, and social and behavioral sciences. Learners will be introduced to the field's history, key terms and concepts, applications of informatics in public health, and common informatics software. 
  • Health Data Science: This course introduces methods in health data science – defining the problem, accessing, and loading the data, formatting into data structures required for analysis. This course covers the basics of computational thinking to define a computational solution, methods to access healthcare data from a variety of sources (EHR data, UMLS, Medline, etc.), and in different data formats. The students will apply methods for data wrangling and data quality assessments to structure the data for analysis. The students will be introduced to basics of design and evaluation of algorithms and application of data structures for healthcare data. The course will use Python programming language and basic python libraries for data sciences such as numpy, scipy, matplotlib and pandas. This course is not an introduction to programming, and not a course to improve programming skills. Students are expected to have some experience with introductory / beginner level Python programming.
  • Public Health Analytics: This course aims to establish the foundations of public health analytics to transition data from information to knowledge and actionable wisdom. National data standards, data sources, data management, and approaches to analytics relevant to public health will be covered. This course builds on a foundation of statistics, basic analytics, evidence-based practice, and implementation science.

Public Health Data Learning Center

Cost: Free

• Explore training focused on promoting data equity and data analysis in public health. Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. Course names include:
  • Addressing Rural Health Disparities with Data
  • An Anti-racist Imperative for Public Health Data
  • Centering Racial Equity in Data Use
  • Data Analytics for Health: Utilizing Large Social Media Data
  • Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume II: Communicating Effectively
  • Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume III: Visualizing Data Stories
  • Data Science and Predictive Models in Public Health
  • Decolonizing Data to Address Missing and Murdered Womxn
  • Encoding Useful Information from Clinical Free-Texts Using Natural Language Processing
  • How Do You Center Racial Equity Throughout the Data Life Cycle?
  • How Not to Use Data Like a Racist
  • Leading Change in Informatics and Data Analysis
  • Predicting Inpatient Deterioration: From Quality Improvement to Research
  • Preventative Medicine Grand Rounds - Big Data Analytics and Applications in Public Health
  • Public Health 101 Series - Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
  • Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics 

Building Better Training

Cost: Free

• If you want to build a better training from start to finish, check out the new tools and resources from CDC's Training Development website. Analyze your training need with the six-step guide to determine if training is the solution to a performance gap.  If training is needed, a needs analysis using the checklist on this page, can help ensure your training will build the knowledge, skills, and abilities of your unique learners. After your training is over, postcourse and follow-up evaluations provide feedback to check if the training met your program's needs. With this flexible evaluation template, you can gather information about your learners immediately after the training ends or as delayed follow-up, to make decisions about future trainings. You can find help with both the Analyze and Evaluate phase of training development with these new tools and resources. 

DEAL Session 1: Best Practices for Developing Quality Distance-based Training

Cost: Free

• Dynamic Education And Learning (DEAL) is designed for public health professionals who want to elevate the quality of the distance-based trainings they develop and deliver. The series covers training planning, promotion, implementation and evaluation. Although much of the content is developed with distance-based training in mind, many concepts can also be applied in in-person trainings as well. Session 1 covers key terminology, e-learning standards, best practices and unique considerations for engaging in the distance-learning environment.  

DEAL Session 2: Developing a Strong Foundation for Your Training

Cost: Free

• Session 2 covers how to define and learn about a target audience, develop learning objectives, create appealing titles and descriptions, and ways to promote training offerings. 

Deal Session 3: introduction to Technology for Teaching and Assessment

Cost: Free

• Session 3 covers technology tools and the selection of appropriate strategies and technologies for teaching and assessment.  

Deal Session 4: How to create Engaging Webinars and Interactive Slideshows

Cost: Free

• Session 4 covers webinars and interactive slideshows, and discusses the value of interaction in adult learning and how technology can be used to engage learners. 

Deal Session 5: Developing Training Evaluations

Cost: Free

• Session 5 covers methods of evaluation, Kirkpatrick’s levels of evaluation, effective survey questions, and strategies of data collection. 

Applied Outbreak Investigation

Cost: Free

• Developed by the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence (CoE), Applied Outbreak Investigation training is an intermediate-level course designed to teach epidemiological skills during a foodborne outbreak investigation. This course is designed for state and local public health agency staff who may be involved in foodborne outbreak investigations.

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
  • Data-Based Decision-Making and Management
  • Contact Tracing / Interviewing (History Collection)
  • Effective Communication
  • Epidemiology Concepts
  • Communicable Disease
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.  

GET PHIT: Epidemiology

Cost: Free

• This course will introduce learners to the basics of epidemiology, including methods and research designs. In addition, we will discuss how to obtain large datasets; how to assure that the data are appropriately “matured,” and how data and information systems can be used to understand public health issues in populations.  

Public Health Data and Learning Center: Boots on the Ground. Part 1: Foundational Epidemiology

Cost: Free

• Explore training focused on fundamental concepts in population health data. Topics include the core functions and essential services of public health, public health informatics, public health surveillance, and more. Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. 

An Equity Guided Approach to Public Health for Leaders at All Levels

Cost: Free

• This course will teach you the definitions, value-driven actions, and further learning needed to develop your leadership approach to health equity. You’ll think about applying the actions and skills in your scope of influence.  Over time, developing your equity-guided approach will allow you to incorporate health equity principles into public health strategies and programs, and increase engagement and partnership. Continuing Education available.

Connecting Compassion and Technology: How Website Accessibility Boosts Visibility and Search Engine Optimization

Cost: Free

• Discover the basics of website accessibility and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as Dr. Amanda Diver, a Physical Therapist turned website developer, shares expert insights and practical strategies in this webinar. Amanda will guide attendees to identify areas for improvement and implement effective strategies to enhance compliance and search engine rankings. Continuing Education available.

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response Access Herework? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
  • Systems & Strategic Thinking
  • Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
  • Change Management
  • Justice, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • Data-Based Decision-Making and Management
  • Professional Growth & Responsibility
  • Policy Engagement & Environmental Change
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.  

Cross-Sector Leadership and Health Equity (Podcast)

Cost: Free

• This podcast is a panel discussion of the collective impact as a framework for guiding cross-sector partnership. 

Culturally Competent Public Health Practice for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Populations

Cost: Free

• In 2016, the National Institute of Health, Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) reported that 15% of American adults had reported some form of trouble hearing. In parallel to this is the growing concern over the lack of interpreters and how this affects the health field and medical service providers. With an obvious chasm in communication, the need for culturally relevant information is evident.

• This training will present tools and knowledge for working with the deaf and hard of hearing community, as well as common misconceptions about deaf culture and sub-cultures within the community.

Equity in Motion: Moving Beyond the Conceptual Into Actionable

Cost: Free

• Keynote from PHSAD's 35th annual Minority Health Equity Conference, Equity in Motion
• Gyasi C. Chisley will present about his background as an African-American Healthcare Executive Leader and navigating the complexities of ascending the corporate ladder in the United States. Additionally, Gyasi will expound upon the respective inequities he encountered throughout the duration of career and his solution-oriented approach for tangible change.

Foundations of Health Equity Self-Guided Training Plan

Cost: Free

• CDC’s Office of Health Equity exists to ensure that health equity is embedded in all our public health work. OHE is pleased to provide the Foundations of Health Equity Training Plan. This self-guided, online training plan is designed to facilitate foundational knowledge and skill development on topics related to health equity, health disparities, and structural and social determinants of health. The training plan contains thirteen, on-demand trainings that cover six health equity-related domains, including organizational policy, infrastructure, communication, community engagement, and racism. The Foundations of Health Equity training plan can benefit individuals who are new to health equity or may want to learn about new concepts and approaches.

GET PHIT: Health Equity

Cost: Free

• This course will introduce learners to the field of health equity and train students to critically understand how the nature of data collection, interpretation and use shape health outcomes. Students will review approaches used to detect and reduce health disparities among various groups of individuals across the global sociodemographic spectrum. 

Health Equity in Dementia — Using a Public Health Lens to Advance Health Equity in Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

Cost: Free

• This interactive online course addresses health equity in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias from a population-based, life-course approach to reduce risk and ensure that everyone can live their best life after a diagnosis. Create an account and "Add to Cart" to begin the free, interactive module.  

How to be Anti-Racist in the Everyday Practice of Public Health

Cost: Free

• Each day, we have opportunities to fight racism and bias in our work in public health. From our hiring practices to microaggressions that occur in internal meetings to the data we collect to the policies we influence, enact, and enforce — racism and bias impact all facets of public health. Studies show that this ultimately causes a negative impact on health outcomes and hinders our efforts to reduce racial inequities in health.
• Through a hypothetical case study, following the day of a local public health practitioner, this training explores: 1) The myriad ways that racism and bias can be operationalized in the everyday practice of public health; 2) Why being explicit about microaggressions, bias, and racism is foundational to eliminating racial health disparities; and 3) Practical strategies for addressing racism, bias, and microaggressions as essential aspects of everyday practice in public health.
• Continuing Education available. 

Implicit Bias: Using Brain Science to Understand Science to Understand, Recognize, and Counter It

Cost: Free

• Many of our communities and organizations are seeking to understand how stigma and discrimination interacts within our system and personal behaviors, and distorts individual and public health outcomes. This has created a focus on Implicit Bias and Diversity and Inclusion trainings, however the research shows us that spotting unconscious bias in your own mind, in the moment, is almost impossible. So how do we change our biases, and our behaviors? Join us to explore and challenge implicit bias by working with the architecture of the brain, not against it. Continuing Education available for an additional cost.

Introduction to Health Equity and Racial Justice

Cost: Free

• By grounding health equity work in a clear analysis of the root causes of inequities, we are better equipped to identify the strategies required to achieve health for all. This recorded webinar will serve as an introduction to exploring a racial justice and power framework as a way to center equity in organizational practices. Continuing Education available for an additional cost.

Public Health Data and Learning Center

Cost: Free

• Explore training focused on promoting data equity. Topics include collecting, reporting, and analyzing social determinants of health (SDOH) data, decision-making for equitable distribution of health resources, and more. Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. Course names include:
  • Addressing Health Equity: A Public Health Essential
  • Addressing Rural Health Disparities with Data
  • Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series
  • An Anti-racist Imperative for Public Health Data
  • Building Inclusive Data Visualizations
  • Centering Racial Equity in Data Use
  • Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume II: Communicating Effectively
  • Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume III: Visualizing Data Stories
  • Decolonizing Data to Address Missing and Murdered Womxn
  • How Do You Center Racial Equity Throughout the Data Life Cycle?
  • How Not to Use Data Like a Racist
  • Public Health Essentials in Action Online
  • Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics 
  • Understanding Population Health Concepts

Racism, Bias, and Other Determinants of Health: Issues and Actions

Cost: Free

• During this webinar we will discuss racism and social determinants of health, and the role bias plays in healthcare decision making as well as its impact on adverse health outcomes. We will discuss how our backgrounds inform our perspectives and how we relate to colleagues and patients. We will also explore strategies that students and physicians can employ to mitigate bias.   

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Historical Impact of Population Health Disparities and Finding a Path Toward Equity

Cost: Free

• Health equity—the state in which everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible—is a pressing need and identified priority that state and local health departments are currently trying to address with additional resources and efforts across the country. However, before we can implement effective tools for change, we must first understand the historical context and generational trauma that structural and systemic racism has created. This inequality causes unjust barriers to health, wealth, and resources and continues to plague many communities today with a direct impact on health. This webinar will discuss the practices and policies put in place to specifically disadvantage certain populations throughout history with a higher burden of disease, injury, and violence, and what the public health workforce can do today to improve opportunities for everyone to achieve optimal health. 

CHAMPS/RM-PHTC 2023 Immunization Update

Cost: Free. 

• Available from 6/16-23-2/1/24
• Summary: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Identify important updates to the 2023 ACIP recommended immunization schedule for childhood, adolescents, and adults
• Locate the most recent recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination 
• Locate current vaccination resources for healthcare providers

Preparing for the Upcoming Respiratory Virus Season: Recommendations for Influenza, COVID-19, and RSV Vaccines for Older Adults

Cost: Free

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing for co-circulating influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) this fall and winter. Vaccines can provide life-saving protection against all three viral respiratory diseases. CDC recommends these vaccines for older adults, who are at a higher risk of severe illness from these diseases. Clinicians play a vital role in ensuring that older adults protect themselves by encouraging them to stay up to date on influenza, COVID-19, and RSV vaccinations.
• During this COCA Call, CDC presenters will provide updates about the latest recommendations and clinical considerations for administering influenza, COVID-19, and RSV vaccines to adults 60 years and older and discuss resources and communication strategies that may help facilitate older adult vaccination.

Change Management - Using the ADKAR Model for Individual and Organizational Change

Cost: Free. 1 hour. 

• Continuing Education: 1 CE

• Summary: What is the ADKAR model and how is it used effectively to manage change in your public health organization? his course introduces the idea of change management, specifically the ADKAR model. This model can be used by public health leaders to ease the process of change within an organization and increase the likelihood that changes will be successfully implemented. Learners will have the opportunity to use a real health department scenario to apply ADKAR and better understand how it to use it in their own work.

  • After completing the training, you will be able to:
  • Define change management
  • Recognize the steps of the ADKAR model of change management
  • Explain how a collaborative approach can be integrated with the ADKAR model
  • Apply  the ADKAR model in a Health Department case study
  • Discuss the importance of change management to public health practice

Coaching Skills

Cost: Free

• As a manager, you wear two hats that can be difficult to manage effectively. On one hand, you have to evaluate your employees and make decisions regarding promotions, demotions, salary actions, and terminations. On the other hand, you are also a coach and an advocate for your employees' success. Employees may be reluctant to be frank and discuss weaknesses or mistakes. While there is no perfect solution, this course will help you understand the problems and provide a strategy to effectively balance these two inherently conflicting roles.

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
  • Systems & Strategic Thinking
  • Resource Management
  • Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
  • Change Management
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.  

Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH)

Cost: Free

• ASTHO and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine, with funding support from CDC-CSTLTS, have created a new leadership development program titled the Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH). This program increases and strengthens participants’ visibility and exposure in public health systems, access to key networks, and leadership development opportunities.
• Our program seeks to achieve this goal by:
  • Empowering participants to be more visible in governmental public health.
  • Expanding access to key networking opportunities for participants.
  • Enhancing participant personal leadership identity. 
  • Creating strategic leadership development plans. 
  • Developing peer support network connections. 
• DELPH was designed to enhance the capacity and strengthen the networks of mid- to senior-level governmental public health professionals from identity groups that are under-represented in public health leadership. Program participants will be selected from experienced public health professionals who self-identify from an underrepresented group, including people of color, disability status, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

Effective Management Strategies 1: Tips for the New Manager

Cost: Free

• This panel is the first in a two-part series on strategies for improved management in public health. During this recorded webinar, panelists addressed challenges faced by new managers in supervising staff during the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., remote supervision). Panelists discussed ways of creating professional development opportunities and mentorship plans for and with their employees. Participants will also learn strategies to treat staff with a focus on the health and wellbeing of the whole individual, not solely the employee that comes to work.

Effective Management Strategies 2: Mentorship and More

Cost: Free

• This webinar is the second in a two-part series on strategies for improved management in public health. During this live webinar, there will be discussion around various formats of mentorship programming that can be adapted organization-wide or tailored to work areas. There will be an in-depth look at the most common traditional mentorship architecture and individual professional development plans will also be discussed.

Introduction to Workforce Development Planning for PHAB Accreditation

Cost: Free

• Welcome to the eLearning course Introduction to Workforce Development Planning for PHAB Accreditation. This course is made up of 7 modules designed to assist local health department staff to prepare for the Domain 8 requirements for PHAB accreditation, with a focus on the development and implementation of a workforce development plan.
  
  The 7 modules that make up the course are:
  
  1. Introduction to Domain 8: Maintaining a Competent Workforce (8 minutes)
  2. Getting Started: Top Ten Tips for Planning (11 minutes)
  3. Get to Know the Workforce Development Plan (12 minutes)
  4. Setting a Vision for Workforce Development (10 minutes)
  5. Training Needs: Data Gathering (21 minutes)
  6. Training Needs: Curriculum Creation (12 minutes)
  7. Implementing Your Workforce Development Plan (12 minutes)
  
  Please note that the completion times for each module are approximate. As a self-paced course, individual users may move faster or slower through each module. 

Key Aspects of Financial Management

Cost: Free

• This course covers budgeting and some of the sources of revenue and expenditures associated with health services organizations, including those that provide clinical services. It provides a high level introduction to Financial Management concepts and skills like managing a budget, and it will also expose you to financial performance improvement tools in more depth.

Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills: What is Strategic Planning and How Do I Prepare?

Cost: Free

• This course provides local health departments (LHDs) with guidance around preparing for, and implementing an agency strategic planning process. Separated into two modules, this course offers detailed guidance around the steps in a strategic planning process, practical LHD examples, a description of the Public Health Accreditation Board's strategic planning requirements, and a variety of resources.

Leading Improvement Projects

Cost: Free

• In this online training, we’ll review from start to finish what to expect in a quality improvement (QI) project. This training was developed for people that will be helping to facilitate QI projects within their agency and are looking for tools, templates and experience with doing so.

Moving from Team Member to Manager

Cost: Free 

• Continuing Education: 1.75 MCHES Category I CECH, CE and certificate of completion are $6
• Summary: So, you’re a new manager – congratulations! You might be experiencing challenges transitioning from a team member to the manager. This course will use the foundation of adaptive leadership theory and change management to help you examine your own leadership style, create a leadership philosophy, develop a concrete plan to improve team dynamics, and describe an effective approach to having those dreaded difficult conversations. You’ll leave with real-world tools that you can apply to your management approach and your team to ensure a smooth transition from team member to manager.

Public Health Data and Learning Center

Cost: Free

• Explore training focused on the process of organizational change for people, organizations, and data systems. Topics include stress and resiliency, organizational change management, change leadership, and more. Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. 
  • Change Management Principal for Public Health Modernization
  • Change Management: How Leadership Can Support Staff During Crises
  • Embracing the Inevitable: Practical Change Management
  • Leading Change in Informatics and Data Analysis
  • Managing Change: The Essential Leadership Skill
  • Strategic Skills Training Series: Introduction to Change Management

Quality Improvement 101

Cost: Free

• This interactive course teaches the fundamentals of quality improvement (QI) and how to use this methodology to create effective, beneficial change. Lessons and exercises go over important elements such as the model for improvement, Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, implementation and spread. The course is just the beginning for creating a real culture of change that fosters improvement for all.
• The objectives are Quality Improvement 101 are to educate users on the fundamentals of QI, explain the necessary tools and skills involved with QI, and empower users to initiate their own QI work.

Quality Improvement 102

Cost: Free

• Building on Quality Improvement 101, this interactive course provides further insight into the quality improvement best practices needed to create effective change. The course reviews the concepts covered in QI 101, and then gives direction on how to test improvement ideas and increase their impact and effectiveness. Lessons and exercises provide examples of best practices and offer direction on moving from one PDSA cycle to another. The course is the next step in gaining the knowledge to create a real culture of change that fosters improvement for all.

Roadmap to a Culture of Quality Improvement

Cost: Free

• A guide to leadership and success in local health departments. Explore change management, foundational elements of a culture of quality, phases of a culture of quality, QI SAT V2.0, develop a QI plan, and quality improvement resources. 

CHAMPS/RM-PHTC 2023: Family Planning Refresher Course

Cost: Free

• Available from 6/26/23-6/26/24
• Summary: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
  • Conduct a thorough sexual health history with clients
  • Identify all FDA-approved contraceptive methods, effectiveness, risks, and benefits of each
  • Utilize this knowledge to use patient-centered methods to effectively counsel patients interested in contraception
  • Effectively counsel adolescents, LGBTQIA folks, and other specific populations about reproductive and sexual health
  • Offer non-directive pregnancy options counseling

Addressing Mental Health in Public Health Practice (Program-No CE)

Cost: Free

• Summary: This 4-part program provides best practices for implementing trauma-informed resilience-oriented principles and suicide prevention strategies.

Community Assessment: An Introduction to Community Assessment and Data Collection

Cost: Free

• This course provides an introduction to community assessment, data collection and sharing data findings. It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce. There are no prerequisites.

Community Assessment: Conducting Focus Groups

Cost: Free

• Community assessments use qualitative methods to learn about beliefs, values, and perspectives of needs and assets of a community. Qualitative methods include interviews, focus groups, and forums. The purpose of this course is to introduce focus groups as a method to gain valuable community-level data and provide a practical strategy to plan for, conduct, and analyze the results of a focus group. It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce. There are no prerequisites. 

Community Assessment: Conducting Surveys

Cost: Free

• This course provides an introduction to planning for and conducting community surveys. It introduces concepts and applies knowledge and skills that are essential for planning for and conducting a survey and analyzing and disseminating survey data specifically for the purpose of community assessment.  It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce. There are no prerequisites. 

Community Assessment: Conducting Windshield and Walking Tours

Cost: Free

• This course introduces the components of windshield and walking surveys, explains the data collection and analysis process, and discusses how observational data can be used to inform subsequent phases of the community assessment. It is an introductory-level course designed to build competence in data analytics and assessment as well as community engagement in public health professionals, especially those in the governmental public health workforce. There are no prerequisites. 

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
  • Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
  • Justice, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • Policy Engagement & Environmental Change
  • Community Engagement
  • Effective Communication
  • Prevention Education & Service Delivery
  • Planning, Evaluation & Quality Assurance
  • Epidemiology Concepts
  • Communicable Disease
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.

Kidney Health Coach

Cost: Free

• Are you passionate about preventing kidney disease? Do you enjoy educating others about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle? If so, our Kidney Health Coach program may be for you!
• Kidney Health Coach is the American Kidney Fund's free, community health education program. The online Kidney Health Coach training course provides information about preventing, managing and treating kidney disease, as well as living a healthy lifestyle through a series of four modules.
  • Module 1: Welcome and Kidney Basics
  • Module 2: Chronic Kidney Disease Causes, Symptoms and Testing
  • Module 3: Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Module 4: Why this Matters and Next Steps
• Free continuing education credits are available.

Mini MPH for Public Health Professionals

Cost: Free

• The world's health needs are changing - evolving day to day, sometimes even hour to hour. It is the role of public health to investigate pressing challenges and to develop meaningful interventions that improve conditions affecting population health. Through this course created by PHX, and adapted by NEPHTC, local board of health officials in Massachusetts have the opportunity to gain foundational knowledge in public health in order to be more effective health and wellness leaders in their community. Continuing Education available.

Public Health 101

Cost: Free

• The Public Health 101 Series provides an introduction to public health and covers the sciences essential to public health practice. The fundamental scientific components span topics in epidemiology, public health informatics and surveillance, health economics, public health laboratory science, and related fields.

Public Health Data and Learning Center

Cost: Free

• Explore training focused on fundamental concepts in population health data. Topics include the core functions and essential services of public health, public health informatics, public health surveillance, and more. Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. Training courses include:
  • Public Health Essentials in Action Online
  • Understanding Population Health Concepts
  • Public Health 101 Series–Introduction to Public Health Laboratories

The Future of Population Health (Part 1): Public Health Systems and Structures

Cost: Free

• This conversation is the first program in a three-part series convening contributing authors from The Milbank Quarterly’s special issue celebrating its 100th anniversary, titled, “The Future of Population Health: Challenges and Opportunities."
• The second session is “Population Health: Major Challenges” and the final session, is “Policy, Governance, and Structural Determinants of Health.”

The Future of Population Health (Part 2): Population Health: Major Challenges

Cost: Free

• This conversation is the second program in a three-part series convening contributing authors from The Milbank Quarterly’s special issue celebrating its 100th anniversary, “The Future of Population Health: Challenges and Opportunities”.
• The first session is “Public Health Systems and Structures” and the final session, is “Policy, Governance, and Structural Determinants of Health.” Continuing Education available.

The Future of Population Health (Part 3): Governance, and Structural Determinants of Health

Cost: Free

• This conversation is the third program in a three-part series convening contributing authors from The Milbank Quarterly’s special issue celebrating its 100th anniversary, titled, “Policy, Governance, and Structural Determinants of Health."
•  The first session is “Public Health Systems and Structures” and the second session is “Population Health: Major Challenges.” Continuing Education available.

What is Public Health?

Cost: Free

• The world’s health needs are changing – evolving day to day, sometimes even hour to hour. It is the role of public health to investigate pressing health challenges and develop meaningful interventions that improve conditions affecting population health. Local board of health officials in Massachusetts should have a foundational knowledge of public health in order to be more effective health and wellness leaders in their community. Continuing Education available.

The 10 Essential Public Health Services in Action

Cost: Free

• Local health departments are responsible for creating and maintaining conditions that keep people in their communities healthy and safe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has defined and recently updated 10 essential public health services that communities should undertake to protect and promote the health of all people in their community. This training uses a case study (based on an actual infectious disease outbreak) to relate each step of the investigation to one of the 10 essential public health services. Public health professionals should be able to describe each of these essential services, and should work to ensure that all 10 services are provided in their community.

COVID & Non-COVID Communicable Disease Investigation Training Catalog

Cost: Free

• Summary: Looking for training to support your learning in communicable disease response work? The trainings listed in this course catalog is updated on an ongoing basis, so check back for new additions. Trainings in this catalog have been mapped to the Strategic Skills for Public Health Professionals and grouped by common themes below.
• View the topic areas below to see a list of relevant trainings:
  • Systems & Strategic Thinking
  • Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
  • Justice, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • Professional Growth & Responsibility
  • Policy Engagement & Environmental Change
  • Community Engagement
  • Effective Communication
• This course catalog includes learning opportunities from the CDC and the Public Health Learning Network.