Webinars, events, trainings

March 2023

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NACCHO is convening a 6-part 2026 World Cup Preparedness Community of Practice to support local health departments, SACCHOs, and other partners planning public health preparedness and response for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Calls are at 1pm ET on every 2nd Friday of the month from March through August.

Webinars + events 

March

Beyond Awareness: Building Equitable Access to PrEP (NACCHO): Mar. 24, 12pm ET

Protecting the Core: Prioritizing Foundational Core Health Services Under Fiscal Constraint (Center for Public Health Systems): Mar. 25, 1pm ET

From PH WINS to Action: Building Career Ladders as a Supervisor (de Beaumont Foundation): Mar. 25, 2pm ET

Innovations in Opioid Settlement Fund Spending (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School): Mar. 25, 4–6:30pm ET; in person in Baltimore and virtual

April

National Public Health Week (APHA): Apr. 6–12

Advocacy 101: Getting Started with Policy Engagement (Johns Hopkins): April 6–24; virtual

Preparedness Summit (NACCHO): Apr. 13–16, Baltimore & virtual – offering a lower virtual registration rate ($495 for government attendees) for its Preparedness Summit through Mar. 31 – valid on new registration only

NatCon (National Council for Mental Wellbeing): Apr. 27–29, Denver

May

HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society): May 9–12, Las Vegas

June

Promo graphic for Drexel Urban Health Summer Institute, June 22-26 in Philadelphia

July

NACCHO360: July 14–17, Louisville

August

We Are the Founders: Writing the Unfinished Story of Our Democracy (PolicyLink): Aug. 24–28, Washington, DC

  • BCHC plans to sponsor a small group of Health and Racial Equity Working Group members to attend this conference. BCHC is also planning social and learning events at the summit
  • Early bird and scholarship deadline: Dec. 31

November

APHA 2026: San Antonio, Nov. 1–4; abstracts due Mar. 31

Recordings of the Consortium for Workforce Research in Public Health 2025 webinar series

Webinar #1: Jan. 21 – Watch recording

  • Evaluating a minimum data set to characterize the PHN workforce
  • Distribution of LHD nurses and nurse leaders relative to local demographics: does distribution match local needs?

Webinar #2: Feb. 5 – Watch recording

  • Insights about the implications of civil service requirements on workforce recruitment
  • nnovative workforce development strategies to address recruitment and public health partnerships

Webinar #3: Feb. 20, 2pm ET – Watch recording

  • Using Staffing Up estimates to compare predicted workforce need to desired workforce need
  • Who should deliver the foundational public health services?

Webinar #4: Mar. 12, 2pm ET – Watch recording

  • Implementation of an evidence-based public health workforce loan repayment program as a recruitment incentive for local, state, tribal, and territorial governmental public health departments
  • Distinguishing characteristics of public health occupations compared with existing standard occupational classification codes

Trainings

Resilience Skills for Public Health Professionals (TRAIN): Mar. 11, 12–2pm ET

ChangeLab Solutions has re-opened its live, virtual training on Finding & Reading the Law; choose from several upcoming dates from Feb.–May

Lyme disease continuing education, four-part series (CDC)

Boston University School of Public Health has made 12 of its online courses available for free on its Teaching Public Health platform; the courses focus primarily on epidemiology and data analysis

Community-based suicide prevention for local health departments (NACCHO) – Self-paced, online, four-part course

Data science and informatics (Public Health Foundation/TRAIN)

How to think like a modeler (University of Texas Center for Health Communication): First in a series of trainings to help public health professionals better understand and use infectious disease modeling

Video course: Understanding tribal treaties and reserved rights (US Department of the Interior): CDC recommends all CDC-funded partner staff working with tribal communities should complete these modules.

Recently updated: Introduction to public health practice (CDC)

Online training: Taking action to protect public health authority (Public Health & Equity Resource Navigator)

CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics has a collection of online courses in its Learning Library.

WHO has regularly updated courses on infodemic management 

Exploring the Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity, and the Law (ChangeLab Solutions/CDC): Watch part 1 & part 2 on TRAIN