Rural South Public Health Training Center

LIVE EVENT MAY 23rd

Mark Hart — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:32:54 +0000

Perinatal HIV Prevention Symposium

@ Alachua County Health Department (12pm-2:30pm)

NEW CEU COURSE:

Mark Hart — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:04:01 +0000

“HIV and Public Health”-

This Session Will:

• Explain the role of public health disciplines in prevention and management of HIV infection.
• Describe the basic history, biology, and natural history of HIV.
• Recite the most common modes of HIV transmission and how they may vary across the globe.
• Identify epidemiologic trends worldwide, in the US, and in Florida.
• Describe biological and behavioral prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS.
• Discuss issues related to HIV testing.
• Identify sources of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

(LINK TO SESSION)

Miss a Session?

Mark Hart — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:14:54 +0000

If you missed a previous CEU session, they are still available online for CEU credits… take a look at the previous Continuing Education courses offered by the Rural South Public Health Training Center

Meet the Core Staff of the Center

Mark Hart — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:06:23 +0000

Please continue on to read more about our new center staff and their roles and experience.

Meet the Management Committee

Mark Hart — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:40:10 +0000

On Friday, January 20th members from the University of Florida and Florida Agricultual and Mechanical University joined for a Rural South Public Health Training Center meeting. The meeting focused on the lauch of our new CEU courses (starting the end of January!) and our two certificate programs beginning in the Fall. Features on new staff members will be posted soon.

Rural South Public Health Training Center now on iTunes U !

Mark Hart — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:49:48 +0000

The Rural South Public Health Training Center can now be found on iTunes U. Each month we will be placing our new continuing education session in iTunes U, which will be available to view on a computer and download on all Apple products. To earn Continuing Education credits one will still need to visit: http://ruralsouthphtc.phhp.ufl.edu/continuous-education/sessions/ to register and complete other related activities.

The Rural South Public Health Training Center can be found on iTunes U at: https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/ufl.edu.13093260050.013093260052

To view the sessions, one will need to have iTunes installed. To download iTunes, visit: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

RSPHTC Unveils New Logo!

Mark Hart — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:59:34 +0000

The Rural South Public Health Training Center introduces its new logo which is to highlight:

Our fully online capabilities to deliver CEU credits and Certifcate programs
Our hub centers at the University of Florida and the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Each connection on the “circuit board” represents a county we are working to partner and offer programs

Special thanks to Quinn Lundquist for a great design!

UF receives $2.5 million to establish rural public health training center

Mark Hart — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:51:10 +0000

The College of Public Health and Health Professions has partnered with Florida A&M University’s Institute of Public Health to establish the Rural South Public Health Training Center.

Project Description

Mark Hart — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:46:00 +0000

The Rural South Public Health Training Center is a collaborative project of the University of Florida (UF) College of Public Health and Health Professions and the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) Institute of Public Health. The center is designed to serve medically underserved counties in Florida, especially those in rural regions of the state, by providing competency-based training for the public health workforce, enhancing public health services, and decreasing disparities in access to those services. The center will identify the needs of the workforce and residents in medically underserved areas and tailor training and services based on those needs, with a special emphasis on needs related to HIV/AIDS.

Since travel, even within Florida, has been greatly curtailed in the past two years, the center will focus its efforts on providing online training to increase the accessibility and convenience of the programs being offered. Free distance courses will allow public health workers to stay current in their fields and to increase the breadth of their knowledge without having to use professional or personal resources for travel. The distance courses will provide continuing education credits for up to 500 public health workers per year. For public health professionals with a Bachelor’s degree who are interested in more intensive training, 15-credit online certificates in Public Health Foundations and in Prevention and Management of HIV will be available.

The center will also participate in community-based projects in collaboration with state and community partners, and provide paid internships for Master of Public Health (MPH) students who engage in the community projects. A special emphasis will be assigned to HIV/AIDS in needs assessment, workforce training, community projects, and student internships. These activities will be guided by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, federal Implementation Plan, July 2010.

HHS Awards Schools of Public Health $6.4 Million in PHTC Grants

Mark Hart — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:43:43 +0000

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week $6.4 million in new grant funding to ten Schools of Public Health. These grants will support the Health Resource and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Public Health Training Center (PHTC) Program, which provides public health workforce education and training in a wide array of areas, ranging from environmental health and public health leadership, to nutrition and cultural competency.

ASPH assists HRSA in coordinating the PHTC program. Upon receiving notice of the awards, Dr. Harrison Spencer, president of ASPH, said, “We commend HHS for its commitment to furthering public health workforce education, particularly in this era of tight resources. We appreciate the fact that the contributions of the PHTC program to the nation’s public health capacity have been recognized by HHS.”

The newly funded PHTCs join existing centers for a total of 37 training centers nationwide. The awards’ impact is significant, as it expands the national educational network that will provide highly-skilled training to nearly 500,000 public health and related health care practitioners each year.

Schools of Public Health receiving PHTC awards are:

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health
University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
University of Iowa College of Public Health
University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health
Yale School of Public Health

The PHTC awards are part of over $40 million in grant funding to health departments and Schools of Public Health to enhance the nation’s public health infrastructure and strengthen the public health workforce. ASPH recognizes that this funding will improve the delivery of necessary public health services in communities, cities and states across the country. In addition to the PHTC Program, the grant dollars will also fund the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Public Health Improvement Initiative Strengthening Public Health Infrastructure for Improved Health Outcomes grant program.

For more information about the 2011 HHS awards, click here. To see the schools that were awarded PHTC grants last year, click here.