This course developed by the Region 2 Public Health Training Center (PHTC) aims to describe the integral role that community health workers (CHWs) can play in public health departments. After
Organization: Region 2 - Public Health Training Center
Health Disparity within The Transgender Community
Individuals who identify as transgender are at greater risk of health disparity. Understanding that gender is not binary is vital to helping clients receive appropriate services. Helping those who do
Health Disparities in HIV: Supporting Adolescents through the HIV Care Continuum
This webinar explores the specific challenges associated with ensuring adolescents are able to access HIV screening and treatment. Dr. Amanda Tanner provides background on adolescent’s biological, cognitive, social, and legal
Hair as a Social Determinant of Health Among Black Adolescent Girls
Hair is perceived as a socio-cultural barrier to physical activity among a group that is disproportionately affected by obesity, overweight, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease. Culturally relevant research
Flourishing through Adversity: How Can Stress and Emotional Experiences Make Us Resilient and Avoid Burnout
How do you handle stress and stressors at work, school, and life? In this session, current research in positive psychology, emotionality, and health will be presented. Dr. Gloria will discuss
Collective Impact Part II: Mutually Reinforcing Activities, Continuous Communication, and Backbone Support
This module is part two of a two-part introductory series to the Collective Impact framework. In this module, participants build upon the lessons of part one by learning about the
Adaptive Leadership: Strategies for Public Health
In this month’s Log-in2Learn, Emil Sadloch presents on the leadership approach known as ?Adaptive Leadership.? He begins by defining ?Adaptative Leadership? and explaining the difference between technical and adaptive situational
Adaptation to Stress: Five Practices to Cultivate Resilience and Work-Life Wellbeing
In this month’s Log-in2Learn, Dr. Mary Steinhardt presents practices that can be used to adapt to change and stressful situations, promoting resilience and work-life wellbeing. She starts by defining work-life
Activism and Health Promotion: A Primer
The lecture addresses the considerations made by activists in health advocacy work, such as: opportunities for conciliation, confrontation, or compromise; rhetoric and framing of messages; audience sensitivity in social movements;
Achieving Health Equity through Community Control of Budgets
Jennifer Godenzo discusses how it applies to the ?ladder of participation? by giving citizens control and is thus equitable, empowering, and focuses on the social determinants of health. She explains