Welcome to the Alabama Public Health Training Center (AL PHTC)

AL PHTC Purpose
 
The AL PHTC is one of 38 Public Health Training Centers located throughout the United States established by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. The purpose of the Public Health Training Center Program is to improve the nation’s public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competency of the current and future public health workforce. This program is vital to assuring that the public health workforce has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to address complex public health issues now and into the future.  The AL PHTC will be an integral component of the federal program, particularly in medically underserved areas with medically underserved populations. 
The AL PHTC strengthens the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competence of the current workforce in Alabama and Mississippi by advancing the knowledge and skills of the future public health workforce through programs that meet identified needs in medically underserved areas throughout the states.  Training and education programs developed by the AL PHTC are competency-based, grounded in core public health functions and Essential Public Health Services, and designed to improve the capacity of the public health workforce, including those in community-based organizations providing public health services in underserved areas.  Training and education programs are tailored for specific target audiences and delivered through distance education technologies and on-site programs. 
 
Building on long lasting relationships with public health partners across the partnership region, the AL PHTC investigators are working with practice partners to:
  • Identify workforce development capacity and needs targeting public health workers in community-based organizations (CBO), including those that provide HIV/AIDS prevention and care services, public health nutrition services, maternal and child health services specifically in the medically underserved areas (MUA) of the partnership region.
  • Develop and provide competency-based education and training to improve the capacity of the public health workforce in the underserved areas of Alabama and Mississippi.
  • Develop opportunities for public health faculty, students, and practitioners to work collaboratively on identified public health needs in MUAs and with medically underserved populations (MUP).
  • Provide opportunities for faculty and/or practitioners to mentor public health students in organizations that serve MUAs and MUPs.
     

Upcoming Events/Conferences

 

Enhancing the Public Health Nutrition Workforce:
Strategies to Promote Healthy Diets and Physically Active Lifestyles Conference

Nutrition Conference Active Lifestyles                  Nutrition Conference Healthy Diets

 

Date/Time:  Friday, June 7, 2013  8:30 a.m. (registration begins at 8:00 a.m.) - 2:00 p.m.

Location: Vulcan Park and Museum, 1701 Valley View Dr., Birmingham, AL 35209

 

There is no cost to attend this conference but registration is required.
To register please go to http://www.alphtc.org/nutritionconference2013

 

Conference Overview:

This one-day conference focuses on comprehensive prevention of obesity in children and adolescents.  The conference will address model population/system-based interventions and direct client programs and services that are being implemented throughout the United States. 
 
Speakers:
  • Margaret Adamek, PhD, Founder and Principal of Terra Soma Consulting Services; Minneapolis, MN (Bio)
  • Thomas Baranowski, PhD, Professor and Leader of the Behavioral Nutrition group, with the USDA funded Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (Bio)
  • Cheryl Bartlett, RN, BA, Deputy Commissioner of the MA Department of Public Health (Bio)
  • Bonnie Spear, PhD, RD, Professor, UAB Department of Pediatrics, Birmingham, AL
  • Stephanie Welch, MS-MPH, RD, LDN, Director, Community Development and Planning, Knox County Health Department, Tennessee (Bio)
 
Conference Objectives:
At the conference's conclusion, the participants should be able to:
  • Understand the importance of healthy diets and physical activity for child and adolescent well-being.
  • Identify public health initiatives and partnerships that can be implemented to promote healthy diets and physical activity among children and adolescents.
  • Discuss how to engage children and adolescents to participate in healthy diets and physical activity.
  • Apply elements from cutting-edge initiatives taking place across the United States to local settings.
 
Target Audience:
This conference is designed for public health nutritionists, dietitians, public health researchers and others who are interested in promoting healthy lifestyles among children and adolescents.


Continuing Education Credits Available:
4 hours of continuing education credits will be available to nurses, social workers and dietitians upon conference completion.

For more information please contact Rongbing Xie, MPH, at rongbing@uab.edu or 205-934-2738.

To view the conference brochure with agenda and further information please go to http://www.alphtc.org/sites/default/files/images/June%20Pubic%20Health%20Nutrition%20Conference%20Brochure.pdf.

 

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:

 
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UPCOMING SATELLITE CONFERENCES AND LIVE WEBCASTS


Reinventing Maternal and Child Health: Coordinating the Boundaries Between Social Determinants and Clinical Care 
Thursday, June 13, 2013    12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Central Time)

Faculty:
Mario Drummonds, MS, LCSW, MBA, Executive Director and CEO, Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership, Inc., New York, New York

Program Description:
As changes occur in the field of Maternal and Child Health (MCH), innovative approaches are needed to address critical issues.  Life Course, a perspective that has roots in other disciplines, builds upon collaborations and partnerships in the broader public health system and in other disciplines.  The process of applying Life Course in practice allows for flexibility and innovation and is critical for long-lasting and effective health improvements.  Program faculty will discuss the role each public health professional can play in contributing to this system change and social movement within MCH.

Program Objectives:
  1. Provide a quick summation of the status of the Maternal and Child Health industry in America today.
  2. Communicate an operating framework/matrix to implement a Life Course Approach to MCH practice.
  3. Communicate specific policy and practice strategies for state and local action in Alabama.
  4. Define the leadership mandate to reinvent maternal and child health.

Target Audience:
Pediatricians, nurses, social workers, maternal and child health professionals, public health administrators and educators, academicians.

Continuing Education:
Nurses, social workers (pending)

Registration is free but you must register to view.  Please go to http://adph.org/ALPHTN/Default.asp?id=6145 to register.

The conference flyer is located at http://www.adph.org/ALPHTN/assets/061313flyer.pdf

 

AL PHTC Focus Areas
 
Providing education and training for those working in the areas of:
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Nutrition Services
  • Maternal & Child Health
  • Southeastern Regional Pediatric Disaster Surge Network
  • Social Work
  • Academic Programs

 
AL PHTC Key Partners
 
 
 
Principal funding for the Alabama Public Health Training Center is supported through grant UB6HP22824 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The contents of this program are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HRSA/DHHS.

 

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