EMORY UNIVERSITY ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
REGION IV PUBLIC HEALTH TRAINING CENTER
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he center’s Pathways to Practice Scholars field placement program provides current public health students the opportunity to gain practical experience working with seasoned public health practitioners (mentors) in underserved communities or populations. Since 2015, almost 60 students have been placed at sites across the region’s eight states, including 19 rural sites and 31 primary care settings. Most of the placements were at local health departments (40%), state health departments (22%) and area health education centers (17%).
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2019 LHD Annual Partners Guide
The Region IV Public Health Training Center is one of ten regional training centers in the Public Health Learning Network. The center consists of a central office, located at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and six partner institutions (known as “local performance sites”). Its assigned content area is infectious disease and its geographic area is Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The center provides public health workforce training, faculty and student collaborative projects, and student field placements and training based on the Council on Linkages’ Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals.
Most of the center’s competency-based training for public health professionals training is free and may offer continuing professional education credits. The training for professionals includes webinars (live and on demand), interactive lectures (including satellite, archived and in person) and skill-based training (virtual and in person). Health Equity in the Face of Change: Tools for a National Campaign Against Racism is one of Region IV’s on-demand webinars and is available online. In this webinar, Dr. Camara Jones helps participants understand the three dimensions of health intervention: providing health services, addressing
