Kira King Our next spotlight is Kira, who just recently joined us in the fall 0f 2020! Like everyone else, she does a lot every day like managing training, procuring professional development opportunities, facilitating educational field experiences for students and residents, linking volunteers into positions that support the work of their organization, and ultimately, […]
Maya Chilese Introducing our next spotlight, Maya Chilese! Like many of us, she has no sense of time after the last year so she thinks its been 3 years since she has been involved with the MPHTC! Currently, she is preparing for their reaccreditation application so every day is “chaos”. She is consumed with […]
Tanya Uden-Holman Tanya has been involved with us since we were originally funded by HRSA in 2001! She says that although the states and practice partners involved in the training center have evolved over time, the goal of the training center is still fundamentally the same: ensuring the current and future public health workforce has […]
Roger Hileman Our next RSC spotlight is Roger, who has been involved with us for a little over a year! He does a lot of the data stuff – analyzing performance data, planning evaluations, and developing assessments. He believes that MPHTC provides meaningful student experiences, develops robust workforce training and assessments, and expands its […]
Sonja Armbruster Our next spotlight is Sonja, who has been involved with MPHTC since 2014, supporting the Kansas site as part of the new PHTC configuration with the 10 HRSA Region training centers. Like our other public healthers, each day is different! She teaches in WSU’s Department of Public Health Sciences; her courses […]
Kevin Greime Kevin has been involved with us for at least 6 years! When asked about his day-to-day work life he says, “sporadic, chaotic, and never mundane!” After all, when you work with staff and community partners, you need to have flexibility in your work day as you never know when a new opportunity will […]
Colleen Svodoba This Regional Steering Committee Spotlight is dedicated to Colleen, who has been involved for around three years while at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and then at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health. She supports the public health practice community in her day-to-day work in Nebraska […]
Tim Beachy Meet Tim, who has been involved with MPHTC since it’s inception – he’s been at the Institute for Public Health Practice for 16 years! He works more on the programming and technical side of things by setting up course functionality, solving technical problems, producing data and reports, updating content, programming new functionality, […]
Lina Tucker Reinders, MPH Lina has been involved with MPHTC for almost two years. Like many public health-ers, her day as the Executive Director of the Iowa Public Health Association (IPHA) is incredibly busy – mostly due to COVID-19. She is working hard to maintain strong relationships with both state and local public health, […]
Stacey Coleman Since 2016, Stacey has been working with the Office of Public Health Practice at the UNMC College of Public Health, predominantly being involved in clerical and organizational work. When asked about the value of MPHTC, she says that it gives the states the opportunity to collaborate in ways that they may not be […]
