Regional Steering Committee Spotlight: Tanya Uden-Holman
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 […]
Giving Back to My Urban Indian Community
Today we’re sharing the experience of Christina Haswood who completed an internship from by MPHTC in the spring of 2020. In the fall of 2020, she was elected to the […]
Public Health: Always the Bridesmaid
by Taylor Mitchell Carter What seems like a decade ago, I was at a friend’s house for a movie night. My husband kept telling me to put my phone away, […]
MPHTC Student Integral to County COVID-19 Response
Kaci Ginn, an undergraduate student employee with the Midwestern Public Health Training Center, has been an integral part of Jones County, Iowa’s COVID-19 response. She’s been liaising with county departments, […]
Qualitative Analysis for American Indian College Students’ Alternative Tobacco Use
by Christina Haswood The halfway point was around the first week of April where we were coming back from Spring Break. This year, we were all faced with COVID-19 and […]
Quick Tips for Precepting Students
What is a preceptor? Preceptors are a combination of professional mentors and educational instructors. They serve to help students ground their classroom theoretical learnings in professional and practical experiences. How […]
From MPHTC Intern to Black Hawk County Epidemiologist
Aaron says he “never realized how connected every position within a health department is until I started learning workforce development. It has completely changed the way I view public health.”
Giving Back to my Urban Indian Community
by Christina Haswood The Center for American Indian Community Health (CAICH) here at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), goes far back to my middle school days. Back when […]
Exploring Public Health Accreditation’s Impact on Health Equity
by Ashlyn Lipnicky, University of Kansas Medical Center As I looked at my internship mentor and a patient as they discussed diabetes management at a free clinic in downtown Kansas […]
Creating Iowa’s First Workforce Development Coalition
by Aaron Reinke Workforce inequities were shown in the results from the 2017 PH-WINS, which show the need for change. Future plans for Iowa’s public health workforce development could focus […]