Developing educational content

The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP) develops courses, tabletop exercises, and educational content for practice-based continuing education in the areas related to workforce development and emergency preparedness.

• Bioterrorism & Emergency Preparedness
• Environmental Health
• Epidemiology & Surveillance
• General Public Health Practice
• Leadership & Management
• Public Health Law
• Risk Communication

Visit our Courses & Exercises page for more information.

Conducting training

NWCPHP coordinates on-site and distance learning courses on a range of topics of interest to public health professionals.

Our monthly Web conferencing series, Hot Topics in Preparedness, offers regular presentations and discussion forums on key issues in preparedness.

Presenting institutes

NWCPHP works with our partners and faculty to provide a variety of workforce development and leadership training institutes across the Northwest region.

Public health training institutes are held each year, including the Summer Institute for Public Health Practice and similar annual institutes we support with a number of our regional partners. Training topics respond to the interests of our audiences and have ranged from epidemiology to management to emergency preparedness issues.

NWCPHP developed the Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute to provide a year-long distance learning training in the leadership skills and knowledge necessary for public health practice.

Providing technical assistance

NWCPHP provides assistance to groups in the Northwest region who are working on public health preparedness and workforce development. Specific activities include:

• Training needs assessments
• Pharmaceutical deployment
• Public Health Ready project support
• Training plan development
• Epidemiological response team development

Coordinating special projects

NWCPHP coordinates a number of special projects related to workforce and public health improvement.

Environmental Health
NWCPHP offers training to incorporate the Essential Public Health Services into environmental health practice. It also houses the Regional Academic Environmental Public Health Center.

Bioterrorism Preparedness
NWCPHP has developed and distributes a tabletop exercise on bioterrorism, and two series of learning modules on key diseases likely to be used in bioterrorism. NWCPHP has also coordinated bioterrorism needs assessments in several states.

Managing the Regional Workforce Development Network

NWCPHP established and coordinates a Regional Network of distance learning specialists and workforce development professionals to facilitate collaborative solutions to addressing the region's workforce development needs.