Today’s health challenges are complex and require public health professionals to lead large-scale changes that no organization can solve alone. The Public Health Training Center Network has developed the Learning Agenda for System Change Toolkit to help leaders and workforce specialists develop an action-oriented, iterative process to use transformative learning as a driver for lasting change.
This one-hour webinar reviews the need for the toolkit and explores its key elements, including a conceptual learning framework and planning tools, to help build a robust learning agenda and implement systems changes that improve health.
Learning Objectives
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Explain the Learning Agenda for Systems Change framework.
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Distinguish between technical and adaptive challenges.
- Describe how the Learning Agenda for Systems Change can align workforce development planning efforts with community challenges.
Intended Audiences
Workforce development professionals; community health and strategic planners; public health learning specialists and educators
Presenters
Sarah Davis, MNM
Co-Director
Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center
Colorado School of Public Health
Phoebe Kulik, MPH, CHES
Senior Director of Workforce Development
Region V Public Health Training Center
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Christina Welter, DrPH, MPH
Associate Director, Policy, Practice, and Prevention Research Center
University of Illinois Chicago, School of Public
Discussion Questions
- What are the differences between technical and complex challenges?
- What are some of the biggest health challenges facing your community today?
- How would you apply elements of the learning agenda framework to your work?
Resources
Visit Public Health Learning Agenda to download your copy of the Toolkit.
The Public Health Training Center Network is a national coalition of 10 Regional Public Health Training Centers and their partners organized to meet public health workforce development needs.
