Training Opportunities
You will find a full listing of our courses, which can be searched or filtered to better find the right training for your needs.
Importance of Communication During a Crisis for Practitioners (No CE)
This training will discuss the importance of reactive and proactive communication best practices, and will provide best practices for public health practitioners to translate research effectively to public audiences.
HOT TOPIC: MONKEYPOX (NO CE)
This second session of the Preparedness Roundtable Series will focus on the current Monkeypox outbreak throughout the United States, the response to the outbreak, and the stigmatization of gender and sexual minorities.
preparedness roundtable series: from vaccine hesitancy to vaccine confidence (No CE)
This first session of the four-part series will focus on the challenges of vaccine hesitancy and approaches to building vaccine confidence in interpersonal and community settings.
Introduction to evaluating surveillance systems (No Ce)
This training will provide a brief overview of how public health surveillance systems work, what qualities make a surveillance system effective, why these systems are important, and what methodologies are used for evaluation.
Relation to Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats & Pandemic Preparedness (MCIDT)
MCIDT is a bioscience initiative directed by Aubree Gordon. It focuses on establishing the University of Michigan as a leader in infectious disease threats and positioning the university to respond to the current COVID-19 pandemic and other future pandemics.
Audience we serve in Michigan and beyond:
Health departments & other public health practice sites
Academic researchers
Health systems emergency preparedness & infection prevention professionals
Our Mission
Public Health Prepared (PHP or PH Prepared) is the workforce development and public health practice branch of the broader Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats & Pandemic Preparedness (MCIDT) initiative. As such, we contribute to MCIDT’s mission of serving as a convening and coordinating force for the field by engaging cross-sectoral partners to translate research into practice for infectious disease control and prevention.
Our work focuses on building the strategic skills and capacity of the public health workforce, broadly defined, to address emerging infectious disease threats in Michigan and beyond.
Our Blog
Check out our Welcome from the Director…and more coming soon!
How Do We Keep Track of Communicable Disease Surveillance?
Author: Tiffany Henderson, MPH, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Unbeknownst to me in 2004, as a junior at the University of Michigan just starting to understand public health, a team of epidemiologists at the Michigan Health Department was working on...