​TRAIN, the nation’s premier learning management network, has been essential in developing a skilled and competent public health workforce while curtailing travel and training expenses since 2003. TRAIN’s centralized, searchable database is the nation’s most comprehensive catalog of distance learning for public health professionals, containing over 29,000 course listings from over 4,000 training providers. Through TRAIN, the more than 700,000 registered learners have access to courses from nationally recognized course providers offered in the form of web-based learning, on-site learning, and satellite broadcasts for little to no cost.  Some of the other benefits that TRAIN provides to the field of public health are: a uniform architecture to enable data sharing among states, federal agencies, and academic institutions; aggregate reporting; one place for all professionals who protect the public’s health to search for, register, and track participation in learning offered locally, nationally, and internationally; and a consistent way of assigning training plans with identified courses built on the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals, Medical Reserve Corps Competencies, Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competencies, and/or Public Health Preparedness Capabilities.

TRAIN is now ten years old and currently comprised of a total of 28 affiliates (agencies and organizations who each have purchased a customized TRAIN portal) – 25 states (health departments) and 3 national organizations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), and Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA)).  As TRAIN has grown into a robust nationwide system, limitations have arisen and TRAIN no longer meets all of the current needs of the learner, administrator, or course provider community.

With this in mind, Public Health Foundation (PHF) is requesting information on building/re-building TRAIN.  PHF is requesting that interested organizations provide information that will assist in the development of a request for proposal (RFP) to create and move existing data and host and maintain an electronic learning network targeted specifically to the public health workforce, both nationally and internationally.  The same information will be gathered from different companies and will be used to evaluate which suppliers we will follow up the sourcing process with a Request for Proposal (RFP).

If your organization is interested in providing the requested information please feel free to complete the downloadable request for information (RFI) included on this page.  The last date for questions is September 9, 2013 and the last date for submissions is September 16, 2013. 

Please send the completed RFI in PDF format by email to:
Lois Banks
TRAIN Director
lbanks@phf.org

TRAIN RFI Final.pdf