The Public Health Foundation is dedicated to ensuring public health preparedness through training, quality improvement, and technical assistance. TRAIN (https://www.train.org), a Web-based learning management network, was developed in 2003 in response to state requests for training that would efficiently prepare the public health work force. Made possible through collaborative partnerships among public health organizations, departments and funders, this evolving variety of formats across the training spectrum.

 

TRAIN provides a venue for public health professionals to manage their trainings from classroom-based courses, workshops, exercises, Web-based interactive trainings, as well as 25 additional domains of delivering training. Course providers join a network of more than 3,600 providers of training who currently use TRAIN as a platform on which to ensure access to high-quality education and training and share, collaborate and develop solutions that fill gaps in training.

 

TRAIN supports the training needs of health departments, states and national organizations to promote competency-based training for the public health and first responder workforces responsible for emergency preparedness.

 

We invite your state or organization to take a bird’s eye view of the premier learning management system for public health, TRAIN. If you’d like to become a part of the TRAIN network, please contact TRAIN Director Lois Banks at: lbanks@phf.org.