The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified ten Winnable Battles, public health priorities with large-scale impact on health and with known, effective strategies to address them. The ten Winnable Battles include:
- Food Safety
- Global Immunization
- Healthcare-associated Infections
- HIV in the U.S.
- Lymphatic Filariasis in the Americas
- Motor Vehicle Injuries
- Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
- Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV & Syphilis Globally
- Teen Pregnancy
- Tobacco
By identifying priority strategies and clear targets and by working closely with their public health partners, CDC can make significant progress in reducing health disparities and the overall health burden from these public health concerns.1 It is important for the public health community to utilize economies of scale in order to employ innovative solutions that help train the public health workforce to tackle the Winnable Battles. By working together these public health concerns can be overcome.
TRAIN, the nation’s premier learning management system for professionals and volunteers who protect the public’s health, offers training on many of CDC’s Winnable Battles. Trainings on
Food Safety,
Tobacco, and
Healthcare-associated Infections are examples of three topic areas covered by trainings on TRAIN.
We encourage organizations with available training on one or more of CDC’s Winnable Battles to post those trainings to TRAIN and make them available to the over one-half million public health professionals using TRAIN today. By making Winnable Battles training available on TRAIN, the wider public health community can become more informed and work together to defeat the Winnable Battles. TRAIN links directly to the training site and therefore serves as another venue to reach learners and introduce them to your organization.
If you are interested in posting a training to TRAIN, an instructional video is available at: http://coscorm.train.org/Page%202/how_to_become_a_course_provider.html.
1Winnable Battles. http://www.cdc.gov/WinnableBattles. Accessed February 1, 2012.