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The Open Forum: Next Gene​ration (NxGen), presented by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), will be held virtually from January 25-27, 2022. Designed to provide public health practitioners with an opportunity to learn and engage with peers, NxGen offers robust content around critical topics currently facing both the public health and the healthcare workforce. NxGen establishes a learning continuum that strengthens the capacity for practitioners to respond to future public health needs and provides skills and resources to bolster the new generation of public health workers.

 

NxGen offers three learning tracks:

Each track will feature sessions focused on five cross-cutting topics relevant to public health post-COVID-19:

​PHF staff and experts will lead five sessions at NxGen:

Presenter: Vanessa Lamers, MPH, MESc, Assistant Director, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF

Presenters: Abdullah Tauqeer, Project Associate, PHF, and Ron Bialek, MPP, President and CEO, PHF

Presenters: Sonja Armbruster, MA, Performance Improvement Expert, PHF; Mona Zuffante, MPH, Public Health Administrator, Winnebago Public Health Department (NE); and Linae Bigfire, MS, Accreditation Coordinator/PM/QI, Winnebago Public Health Department (NE)

Presenters: Gabrelle Taylor, MPH, Project Manager, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF, and Vanessa Lamers, MPH, MESc, Assistant Director, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF

Presenters: Ka​thleen Amos, MLIS, Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, PHF, and Ron Bialek, MPP, President and CEO, PHF

To register for NxGen, visit the conference web​site.