Training Opportunities

U.S. - Alaska

• Program Evaluation Training - August 29-30, 2011 - The Alaska Native Epidemiology Center (EpiCenter) is offering a training workshop focused on "Program Evaluation" specific to health professionals, health program directors, and managers. The instructor will be Dr. Mark Dignan, Ph.D., MPH, who is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the Prevention Research Center at the University of Kentucky. Space is limited to 30 participants. Travel assistance may be available to those outside the Anchorage/Mat-Su area. The registration fee for this training will be $150.00. Deadline has been extended!!! August 4th, 2011. Open to those within the Alaska Native Tribal Health System.
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• Social Marketing Training - May 4-5, 2011 The Alaska Native Epidemiology Center (EpiCenter) is offering a training seminar on “Social Marketing” specific to health professionals. The training will be delivered by social marketing trainer, Ms. Nancy Lee, MBA. Space is limited to 20-30 participants. Travel assistance may be available to those outside the Anchorage/Mat-Su area. The cost for this training will be $225.00. Deadline to apply is March 28, 2011.
• • "Social Marketing is the use of marketing principles and techniques to influence a target audience behavior that will benefit society, as well as the individual.” Kotler, P, Lee, N. (2006) Marketing in the Public Sector: A Roadmap for Improved Performance Wharton Publishing
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U.S. - Other

• Summer Institue for Public Health Practice - a week long course understanding data and measuring health outcomes. Click for details.
• National Institutes of Health
• • • Main Portal for Information on NIH intramural training programs
    • Summer Internship Program
    • Graduate Partnerships Program
    • Clinical Research Training Program
    • National Human Genome Research Institute Physician-Scientist Development Program
    
    
  • NIHB Public Health Summer Fellowship. The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) believes in the importance of building the public health workforce, where American Indians and Alaska Natives have the capacity to address the health needs of their own communities. Committed to this goal, NIHB has partnered with the Morehouse School of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and the Minority Health Professions Foundation to implement the second annual NIHB Public Health Summer Fellowship Program for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The program is designed to introduce and expose American Indians and Alaska Natives students to public health careers.  Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the NIHB Public Health Summer Fellows program is an academically rigorous and intensive nine (9) week summer program. Students will experience firsthand the excitement, relevance and promise of careers in Public Health.
  • Summer Research Training Institute for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Health Professionals. The NW Portland Area Indian Health Board Research Training is designed to meet the needs of professionals who work in diverse areas of AI/AN health and who want to take advantage of new skill-building opportunities with courses that emphasize research skills and program design and implementation.  Portland, Oregon.
  • Summer Institute Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research (SIPID) - various locations
  • The Healthy Native Communities Fellowship(HNCF) engages a diverse cross-section of emerging leaders through collaborative learning grounded in Native spiritual and cultural perspectives. Since 2005, HNCF has united 60 local teams and over 160 Fellows across the nation. With skills learned during the four, one-week, retreats, Fellows build dynamic bridges between their work and multiple stakeholders.