Communication Skills
Module 3.2: 5 Learning Opportunities
This module builds on what we learned about this competency by introducing you to 5 learning opportunities from the MCH Navigator catalog.
Click below to: Learn more with our 5 learning opportunities, Comment on this module's trainings, and Interact with other MCH professionals who are also taking the Public Health Pronto program.
LEARN
These 5 learning opportunities represent some of the most relevant and/or recent online trainings in the field and have been chosen based on their ease of access, focus, brevity, and their integration with principles necessary to advance the transformation of the MCH Block Grant. Trainings have been identified by MCH Navigator staff and further vetted by a group of MCH experts in the states and in academic settings.
Take one or all of the trainings to sharpen your knowledge and skills, either individually or with your colleagues as a team-building exercise.
- Communications Messaging: How & Why. Date Developed: Unkown. Source: CityMatCH. Presenter(s): Adam Shapiro. Format: Webinar Archive. Length: 21 minutes.
- Culture and Health Literacy: Beyond Access–Communication and Its Implications for Health Disparities. Year Developed: 2010. Source: University of Minnesota Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach. Presenter(s): K. Viswanath. Type: Video Webinar. Level: Introductory. Length: 30 minutes.
- Social Communication Strategies for Public Health. Year Developed: 2016. Source: Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Presenter(s): Brittany Seymour. Type: Video Lecture. Level: Intermediate. Length: 60 minutes.
- Strategies for Successful Public Health Messaging. Year Developed: 2013. Source: Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. Presenter(s): Tim Church; James Apa. Type: Webinar Archive. Level: Advanced. Length: 60 minutes.
- Communicating Science: Translating Research for Policy and Practice. Year Developed: 2013. Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Women’s and Children’s Health Policy Center. Presenter(s): Marjory Ruderman, MHS. Type: Video Slide Module. Level: Introductory. Length: 19 minutes.
For additional learning opportunities, see the MCH Navigator's Communication Learning Bundle.
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COMMENT
Comment on the Learning Opportunities...
Share your learning experiences with others here. Explain how you will use what you have learned, ask questions about the trainings, or suggest additional trainings.
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INTERACT
See What Others are Saying...
Tell us how you will use what you have learned:
- I love the idea of WIFM from learning opportunity number 4. What's In it For Me--such a great reminder to write and communicate directly to an audience in a way that grabs them.
- Communication is one of those skills, like cultural competency, that the more you learn, the more you realize how much more you can improve upon. Good selection of introductory and more advanced learning opportunities on this competency that we use all day long, every day -- but often forget how complex it is.
- Thanks for putting communication in a public health setting, which is really a specialized skill.
