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Strengthening Local Public Health Through Training & Education

The mission of the Local Public Health Institute (Institute) is to provide and ensure a competent workforce by strengthening and sustaining the capacity of local boards of health to prepare for and respond to public health issues and emergencies and to promote the health of residents of the Commonwealth.

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Fellows Induction Ceremony: Recognizing Public Health Heroes

Six local public health officials from across the Commonwealth were honored on March 26th during the first ever Fellows Induction Ceremony of the Local Public Health Institute of Massachusetts (LPHI).

The new Fellows are Philip Leger, RS, Templeton’s Health Director; Kitty Mahoney, RN, BSN , MS , Framingham ’s Chief Public Health Nurse; Patrick Maloney, MPAH, RS, CHO, Brookline ’s Assistant Director of Public Health and Chief of Environmental Health; Sandra B. Martin, Egremont’s Health Agent; J. David Naparstek, ScM, RS, CHO, Merrimack Valley Health District’s Public Health Consultant; and Kevin Sweet, MS, RS, CHO, Maynard’s Public Health Director and Emergency Management Director. Read more…

Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER) 2012

The Local Public Health Institute of MA and the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development recently delivered the EHTER course with a team of CDC and Massachusetts Instructors in Norwood, MA. The next offering is tentatively scheduled for 2013. Course materials from Spring 2012 are available here.

Local Public Health Summer Internship (LPHSI) Program

The LPHSI program allows students currently pursuing degrees in public or environmental health to integrate and apply classroom learning in a local public health agency. Student interns can contribute to the work of local public health agencies while developing practical skills and gain real-world experience in local public health.

Please note: The LPHSI Program supports the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Local Board of Health Summer Internship Program, which is for graduate students only.

Are you a local health department looking for an intern?

Please complete a Supervisor Application, and email it to Laura Rabin (lrrabin@bu.edu), Practicum Manager at the Boston University School of Public Health. Laura will be the point person for assigning a LPHSI intern to your organization.

NEW Online Trainings! Click on each to find out more:

Improving Local Public Health Institute Trainings

Orienting New Practitioners: Trainings for Local Public Health

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