Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health Training Center

The Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health Training Center provides an essential service of public health by assuring a comprehensive and prepared public health workforce.

The Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health Training Center (POPHTC) is preparing public health professionals in a changing world. Many of today's practitioners were trained before extreme-[...] resistant tuberculosis, geographic information systems, an obesity epidemic, or even the Internet! POPHTC provides needed training and ongoing professional development for those workers dedicated to population health services. Based at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, POPHTC has a partner office at the The Ohio State University College of Public Health Office of Workforce Development.

POPHTC is one of 14 Public Health Training Centers1(PHTCs) with principal support provided through a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department Of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The PHTCs were launched to support the U.S. public health workforce in its efforts to protect Americans, and indeed, the world, from health threats.

Principal Investigator: Margaret A. Potter, JD

Ohio Co-director: Frank Holtzhauer, PhD

POPHTC… Preparing Public Health Professionals in a Changing World

• Then… schools of public health were criticized for being disconnected from the needs of public health workers

• Now… POPHTC (at the University of Pittsburgh and The Ohio State University) prepared more than 1,000 public health workers to face the threats of 2007-2008

• Imagine… [...]-edge professional development for every public health worker in the Pennsylvania and Ohio!