Time Commitment: 6 hours over 3 days virtually or one day meeting in-person The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors’ Thought Leader Round Table model is designed to facilitate discussion between Chronic Disease Directors and national partners on emerging public health issues and create opportunities to develop actionable steps to further progress in those areas. Participation is by invitation. Thought Leader Round Tables may happen virtually or in-person.

This course curriculum is intended to help public health departments and other users of clinical data identify the fundamentals of clinical data capture and electronic health record (EHR) systems. This course contains 4 modules (Module 1: Origins and Nature of Clinical Data; Module 2: Management of Clinical Data by Healthcare Organizations; Module 3: Clinical Data Aggregation: Bringing Data Together to Advance Health; and Module 4: Governance: Building and Sustaining Trust in an Information Partnership) and is expected to take approximately 60 minutes to complete. Each module contains videos, knowledge check questions, links to resources, and an evaluation. This is a…

This course curriculum is intended to health public health departments and other users of clinical data identify how clinical data can complement traditional surveillance data sources and identify strengths and limitations of clinical data for public health surveillance purposes.This course contains 2 modules (Module 1: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Clinical Data for Surveillance and Other Population Health Purposes and Module 2: Getting Beyond the Limitations: Optimizing Clinical Data for Chronic Disease Surveillance) and is expected to take approximately 40 minutes to complete. Each module contains a video, knowledge check questions, links to resources, and an evaluation. This is…

Using the Chronic Disease Competencies to Build and Sustain a Skilled Team is a three-module course. Modules 1 and 2 are for anyone working in chronic disease prevention and management with an interest in using a competency-based approach to professional development. The third module is designed to help managers utilize a competency-based approach to support a team.

In this course, you’ll learn how to use the NACDD Legislative Tracker to quickly see the wording and status of legislation in specific policy areas in your state and other states who are working on the same issues.

Time Commitment: 75-minute bi-monthly meetings, third Tuesday of the month The Walkability Action Institute (WAI) Alumni Community of Practice (CoP) group is a peer group for any local-, regional-, or state-level alumni participant of NACDD’s WAI or Walkability Virtual Academy (WVA). Over the last nine years, a total of 82 local, regional, or state interdisciplinary teams from 33 total states have successfully participated in the WAI/WVA. This CoP serves as a space for alumni participants to learn, share, mentor, and network with one another for peer-to-peer technical assistance on macro policy, systems, and environmental change strategies tied to walkability- and…

The Walkability Action Institute (WAI)/Walkability Virtual Academy (WVA) is a multi-day experiential learning course targeted to representatives from public health, planning, transportation, elected officials, and other disciplines to receive training, learn from some of the nation’s best experts in each of these disciplines, and develop team action plans of policy, system, and environmental approaches to improve walkability, movability, and community and transportation design.

In this course, you’ll learn why it’s important to engage with elected officials to achieve your public health goals, who to engage with and effective techniques for engaging with them.

This course provides specific guidance on best practices for writing more effective email messages to improve your public health practice.