Public Health
Since 2002, PDP has worked collaboratively with the Center for Public Health Continuing Education at the University at Albany School of Public Health to create online courses for the public health and health care workforce. This partnership, as part of multiple Health Resources and Services Administration-funded initiatives, including the New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center and the Empire State Public Health Training Center, has resulted in the design, development, and implementation of the PHTC-Online learning management system and over 20 online course modules that have trained tens of thousands of learners from New York State and around the world, improving the quality of public health services in our society.
Public health courses have been developed on a wide variety of public health topics such as fundamentals of public health, field epidemiology, cultural awareness, health equity, case management, health literacy, program evaluation, supervision skills, and many topics related to public health preparedness. Many of the PHTC-Online trainings offer Continuing Education Credits, both free and fee-based, and PDP has designed and developed a custom administrative system to track and report user registrations, completions, evaluations, and credit requests. PDP has also developed a sub-system within the LMS for administrators to display detail about each transaction, manage payments for credits, and update cost per credit.
Public Health Training Courses Online, the customized learning management system built by PDP for the University at Albany’s Center for Public Health Continuing Education, now hosts over 50 web-based modules with over 350,000 course completions and over 125,000 requests for continuing education credits since 2010.