February 18, 2025

Welcome from the MPHTC!

This bi-weekly newsletter will provide timely updates, information on upcoming trainings, events, resources, and more!

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MPHTC Portal


To register for upcoming trainings, please visit the MPHTC portal. We’re introducing features to help you easily access materials from our trainings, past attendance records and print certificates of completion. Instructions for how to get set up in the portal are available on our website.

Upcoming Trainings


Making Friends with Excel: Your Fast & Easy Guide to Navigating Spreadsheets


This 90-minute workshop is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to practice hands-on exercises to reinforce learning and demonstrate understanding of Excel features. This interactive workshop will cover key features designed to help organize your data, filter it to make it more useful, suppress data you don’t want to share, and protect cells on your worksheets from accidental changes. Participants who work in Excel should be able to put this learning to use immediately.


Presenter: Stacy Maloney, Founder and CEO of Elevate 11 Consulting

Date: February 21, 2025

Time: 9:00AM-10:30AM MT

Where: Zoom

Register: MPHTC Portal


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Public Health Data 2: Using Data as a Communication Tool


The workshop will equip participants with skills to effectively use public health data as a tool for communication. Participants will learn how to translate complex data into accessible formats for various platforms, including social media, and how to create impactful infographics. Participants will explore successful case studies, practice ethical considerations, and learn strategies for engaging stakeholders through data-driven public health messages.


Presenters: Kelley Milligan - MPH & Linda Donahue - BA in Mass Communication

Date: February 26, 2025

Time: 10:00AM-12:00PM MT

Where: Zoom

Register: MPHTC Portal


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Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Headache: What AI Means for Public Health


AI is revolutionizing our day-to-day lives, but is it a life-saving breakthrough or just another tech-induced migraine? In this engaging and entertaining webinar, we’ll explore how AI can improve many aspects of your daily lives. From data analysis to creating PowerPoints, AI can make your life easier. Whether you're an AI skeptic or an enthusiast, this session will help you separate the hype from the reality.


Presenter: Tim Wetherill, MD

Date: March 14, 2025

Time: 10:00AM-11:30AM MT

Where: Zoom

Register: MPHTC Portal


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Public Health Grant Writing 101: The nuts and bolts of getting organized, getting clarity, and getting funded


Does the thought of grant writing intimidate you? Or just make you want to run for the hills? In this workshop, veteran grant writer Katie Loveland will share tools to take the pain out of grant writing and equip you to develop compelling grant proposals to fund your public health program. Participants will learn how to identify funding opportunities, craft persuasive narratives, structure budgets, and align proposals with funder priorities.


Presenter: Katie Loveland, MPH, MSW

Date: May 28, 2025

Time: 9:00AM-10:30AM MT

Where: Zoom

Register: MPHTC Portal

Recordings of past trainings can be found on our website!

Wellness

Worksite Wellness Champions program

The MPHTC Wellness Program is launching a new worksite Wellness Champions program. For more information, please contact Wellness Director Lydia Czech at Lydia.Czech@mso.umt.edu

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Workforce Program

Workforce Program

The workforce program advises and assists Montana’s local and tribal health departments with recruiting and integrating staff for vacant and new positions.


Click on the button to the left to view an updated list of available positions. If you have jobs you would like us to post, please email Carolyn.Hester@mso.umt.edu or post directly to the job posting form.

Other Upcoming Events and Opportunities


Public Health in the Schools Initiative


The Public Health in the Schools initiative has developed curriculum modules to promote public health topics and careers in high schools across Montana, and we are very close to finalizing the modules. If you have connections with high schools in your community, please reach out to us!


We will offer: 5 curriculum modules on the core disciplines of public health, a lesson to leverage data from each school's PurpleAir monitor(s), a summer teacher workshop, and can we help organize classroom presentations with public health professionals.


Currently, the project is actively working to connect with health departments and recruiting schools to be part of this exciting initiative! Please email Kristen.Cram@mso.umt.edu for more information.

Notes from our Partners in Public Health

We welcome the opportunity to share announcements on behalf of your organization. Please email anna.kiley@mso.umt.edu if you have an announcement you would like us to include in future newsletters.