New Podcast Interview Drop: Designing Effective Training For Public Health, With Instructional Designer Leah Roman, MPH, MCHES

What better way to celebrate the blog re-launch than with a brand new podcast interview. This week I sit down with Sujani at PH SPOT to discuss all things related to e-learning instructional design for public health trainings and courses. Check it out!

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How Health Education and Instructional Design Align: Reflections for National Health Education Week

In honor of National Health Education Week 2021, I thought it would be fun to visit selected responsibilities and competencies for health education specialists (2020) and make connections with instructional design. This is definitely not an exhaustive list of where they overlap, but these are some of my favorites!

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New Look, New Services for Roman Public Health Consulting

I’m excited to share with you what has been a long time coming. I have wanted to rebrand for quite a while, but with coming back from parental leave, navigating a pandemic, and unexpectedly homeschooling- it had to wait!

Today I’m sharing my new logo, the meaning behind it, and my updated list of services. Behind everything I do is a mission to help public health organizations design effective e-learning solutions.

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The Expecting Entrepreneur®: An Interview with Book Author Arianna Taboada, MSW, MSPH

Today I’m thrilled to welcome Arianna Taboada, MSW, MSPH to the blog. She is the founder of The Expecting Entrepreneur®, a consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs design parental leave plans that meet their business model and personal needs.

This fall, Arianna will be releasing a new book called The Expecting Entrepreneur®. The book translates the scientific evidence around parental leave and postpartum health into tangible best practices and processes that service-based business owners can use to design a parental leave plan that meets their needs.

I hope you enjoy our interview!

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Start With An E-Learning Needs Analysis By Asking These Four Questions

“If you don’t know why a performance issue exists, you run the risk of creating a training solution for a non-training problem.”—Tim Slade

E-learning and training cannot single handedly overcome challenges like under resourced projects, toxic work environments, poor leadership, and low morale.

Your needs analysis will help you figure out if a performance issue exists and why it exists.

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