Michigan Public Health Training Center offers continuing education classes in Flint FLINT — The Michigan Public Health Training Center is offering continuing education classes at the UM-Flint campus this fall for employees of state and local health departments, community-based organizations, health delivery systems and health plans and those studying public health.

Classes scheduled for this fall include:

· Conducting Useful Program Evaluations, taught by Thomas M. Reischl, evaluation director of the Prevention Research Center at the U-M School of Public Health. This class meets Sept. 20, Oct. 4 and Oct. 18.http://www.sph.umich.edu/mphtc/courses/f/3.shtml

· Tradition and Transition: Public Health at the Crossroads, presented by Matthew Boulton, chief epidemiologist and director of the Bureau of Epidemiology for the Michigan Department of Community Health and a clinical associate professor of epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health. Class sessions will be Oct. 11, Oct. 25 and Nov. 8.http://www.sph.umich.edu/mphtc/courses/f/4.shtml

· Making a Difference: Accessing, Interpreting and Using Health Data, led by Corinne Miller, director of the Epidemiology Services Division at the Michigan Department of Community Health. Class days are Nov. 1, Nov. 15 and Nov. 22.http://www.sph.umich.edu/mphtc/courses/f/5.shtml

All classes meet 8:30 a.m. to noon at the William S. White Building on the UM-Flint campus, and the fee is $115 per three-session course. A limited number of scholarships are available to employees of community-based organizations.

Visit the center’s web site at http://www.sph.umich.edu/mphtc for registration forms, or call (734) 669-8039. Deadline to register is Sept. 6 for the Reischl class, Sept. 13 for Boulton’s class and Oct. 7 for Miller’s course.

The Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has funded 14 training centers nationally, each an organized coalition of public health agencies, academic institutions, health care delivery facilities and community-based organizations that provide both basic and advanced public health education and training.

The Michigan Public Health Training Center received a five-year grant from HRSA to develop a statewide training center and the Michigan Department of Community Health provided additional funding. As with all the centers, the MPHTC strives to improve the competence of the current and future public health work force.