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Creating a Learning Agenda for Systems Change
Watch this short video to learn how the Public Health Learning Agenda for Systems Change harnesses the power of learning to address persistent challenges that impact health in our communities.
The Public Health
Learning Agenda
Facilitate deeper, more robust stages of learning that can increasingly impact systems change
Creating a Learning Agenda for Systems Change: A Toolkit for Building an Adaptive Public Health Workforce
Welter C, Barrett KT, Davis S, Lloyd L, Rose B. Creating a Learning Agenda for Systems Change: A Toolkit for Building an Adaptive Public Health Workforce. Published online 2020. https://publichealthlearningagenda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Learning-Agenda-192 Toolkit-Report-Final-120920.pdf
What's Inside the Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit?
Conceptual Learning Framework
Illustrates the concepts behind the Learning Agenda
Rapid Self-Assessment Tool
Assesses an organization’s current learning state
Discussion
Guide
Helps to guide deep discussions about each step of the Learning Framework
Learning Approach Planning Tool
Assists in designing the learning opportunities that will best fit the challenge type and desired level of impact
Why the Public Health Learning Agenda? Why now?
The public health workforce is currently facing many complex challenges that stand at the root of community health issues.
Existing public health workforce development models focus largely on improving individual competency. Individual competency alone, however, is no longer sufficient to create a workforce equipped to address the current complex challenges occurring at the individual, organizational, community, and systems levels.
The principles behind the Learning Agenda Toolkit are:
- Learning must be responsive to community and systems challenges, not just individual roles/competencies.
- Different challenges need different learning approaches; the most complex challenges require systems changes.
- Greater systems change can be affected by developing a Learning Agenda that offers increasingly more impactful training that focuses on root causes of health and addresses organizational and community competencies.
The goal of the Learning Agenda is to facilitate deeper, more robust stages of learning that can increasingly impact systems change.
The Learning Agenda was developed by the Public Health Learning Network, a national consortium of ten Regional Public Health Training Centers (PHTCs), and their partners, that provide high-quality, relevant training to address the learning needs of the public health workforce
Download the Public Health Learning Agenda Toolkit
The tools in this Toolkit can help organizations and communities be more intentional with their learning to get to the change they envision.
We hope this Learning Agenda Toolkit will be used by practice partners, including public health departments, organizations, workforce development specialists, and associations that champion national workforce strategies, to achieve their goals.
