The Midwestern Public Health Training Center (MPHTC) at the University of Iowa College of Public Health has been selected as one of ten regional public health training centers to be re‑funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

MPHTC covers the four-state region of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The four-year grant continuation of over $3.1 million will allow MPHTC to continue to help improve public health by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competencies of the public health workforce.

“Our four states have a long history of collaborating on public health workforce development activities,” notes Tanya Uden-Holman, director of the MPHTC. “Supporting the public health workforce’s training needs is core to our collective work. We look forward to continuing the work with our academic and practice partners across the region to create a culture of training and education that ensures the public health workforce has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to meet the challenges of the 21st century.”

The University of Iowa College of Public Health Institute for Public Health Practice has housed a HRSA-funded public health training center since 2001.