Strategic Communications

Explore training focused on communicating effectively about data.


Topics include understanding and engaging an audience, persuasive communications, communications strategies, and more.

Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. All training listed below is free.

Region IV Public Health Training Center

An Overview of Public Health Reaching Across Sectors

This self-paced training provides tools for public health professionals to forge cross-sector partnerships and promote a better understanding of public health in other sectors.

Self-paced online course • 30 minutes • Beginner

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Region II Public Health Training Center

Building BRIDGES: Understanding Our Position in Multi-Sector Communication

This webinar describes the ways that our position informs our communication habits and provides opportunities for learners to reflect on their own communication choices.

Webinar • 1 hour • Beginner

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Region X Public Health Training Center

Building Inclusive Data Visualizations

This one-hour webinar reviews tips for developing more inclusive data visualization practices that better represent the people behind the numbers.

Webinar • 1 hour • Beginner

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Region I Public Health Training Center

Communicating to Different Personality Styles

This series of webinars covers the characteristics of different personality styles and how best to communicate with and support people of each style.

Webinar • 1 hour • Beginner

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Region V Public Health Training Center

Cooperative Communication

This self-paced training covers the importance of communication and guides learners to build a cooperative communication plan to apply in real situations.

Self-paced online course • 1 hour • Beginner

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Region X Public Health Training Center

Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume II: Communicating Effectively

This module is the second in a three-part series that is designed to help you use data to identify and address population health disparities. This module focuses on how to communicate data to audiences in your community.

Self-paced online course • 1.5 hours • Beginner

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Region X Public Health Training Center

Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume III: Visualizing Data Stories

This module is the third in a three-part series that is designed to help you use data to identify and address population health disparities. This module explains how data visualization techniques can help you communicate health information and tell a story to different audiences.

Self-paced online course • 1.5 hours • Beginner

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Washington State Department of Health

Storytelling with Data Webinar Series

Create compelling ways to communicate insights about public health data in the Storytelling with Data webinar series hosted by the Washington State Department of Health and IBM. The three one-hour sessions include lectures plus hands-on, practical activities.

Webinar • N/A • Beginner

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Washington State Department of Health

Expanded Color Palette for Data Visualizations

This webinar, hosted by the Washington State Department of Health, discusses how the agency developed a color palette used for all data visualizations and includes instructions for when and how to use each color scheme.

Webinar • 30 minutes • Intermediate

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Region IV Public Health Training Center

Using Message Framing Tools to Build and Sustain Cross-Sector Partnerships

This self-paced training covers several message framing tools that can be used to strengthen communication in partnerships across different sectors.

Self-paced online course • 30 minutes • Intermediate

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