The Health Communication Training Series (HCTS) is a contemporary continuing education opportunity for current and aspiring healthcare and health communication professionals. The program consists of engaging, online, and self-paced courses on various topics in health communication. Courses are easy to navigate and include high-quality video lectures, interactive activities, and opportunities to connect with colleagues in the field.
Ready to learn with us? Check out carefully curated tracks for healthcare providers, public health professionals and students; or browse through our entire catalog.
Recently Added Courses
How to Think Like a Modeler
The first in a series of courses to help public health professionals better understand and use statistical and machine learning modeling data to make confident and informed decisions during an infectious disease outbreak.
Strategies to Support Team Well-Being
Enhance team well-being and performance with this free TEPHI course, offering tools and frameworks for debriefing stressful situations and applying well-being strategies in various scenarios. Gain hands-on experience with communication techniques and planning frameworks.
4,000+
course enrollments
15
available courses
64+
CE credits awarded
Healthcare providers | CE credits available
Patient-Provider Communication
Effective patient-provider communication can improve health outcomes and reduce provider burnout. This course explores communication strategies between patients and healthcare providers, evidence-based best practices for patient-centered communication, and the complexities that may arise in healthcare interactions.
Health Literacy and Clear Health Communication
Understanding, assessing, and accommodating levels of health literacy is crucial to improving patient communication, health outcomes, and self-efficacy. Learn best practicies for clear health communication that can help you effectively reach audiences of all levels of health literacy.
Pain, Opioids, and Hard Conversations
Navigate the complexities of discussing pain and opioids with confidence through this specialized course. Gain insights into effective communication strategies, adopt practical language examples, and understand the nuances of quick, yet compassionate, clinical conversations. Develop robust approaches to achieve pain management goals while maintaining strong patient-provider relationships.
Public health professionals | CE credits available
Audience-Centered Message Design
Unlock the power of audience-centere message design. Learn to craft compelling, evidence-based health messages that drive behavior change and discover tools for research and message development. Tranform your health messaging by putting the audience at the heart of your campaigns.
Visual Design in Health Communication
Enhance your health campaigns with our course on the power of visuals in communication. Learn to make impactful design choices, select the right visuals, and evaluate their effectiveness for optimum audience engagement. Apply these skills to your projects and see how the right visuals can drive behavior change and improve communication outcomes
Disparity, Health Equity and Health Communication
Explore how health communication can address health disparities and promote equity. Learn to design culturally sensitive health messages and improve patient-provider communication to enhance healthcare outcomes for communities of color. Ideal for public health professionals and healthcare providers, this course equips you with strategies to tackle health and racial disparities.
Students | CE credits available
Emotions in Health Communication
Discover how emotions influence health communication, learn key emotion frameworks, and explore research on how emotions affect health information processing. Gain practical insights for designing effective, emotion-based health messages.
Thinking Like a Health Communication Problem Solver
Develop your skills in tackling health communication challenges with this free course, led by CHC Director and Deputy Director. Learn to apply best practices and innovative strategies backed by research to solve real-world issues in health communication and enhance your ability to create effective solutions and improve health outcomes.
Mental Health Stigma and Communication
Better your understanding of mental health communication with our free course on Mental Health, Stigma, and Communication. Learn how language impacts stigma and patient-provider relationships and discover strategies to foster thoughtful and inclusive communication in healthcare settings.
Meet your instructors
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