Karla Todd Barrett is the Senior Program Manager and Training Specialist at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). She manages overall operations and partnerships for HRSA-funded New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), including training development, data analysis, reporting and governance. Ms. Todd Barrett has co-authored or presented about NEPHTC training innovations for the public health workforce at NACCHO, APHA, NNPHI, SOPHE, ASPPH and NACCHO Emergency Preparedness. In the past year, NEPHTC reached over 60,000 participants, through 500+ trainings, in collaboration with health departments, associations, and other academic institutions, reaching a diverse public health professional workforce. NEPHTC is committed to supporting Community Health Worker organizations in New England. Ms. Todd Barrett is a co-author of the Public Health Learning Agenda for Systems Change Manuscript and Toolkit. Five of NEPHTC’s courses have been selected by the CDC Learning Connection for national promotion and 22 of NEPHTC’s self-paced courses have been awarded quality seals by the Public Health Learning Navigator.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility
Karla Todd Barrett is committed to the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and the implementation of those principles in a way that engages with the inequities and disparities in a particular community. NEPHTCs support DEIA principles in our work in multiple ways, including:
1. We increase the diversity of the future public health workforce by providing stipends for students considering a wide range of characteristics including project characteristics, agency characteristics, and student personal characteristics.
2. We collect multiple forms of diversity data: race and ethnicity, educational, economic and environmental disadvantage, SOGIM data, and lived experience through open ended questions, and by collecting data on project and agency populations-served. This allows various types of diversity data to be considered, which is appropriate to the differing types of disparities experienced in the specific geographies of New England, the region we serve.
3. We improve marketing to students through quality improvement initiatives, and gathering feedback from students and community representative groups increase direct outreach to diverse student groups across New England.
4. In addition to increasing placement opportunities for students who are unrepresented minorities or come from disadvantaged backgrounds, our program offers the opportunity, through placement in agencies, for all participants to increase their confidence and competencies to work with diverse communities.
5. We work with our partners to provide training on a variety of topics that help public health professionals learn how to implement an equity lens in their work.
6. We support the Community Health Worker Community through trainings and supporting community health worker organizations, and Karla Todd Barrett has co-authored a JPHMP paper on some of this work. CHWs often work with marginalized populations.
7. Karla Todd Barrett is a co-author, along with colleagues at four other schools of public health, of the Public Health Learning Agenda for Systems Change (LASC) manuscript, website, tools, pilot, conference presentations, and JPHMP publication. The LASC was designed to help the public health workforce, and workforce development professionals, to use learning to approach complex challenges that require systems change.
8. Karla Todd Barrett was a member of the Racial Justice Competency Model workgroup from 2020-2022.
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Kulik PKG, Alperin M, Todd Barrett KS, Bekemeier B, Documet PI, Francis KA, Gloria CT, Healy E, Hileman R, Kenefick HW, Lederer AM, Leider JP, McCormick LC, Prechter L, Reynolds KA, Rogers MH, Rose B, Scallan Walter EJ, Walkner LM, Zemmel DJ, Power LE. The Need for Responsive Workforce Development During the Pandemic and Beyond: A Case Study of the Regional Public Health Training Centers. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2024 Jan-Feb 01; 30(1):46-55. PMID: 37966951; DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001835;
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Welter C, Davis S, Elnicki J, Kulik PKG, Lloyd LM, Tenney M, Todd Barrett K, Rose B, Walter C. Public Health Learning Agenda for Systems Change Toolkit: National Pilot Evaluation Results. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023 Mar-Apr 01; 29(2):202-209. PMID: 36214660; DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001654;
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Lederer AM, Barrett KT, Shorter C, Kenefick HW, Kulik PKG, Morales M, Reinschmidt KM, Shrestha S. Public Health Training Centers' Support for Community Health Workers: Case Studies of Needs Assessment, Training, and Student Field Placement Initiatives. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2022 Sep-Oct 01; 28(5 Suppl 5):S212-S222. PMID: 35867491; DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001526;
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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. 2020. View Publication
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MacVarish K, Kenefick H, Fidler A, Cohen B, Orellana Y, Todd K. Building Professionalism Through Management Training: New England Public Health Training Center's Low-Cost, High-Impact Model. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2018 Sep/Oct; 24(5):479-486.View Related Profiles. PMID: 28991053; PMCID: PMC6078487; DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000693;
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| 2018 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 |
2024 Massachusetts Public Health Nurses Association:
Champion of Public Health Nurses
2021 Boston University School of Public Health:
"Think" Award
2021 Boston University:
Student Employee Supervisor of the Year Nominee
2018 National Environmental Health Organization:
National Certificate of Merit
2017 National Network of Public Health Institutes:
NEPHTC Team - Impact Award