September 2025 Webinar: How to Build Accessibility Planning into Your Health Education Training Workflow

RPH Consulting has a webinar collaboration with SOPHE on September 17, 2025.

Designing accessible health education training content has wide-ranging individual and organizational-level benefits. These include compliance with funder and legal requirements, reaching a broader learning audience, creating a better user experience, and shifting from an individual accommodation-based framework to designing for all learners. Unfortunately, accessibility planning is often an afterthought in our workforce development efforts. It is a quick final review to confirm we have video captions or transcripts. It is an item to be checked off before our training or course launches.

Join the webinar and let’s learn together how to change that!

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RPH Presentation, RPH ServicesLeah RomanPublic health, Health education, Training, accessibility, CHESComment
Disability Inclusion in Public Health: How We Can Strengthen Workforce Capacity

I had the pleasure of watching the recent NACCHO webinar “Embedding Disability Inclusion in Public Health: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and Workforce Capacity.”

Their Health and Disability team conducted a landscape analysis to identify systems-level strategies that help local health departments (LHDs) build workforce capacity and embed disability expertise into core public health practices.

Today, I’m sharing key takeaways and resources from the webinar, along with their applications to my work in public health instructional design, with a special interest in accessibility.

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Professional Development, AdvocacyLeah Romanaccessibility, disability, Public health, webinar, Professional DevelopmentComment
Hot Off The Press: Emerging Priorities in Public Health Education and Training 2025

I’m happy to share my next installment of “Hot Off The Press”, a blog feature where I share emerging research, publications, and standards that are relevant to making effective and accessible public health courses.

This month, I am highlighting a new article from the journal Pedagogy in Health Promotion called “Is Public Health Education and Training Adequately Responding (or Not) to Emerging Priorities?” (Kemper Seeley, Robinson, Severinsen, and Coombe, 2024).

I discuss the highlights and my key takeaways.

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Know Better, Do Better. How I Audit My Own E-learning Materials.

It can be overwhelming to go back and review your own webpages, online courses, toolkits, and handouts. The more we learn and get better, the more we realize our mistakes in previous learning products.

But it’s important to model, “Know Better, Do Better.”

I want that for myself and I want that for my clients. No judgement. Just improvement.

Today, I’m sharing the process I used to audit and improve a graphic on my website that compares the roles and responsibilities of e-learning instructional designers and developers.

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Educational, RPH ServicesLeah Romane-Learning, Instructional Design, AuditComment
Why I Removed GIFs From My E-Learning Instructional Design Portfolio

Earlier this year, I conducted an accessibility audit on my own instructional design portfolio. I initially created the online content a few years ago, and like many people, I thought the inclusion of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)s would be fun and engaging for visitors.

However, when I revisited the portfolio with an accessibility lens, I had multiple concerns about the GIFs and removed them. Visit today’s post to learn why!

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RPH Services, EducationalLeah RomanPublic health, e-Learning, Instructional Design, Portfolio, accessibilityComment