ADA Title II Compliance: Take a Team Approach in Public Health, Healthcare, and Public Safety

This is the third post in a blog series about the updated Title II Rule in the Americans with Disabilities (ADA).

In the first post, we talked about what the Title II Rule change is, why it is important to our field, and we highlighted important compliance dates.

In the second post, we discussed how to get started. Specifically, we highlighted how to fight overwhelm and start by taking small action steps.

Today, we are talking about why it is important to take a team approach to Title II compliance and digital accessibility.

EducationalLeah RomanOctober 22, 2025Public health, Health education, NHEW, accessibilityComment

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!

RPH Presentation, RPH ServicesLeah RomanSeptember 9, 2025Public health, Health education, Training, accessibility, CHESComment

Accessibility Should Not Be an Afterthought: Designing Inclusive Learning Experiences

This week, SOPHE kicked off another National Health Education Week (NHEW). The theme is Advancing Health, Equity and Civil Rights. Over the past year, I have made learning about designing accessible e-learning a professional development priority. Since accessibility is a key component to developing equitable and inclusive learning experiences, it felt like a great fit to write about it during NHEW.

EducationalLeah RomanOctober 17, 2023e-Learning, Online learning, accessibility, Instructional Design, Health education, NHEWComment

How Health Education and Instructional Design Align: Reflections for National Health Education Week

In honor of National Health Education Week 2021, I thought it would be fun to visit selected responsibilities and competencies for health education specialists (2020) and make connections with instructional design. This is definitely not an exhaustive list of where they overlap, but these are some of my favorites!

EducationalLeah RomanOctober 18, 2021Instructional Design, e-Learning, Health education, Public healthComment

Monthly Public Health Consultant Spotlight: Robyn Correll Carlyle, MPH, CHWI

Each month, I will introduce you to a public health consultant or entrepreneur and they will share their path to self-employment and outline key pieces of advice for aspiring business owners.

Today we welcome Robyn Correll Carlyle from Houston, Texas (USA)!

Leah RomanApril 27, 2020Consulting Spotlight, consulting, Consultants, Community Health Workers, Health Writer, Health education, CHWComment

Register For My Free Webinar: Five Essential Skills for Aspiring Health Education Consultants

Ever wonder what it would be like to work for yourself?

If so, you’re not alone. So please join me on an upcoming webinar hosted by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE).

This FREE, live webinar “Five Essential Skills for Aspiring Health Education Consultants” will be held Thursday, July 18, 2019 from 2-3pm Eastern Time.

Leah RomanJuly 8, 2019New Consultants, Consultants, Consulting, CHES, MCHES, Webinar, Health educationComment