Public health training centers
Public Health Training Center Network https://phtcn.org This site links to 10 regional training centers, each of which offers free training on various topics. A few are listed below.
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice http://www.nwcphp.org/training See their search and listing page https://www.nwcphp.org/training/training-search
Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center https://r6scphtc.tulane.edu See their list here https://pace.tulane.edu/courses
Region 2 Public Health Training Center https://region2phtc.org/
Other sites dedicated to Public Health
The Global Health Learning Center http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/ from the Frank Foundation
NextGenU https://nextgenu.org free online classes about public health and other health related topics. Also from the Frank Foundation.
Public Health Foundations Certificate https://www.phtc-online.org/learning/cert-program/?certProgId=1&ref=hp-banner The Public Health Foundations Certificate is a free online program providing a foundation of core public health concepts and practices. The bottom of the page indicates this is from the University at Albany, Center for Public Health Continuing Education.
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has a Virtual Campus for Public Health https://campus.paho.org/en This page lists the self learning classes https://campus.paho.org/en/courses/self-learning
General sites that have some classes about public health
Khan academy https://www.khanacademy.org If you search their site, there are some classes sort of related to public health.
U Minnesota has online courses https://learning.umn.edu/ Doesn't say exactly whether these are free. I'll try to check these out.
MIT has open courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm some of which appear to be just class notes, sometimes videos. This search gives some classes related, more or less, to public health. https://ocw.mit.edu/search/?t=Public+Health but some of these classes may be old. The home page says "Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required."
Open University has free online classes http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue I found one class Introducing Public Health https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/public-health/introducing-public-health/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab There are others that are related to public health.
Sites that link to classes on other sites
TRAIN https://www.train.org/main/welcome A service of the Public Health Foundation. This site lists classes offered elsewhere. You can find classes on stats, epi, evaluation and related. I think these classes are free, but I'm not entirely sure. I'll check.
http://alison.com/ "ALISON enables anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves via interactive multimedia for FREE." Alison.com is the provider of classes. Trainers and organizations pay a small fee to provide classes for their people, but people can take classes for free.
Classes about research methods, statistics, data, epidemiology https://sites.google.com/site/gsocialchange/learning This is one of my pages. It's not specifically aimed at public health, but the same methods are used in public health resesarch.
Last checked and updated 10/16/2026