Building Environmental Health Capacity

In 2001, CDC began funding cooperative agreements to help state and local health departments develop effective state-of-the-art environmental public health programs. Environmental health programs and academic institutions are eligible for funding.

Grantees develop products and processes that other environmental health programs can use as models and/or toolkits for

• delivering environmental health services,
• improving environmental health capacity to respond to current and emerging health threats, and
• expanding the science-base in environmental public health to improve public health practice.

Capacity Building Project Summaries

CDC Works With Partners to Build Environmental Health Capacity [PDF - 123 KB] – fact sheet discusses partners' capacity-building projects in many areas of environmental health

In 2007, 11 state and local environmental health projects were awarded funds under the round III cooperative agreement titled Healthy People and Healthy Communities Through Improved Environmental Health Services Delivery.

Round III grantees are supporting community efforts to improve the health and built environment of underserved populations by building effective environmental health programs. Grantees will be implementing interventions to address issues related to inadequate environmental health services (i.e., services involving water quality, air quality, waste management, or vector control) that can potentially contribute to health disparities in the communities they serve.

The Journal of Environmental Health has dedicated its July-August 2007 issue [PDF - 557 KB] to Building Capacity in Environmental Health Services. This issue's articles feature accomplishments in capacity building for environmental public health developed by CDC’s capacity-building grantees.

Value and Benefits of Environmental Health Services [DOC- 77 KB]
Representatives from the NCEH capacity-building grantee projects collaborated to produce a set of talking points to facilitate development of strategic partnerships that recognize the critical role public policymakers in supporting the delivery of environmental health services. The talking points are offered to help state and local environmental health practitioners develop information and education strategies for public policymakers. Please send your comments to: ehsb@cdc.gov.

Recent Presentations to Environmental Health Tracking Grantees
Johns Hopkins University
University of Alabama, Birmingham
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Washington
Loma Linda University

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