Building Capacity Grantee Projects by Keywords

Air Quality

Boston Public Health Commission’s Safe Auto Shops project to protect workers and the public from exposure to hazardous chemicals and air pollution in auto shops

Boston Public Health Commission’s Safe Nail Salons project to protect workers and the public from exposure to hazardous chemicals and air pollution in nail salons

Children's Environmental Health Network’s collaborative project to prevent and reduce adverse health effects from environmental health hazards in licensed day care centers in the District of Columbia

Kent County Health Department’s project to build a Kent County Children’s Environmental Health Collaborative that is focused, creative, and productive, thus eliminating the source of toxics with high relative risk to Kent County children

Asthma Education

Detroit’s Department of Health and Wellness Promotion-Center for Asthma Education, Management, and Policy project to offer asthma management education in the community and schools, with emphasis on identifying and avoiding or reducing exposures to environmental asthma triggers

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Community Environmental Health Assessment Implementation

Wampanoag Health Service’s project to implement priorities of its ongoing Protocol for Assessing Excellence in Community Environmental Health (PACE EH) project.

Island County Health Department’s project to develop a Protocol for Assessing Excellence in Community Environmental Health (PACE EH) toolkit

Foodborne Illness Prevention

Multnomah County Health Department’s project to determine whether the Oregon license fee structure should be based on menu complexity rather than on seating capacity as a better predictor of critical violations and foodborne illness

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General Environmental Health

Allegheny County Health Department’s project to to improve the delivery of environmental health services at the local level

The Great Lakes Center of Excellence in Environmental Health, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health project to build the capacity of environmental health programs in public health departments in the Midwest by providing training and technical assistance and creating academic-health department partnerships

Iowa Department of Public Health’s project to increase the capacity of local environmental health departments by responding to needs identified by the workforce

The Johns Hopkins Regional Academic Center’s project to strengthen the environmental public health (EPH) infrastructure in the Northeast region by assessing existing and emerging EPH needs at the state and local level

The Loma Linda University School of Public Health’s project to provide environmental health technical and administrative support to state, county, city, and tribal health agencies in an eight-state region in the western United States and Pacific Rim

The Northwest/Plains States Regional Academic Environmental Public Health Center, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, University of Washington project to assist local, state, and tribal environmental health units develop their capacity to provide effective, state-of-the art environmental public health programs

The Southeast Regional Academic Center for Environmental Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham project to strengthen the environmental public health (EPH) infrastructure in the region’s 10 states and two U.S. territories

Wampanoag Health Service’s project to implement priorities of its ongoing Protocol for Assessing Excellence in Community Environmental Health (PACE EH) project

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Healthy Homes

Iowa Department of Public Health’s project to develop a comprehensive Healthy Housing Initiative to addresses aspects of the environment as they affect housing

Multnomah County Health Department’s project to improve the housing service delivery system to reduce environmental health risk factors that contribute to disease and health disparities related to substandard low-income housing and the surrounding built environment

Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services’ project to decrease risk factors in the home that lead to injury, illness, and death in underserved populations

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Vector Control

Jefferson County Department of Health’s project to build and enhance effective partnerships to improve environmental health capacity for designing and delivering interventions for mosquito control and air quality improvement.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s project to establish the New York City Rodent Control Academy

Republic of Palau Ministry of Health’s project, the Palau Healthy Community Initiative, to educate the community on vectorborne diseases and waste management

Republic of Palau Ministry of Health’s project to implement vector control and prevention activities that will focus on the reduction of vectorborne diseases

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Water Quality

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s water-quality project to enhance awareness and professional competency and develop needed resources as a means of reducing occurrence of sanitation-related waterborne diseases among Alaska Natives in the Yukon-Kuskokwin Delta region
 
Bucks County Health Department’s project to establish a private well construction inspection and certification program, monitor streams and groundwater, and take an inventory of abandoned landfills

Muncie Bureau of Water Quality’s project to investigate the effectiveness of rain gardens in reducing environmental health risks in Muncie

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