EHS Publications by Topic

Built Environment

Dannenberg A, Ponder P. Role of environmental health professionals in improving the built environment. [PDF - 123 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2007; 71(1):22-3.

Heishman H, Dannenberg A. Influencing the built environment in your community. [PDF - 575 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2008; 71(4):66-7.

Prudent N, Houghton A, Stewart J, Petersen A, Thompson R, Byrne M, Luber G. Addressing climate change and local public health: the Austin Climate Protection Program and the CDC Working Group on Climate Change Collaboration. [PDF - 505 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2009; 71(8):18-9.

Community Environmental Health Assessment

Buchanan S, Meyer P, Sarisky J, Hubbard B, Noonan G, Tarrago O. Development of an integrated intervention plan to reduce exposure to lead and other contaminants in the mining center of La Oroya, Peru. [PDF - 282 KB] Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2005. Appendices A-F; H-l [PDF - 598 KB], Appendix G [PDF - 1.1 MB], Full report in Spanish [PDF - 287 KB], Executive summary in Spanish [PDF -77 KB]

Hubbard B. Working to build healthy communities: community environmental health assessments using PACE EH. [PDF - 145 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 69(3):32–3.

Hubbard B, Gelting R, Baffigo V, Sarisky J. Community environmental health assessment strengthens environmental public health services in the Peruvian Amazon. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2005; 208(1–2):101–7.

Orians C, Rose S, Hubbard B, Sarisky J, Reason L, Bernichon T, et al. Strengthening the capacity of local health agencies through community-based assessment and planning. [PDF - 232 KB] Publ Health Rep. 2009;124(6):875-82. [Buchanan S]

Drought

Kalis MA, Miller MD, Wilson RJ. Public Health and Drought. [PDF - 199 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2009; 72(1):10-1.

EHS-Net

Cates SC, Muth MK, Karns SA, Penne MA, Stone CN, Harrison JE. Certified kitchen managers: do they improve restaurant inspection outcomes? [PDF - 145 KB] J Food Prot. 2009; 72(2):384-91. [Radke VJ]

Green L, Selman C. Beliefs about sources of gastrointestinal illness: what factors are associated with people’s beliefs that a meal eaten outside of the home made them sick? [PDF - 553 KB] Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Food Protection, Phoenix, Arizona, August 8–11, 2004.

Green L, Selman C. Environmental health specialists' outbreak investigation practices: a qualitative study. [PDF - 424 KB] Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Environmental Health Association, Providence, Rhode Island, June 25–29, 2005.

Green L, Selman C. Environmental health specialists’ practices and beliefs concerning restaurant inspections. [PDF - 298 KB] Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Food Protection, Baltimore, Maryland, August 14, 2005.

Green L, Selman C. Factors impacting food workers’ and managers’ safe food preparation practices: A qualitative study. [PDF - 244 KB] Food Prot Trends 2005; 25:981–90.

Green L, Selman C, Banerjee A, Marcus R, Medus C, Angulo FJ, Radke V, Buchanan S, EHS-Net Working Group. Food service workers’ self-reported food preparation practices: an EHS-Net study. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2005; 208(1–2):27–35.

Green L, Selman C, Radke V. Food worker handwashing practices: an EHS-Net observation study. [PDF - 100 KB] Presented at the Biannual Meeting of the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, March 21, 2006.

Green LR, Radke V, Mason R, Bushnell L, Reimann DW, Mack J, Motsinger MD, Stigger T, Selman C. Factors related to food worker hand hygiene practices. [PDF - 75 KB] J Food Prot. 2007; 70(3):661-666.

Green LR, Selman C, Scallan E, Jones TF, Marcus R, EHS-Net Population Working Group. Beliefs about sources of gastrointestinal illness: what factors are associated with people’s beliefs that a meal eaten outside of the home made them sick? [PDF - 44 KB] J Food Prot. 2005; 68(10):2184–9.

Lee R, Beatty M, Bogard A, Esko M, Angulo F, Selman C, EHS-Net Working Group. Prevalence of high-risk egg-preparation practices in restaurants that prepare breakfast egg entrees: An EHS-Net study. J Food Prot 67:1444-1450.

Selman C. The Environmental Health Specialists Network—EHS Net. [PDF - 302 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 69(5):42–3.

Selman CA, Green LR. Environmental health specialists’ self-reported foodborne illness outbreak investigation practices. [PDF - 645 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2008; 70(6):16-21.

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EHS Delivery

Farrow Collier D. CDC grant program supports environmental health services delivery. [PDF - 305 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 69(4):43–5.

Farrow Collier D. Helping environmental health practitioners develop strategic partnerships and engage public health policy makers on the value and benefits of environmental health services. [PDF - 1.9 MB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 70(1):66–7.

EHS Revitalization

American Public Health Association. Partners advancing CDC strategy: revitalization of environmental public health services on agenda. [PDF - 400 KB] The Nation’s Health. 2004;8.

Blake R. Revitalization: are we there yet? [PDF - 142 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2007; 70(4):47-8.

Buchanan S. Revisiting revitalization. [PDF - 262 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 68(6):69–70.

Jukes G, Jackson RJ, Meehan P. Special Grand Rounds: Revitalizing the environmental health services system. 2002. [Web presentations]

National Center for Environmental Health. A strategy to revitalize health services in the United States. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2003.

National Conference of State Legislatures. Revitalizing environmental health services. [PDF - 240 KB] Environ Health Ser. 2003; 8:1–7 .

Emergency Preparedness and Response

Community preparedness and response: promoting preparedness to protect health. In: CDC health protection research guide, 2006–2015. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; in preparation 2006. [Mainzer HM, co-lead.]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public health emergency response guide for state, local, and tribal public health directors. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2005. [Kalis M., Rhyne, G.]

Gelting R, Miller MD. Linking public health and water utilities to improve emergency response. [PDF - 104 KB] J Contemp Water Res and Ed 2004; 129:22-26.

Kalis M. EMAC and environmental health in emergency response. [PDF - 1.5 MB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 69(10):61–62.

Kile JC, Skowronski S, Miller MD, Reissman SG, Balaban V, Klomp RW, Reissman DB, Mainzer HM, Dannenberg AL. Impact of 2003 power outages on public health and emergency response. Prehosp Disast Med. 2005; 20(2):93–97.

Miller MD. Emergency preparedness and response training for environmental health practitioners. [PDF - 177 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2008; 70(8):62-3.

Miller MD. The role of environmental health practitioners in a public health emergency. [PDF - 143 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 69(1):36–7.

US Public Health Service. Environmental health officer deployment resource guide CD. Version 1.0 [pilot]. Atlanta; US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006. Available from URL: http://ehopac.org/index.cfm?fa=emergency. [Miller MD]

Yee E, Palacio H, Atmer R, Shah U, Kilborn C, Faul M, Gavagan TE, Feigin RD, Versalovic J, Neill FH, Panillito AL, Miller MD, Spahr J, Glass RI. Widespread outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis among evacuees of Hurricane Katrina residing in a large “megashelter” in Houston, Texas: lessons learned for prevention. [PDF - 515 KB] Clin Infect Dis. 2007; 44:1032-9.

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Environmental Health

National Association of Local Boards of Health, National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The local board of health environmental health primer. Bowling Green, OH: National Association of Local Boards of Health; 2003.

Environmental Public Health Leadership

Hubbard B. Environmental public health leadership revisited. [PDF - 189 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2007; 70(2):51-2.

Sarisky J. Developing environmental public health leadership. [PDF - 111 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 68(7):46–7.

Essential Services

Osaki C. Essential services of environmental health. [PDF - 823 KB] [CD-ROM] Atlanta (GA): Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. 2004.

Food Safety

Gelting RJ. Irrigation water issues potentially related to 2006 E. coli O157:H7 in spinach outbreak. [PDF - 1.42 MB] In: Investigation of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with Dole pre-packaged spinach. [Attachment 11] Sacramento, CA: California Food Emergency Response Team; 2007.

Green L. Behavioral science and food safety. [PDF - 270 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2008; 71(2):47-9.

Hedberg CW, Palazzi-Churas KL, Radke VJ, Selman CA, Tauxe RV. The use of clinical profiles in the investigation of foodborne outbreaks in restaurants: United States, 1982-1997. Epidemiol Infect. 2008; 136(1):65-72. Epub 2007 Mar 5.

Higgins CL, Hartfield BS. A systems-based food safety evaluation: an experimental approach. [PDF - 530 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2004; 67(4):9–14. [Selman C, Sarisky J, Bohan P, Hollowell J]

Kirkland E, Green LR, Stone C, Reimann D, Nicholas D, Mason R, et al. Tomato handling practices in restaurants. [PDF - 177 KB] J Food Prot. 2009; 72(8):1692-8. [Radke V, Selman C]

Radke V. The need for partnerships for food safety. [PDF - 167 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 69(2):34–5.

Selman C. Improving environmental assessments during foodborne outbreaks. [PDF -240 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2009; 72(2):46-7.

General Resources

Preparing for the environmental public health challenges of the 21st century – Preparing the environmental public health workforce, promoting an all-hazards approach to preparedness and response to manmade and natural public health challenges and developing emerging environmental public health leaders are the themes of this CDC/ATSDR conference, December 3-5, 2003

Advancing environmental public health: science, practice, new frontiers – The December 4-6, 2006, CDC/ATSDR conference addressed the need to revitalize environmental public health and how to chart the nation's vision for the future. Six plenary sessions, 75 workshops, and 40 exhibits and poster displays addressed a range of topics from emerging threats to a myriad of everyday environmental public health issues.

Ten great public health achievements in the 20th century – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wigington P, Sims T. Web-based resources for environmental public health practitioners. [PDF - 117 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2008; 70(7):58-9.

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Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Gelting R. Water safety plans: CDC’s role. [PDF - 266 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2009; 72(4):44-5.

Institute of Medicine. Global environmental health: research gaps and barriers for providing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services: workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2009. [Gelting R]

Healthy Homes

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Healthy housing inspection manual. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2008. [Herring M, Shepherd C]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Healthy housing reference manual. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006. [Herring M, Shepherd C]

Shepherd C. CDC and HUD to release an updated housing inspection manual: the Healthy Housing Reference Manual. [PDF - 191 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 68(8):48–9.

Integrated Pest Management

Bonnefoy X, Kampen H, Sweeney K. Public health significance of urban pests. Copenhagen: World Health Organization; 2008. [Sarisky J]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Integrated pest management: conducting urban rodent surveys. [PDF - 626 KB] Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006 [Internet publication]. [Herring M, Shepherd C]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pictorial keys to arthropods, reptiles, birds, and mammals of public health significance. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006 [Internet republication].

Military Career Resource Guide

Uniformed Services Environmental Public Health Careers Work Group. Career resource guide for uniformed services environmental health practitioners. [PDF - 3 MB] Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2007. [CAPT Mike Herring, CAPT Charles S. Otto, III, CAPT Craig Shepherd, RS, MPH, Daneen Farrow-Collier, CAPT John Sarisky]

Norovirus

Neri AJ, Cramer EH, Vaughan GH, Vinjé J, Mainzer HM. Passenger behaviors during norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships. [PDF - 72 KB] J Travel Med. 2008; 15(3):172–6.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis at a swimming club --- Vermont, 2004. MMWR 2004; 53(34):793-795.

Performance Standards

Sarisky J. The Environmental Public Health Performance Standards: strengthening the nation’s environmental public health infrastructure and improving environmental health practice. [PDF - 251 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2009; 71(9):20-1.

Pesticides

Pesticides are poison. In: Community guide to environmental health. Berkeley, CA: Hesperian Foundation; 2005. [Mainzer HM]

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Recreational Water

Beach MJ. Recreational water illness prevention and swimming pool operation: moving beyond the basics. [PDF - 628 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2007; 69(9):82–3.

Bowen A, Kile J, Otto C, Kazerouni N, Austin C, Blount B, et al. Outbreaks of short-incubation ocular and respiratory illness following exposure to indoor swimming pools. Environ Health Perspect. 2007; 115(2): 267-71.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Respiratory and ocular symptoms among employees of a hotel indoor waterpark resort --- Ohio, 2007. MMWR 2009; 58(4):81-85. [Otto C]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surveillance for waterborne disease and outbreaks associated with recreational water --- United States, 2003 -- 2004. MMWR. 2006; 55(SS12):1–24. [Otto C]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis at a swimming club --- Vermont, 2004. MMWR 2004; 53(34):793-795.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surveillance data from public spa inspections --- United States, May—September. MMWR 2004; 53(25):553-555.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surveillance data from swimming pool inspections—selected states and counties, United States, May–September 2002. MMWR 2003; 52(22):513-6. [Otto C]

Cinpinski D, Bibler B, Kebabjian R, Georgesen R, Kishel P, Finkenbinder D, et al. Surveillance data from swimming pool inspections—selected states and counties, United States, May–September 2002. MMWR 2003; 52(22):513-6. [Otto C]

Dziuban EJ, Liang JL, Craun GF, Hill V, Yu PA, Painter J, et al. Surveillance for waterborne disease and outbreaks associated with recreational water --- United States, 2003 -- 2004. MMWR 2006; 55(SS12):1–24. [Otto C]

Kebabjian R, Bibler B, Georgesen R, Kishel P, Cinpinski D, Finkenbinder D, et al. Surveillance data from public spa inspections --- United States, May—September. MMWR 2004; 53(25):553-555.

Mathieu E, Levy DA, Veverka F, Parrish MK, Sarisky J, Shapiro N, Johnston S, Handzel T, Hightower A, Xiao L, Lee YM, York S, Arrowood M, Lee R, Jones JL. Epidemiologic and environmental investigation of a recreational water outbreak caused by two genotypes of cryptosporidium parvum in Ohio. Am J Trop Med and Hyg 2004; 71(5):582-9.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Health Hazard Evaluation Report: Investigation of Employee Symptoms at an Indoor Waterpark, Mason, OH. [PDF - 1.31 MB] Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2008. NIOSH HETA No. 2007-0163-3062. [Otto CS]

Otto C, Joe P. Recreational water illness prevention, 2008. [PDF - 171 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2008; 70(9):57-8.

Otto C. Recreational water-illness prevention = healthy swimming. [PDF - 180 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2006; 68(9):54–5.

Volusia County Health Department. Swimming pool inspector interactive training program. [CD-ROM]. Volusia County (FL): Volusia County Health Department. 2004.

Zanardi Blevins L, Itani D, Burns A, Lohff C, Schoenfeld S, Knight W, et al. An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis at a swimming club --- Vermont, 2004. MMWR 2004; 53(34):793-795.

Sewage

Smith JE, Millner PD, Jakubowski W, Goldstein N, Rynk R, et al., editors. Contemporary perspectives on infectious disease agents in sewage sludge and manure. Emmaus, PA: JG Press, Inc.; 2005. [Mainzer HM]

Surveillance

Robinson RA, Mainzer HM, Chomel B, Bender J. Surveillance methodologies for zoonotic disease at community levels. In: FAO Proceedings: Expert Consultation on Community Based Public Health Systems. Rome, Italy; 2004. p.38-48.

Vectors

Bonnefoy X, Kampen H, Sweeney K. Public health significance of urban pests. Copenhagen: World Health Organization; 2008. [Sarisky J]

National Center for Environmental Health. Stormwater management and vector breeding habitats. [PDF - 68 KB] Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services

Veterinarians

Mainzer H. Veterinarians and environmental health practitioners: partners in prevention. [PDF - 124 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2007; 69(8):60–1.

Riddle C, Mainzer H, Julian M. Training the veterinary public health workforce: a review of educational opportunities in United States veterinary schools. J Vet Med Ed. 2004; 31(2):161-167.

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Wastewater

Gelting RJ. A public health perspective on onsite wastewater systems. [PDF - 256 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2007; 69(7):62–3.

McKenzie C. CDC looks at links between wastewater and disease. [PDF - 595 KB] Small Flows Quart. 2005; 6(3):18–21. [Gelting R, Herring M.]

Zarate-Bermudez M. Enhancing the public health perspective on onsite wastewater systems. [PDF - 325 KB] [commentary] J Environ Health. 2009; 72(3):59-61.

Waterborne Disease Outbreaks

Anderson AD, Heryford AG, Sarisky JP, Higgins C, Monroe SS, Beard R, et al. A waterborne outbreak of Norwalk-like virus among snowmobilers - Wyoming, 2001. J Infect Dis. 2003; 187:303-6. [Mainzer HM]

Cashdollar JL, Fout GS, Dahling DR, Newport CM, Willian-True S, Parshionikar SU, Robbins DE, Anderson AD, Beard RS, Bresee JS, Glass RI, Monroe SS, Higgins C, Mainzer HM, Sarisky JP, Cassady JD, Harris R, Heryford AG, Musgrave KJ, Seys SA, Medus C, Vinje J. A collaborative effort to identify the causative agents of two waterborne outbreaks of gastroenteritis in Wyoming. In: Proceedings EPA Science Forum 2005: Collaborative Science for Environmental Solutions. Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency; 2005.

Cassady J; Higgins C, Mainzer H, Seys SA, Sarisky J, Callahan M. Beyond compliance: environmental health problem solving, interagency collaboration, and risk assessment to prevent waterborne disease outbreaks. J Epidemiol Commun Health. 2006; 60:672–4.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surveillance for waterborne disease and outbreaks associated with drinking water and water not intended for drinking --- United States, 2005 -- 2006. MMWR. 2008; 57(SS-9):39-69. [Radke V]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Brief report: gastroenteritis among attendees at a summer camp --- Wyoming, June--July 2006. MMWR. 2007; 56(15):368-70. [Mainzer H, Sarisky J]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surveillance for waterborne disease and outbreaks associated with drinking water and water not intended for drinking --- United States, 2003—2004. MMWR. 2006; 55(SS12):31–58. [Gelting RJ, Sarisky J]

Gelting R, Mason J, Sarisky J. Environmental health assessment trip report: Pennsylvania ski area outbreak. Atlanta (GA): US Department of Health and Human Services; December 2004.

Gelting R, Sarisky J, Selman C, Otto C, Higgins C, Bohan PO, Buchanan SB, Meehan PJ. Use of a systems-based approach to an environmental health assessment for a waterborne disease outbreak investigation at a snowmobile lodge in Wyoming. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2005; 208(1–2):67–73.

National Center for Environmental Health. Environmental Health Assessment for Epi-Aid 2004-076: Outbreak of gastroenteritis with multiple etiologies among resort island visitors and residents—Ohio, 2004. [PDF - 1.17 MB] Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2005.

O'Reilly CE, Bowen AB, Perez NE, Sarisky JP, Shepherd CA, Miller MD, et al. A waterborne outbreak of gastroenteritis with multiple etiologies among resort island visitors and residents: Ohio, 2004. [PDF - 453 KB] Clin Infect Dis. 2007; 44:506-12. [Hubbard BC, Herring M, Buchanan SD]