Policies

Breast Cancer Policies: A Systems Approach [DOC - 351 KB] – applied systems thinking to existing research funding policies for breast cancer to determine how and why theses policies exclude significant funding for research into role of environmental carcinogens on breast cancer incidence. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Defining Policies and Legislation on Environmental Public Health for State Legislatures [DOC - 194 KB] – seeks to identify the factors of the disjoint and the potential for miscommunication between the state agencies responsible for operating environmental public health programs and the policy makers elected to authorize and fund such programs. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.