Transferable products on this page were developed by grantees
for the Environmental Health Capacity-Building Program.
These products can be used by other environmental health
programs to:
- deliver environmental health services
- improve environmental health capacity to respond to current and emerging health threats
- expand the science-base in environmental public health to improve public health practice.
Environmental Public Health Projects
Allegheny County Health Department
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Toolkit for developing environmental health indicators including
methodology, primer for indicator development
- Toolkit for developing a standard operating protocol for a health hazard event, including flowcharts, policy and procedures,
and standard data collection forms
- Prototype for an environmental complaints database
- Template for environmental health evaluating the capacity to carry out the ten essential services using the National Public Health Performance
Standards
Boston Public Health Commission
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Toolkit for developing an environmental health educational program that targets businesses that produce environmental pollutants (based on their safe auto shop model)
Bucks County Bureau of Environmental Health
Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion
- Toolkit showing how to develop and implement an integrated
approach to addressing asthma in schools, with emphasis on environmental triggers
Iowa Department of Public Health
- Toolkit for practitioners to learn more about the application of the core functions, essential services, and core competencies
to practice environmental health. The toolkit will include educational materials; real world application by model programs
detailing practice in onsite waste water, food, nuisance, water quality, swimming pools, etc.; self-assessment tool; and case studies based on the Iowa Department of Public Health’s minigrant
program to gauge potential environmental health applicant skills in the
areas of the core competencies.
- Template for writing policies and procedures for environmental health
services. The document also provides examples of policies and procedures
from local environmental health departments across Iowa.
Island County Health Department
Multnomah County Health Department
New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Curriculum for a rodent management training program based on integrated
pest management (IPM)
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NYC
Rodent Control Academy
- CD of agency-specific IPM practices
Republic of Palau
- Toolkit for vector-control program in a rural community including public educational material
Regional Academic Environmental Public Health Centers
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Maryland
environmental health profile
- Northeastern regional environmental health profile, including 3-4 page
environmental health information on each state in the region
- Best practices in conducting environmental health assessments
Loma Linda University School of Public Health
- Profile of environmental health delivery in the states of California and New Mexico
- Multilanguage retail food worker training DVD
- Retail food code training materials
- Environmental asthma trigger training module
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
- An electronic database of environmental health training and practice materials (Geolibrary.org)
- Best practices in conducting health hazard evaluations
- environmental health training modules
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
- Ten essential services training modules CD
- Environmental health program evaluation online module
- Communication online module based on the ten essential services and core competencies