Summaries of grantee projects by funding period
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
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
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
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
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
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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