Building Capacity - Special JEH Edition

The July-August 2007 issue [PDF - 557 KB] of the Journal of Environmental Health featured grantees' articles detailing their accomplishments in capacity building for environmental public health. In his Introduction [PDF - 1.67 MB], JEH Managing Editor Nelson Fabian says of the CDC capacity-building cooperative agreement program, "We can think of no other initiative that holds such promise for our work as this one does.

Also in this issue, Daneen Farrow Collier discusses how CDC and its capacity-building grantees are 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].

Grantee Articles

Using 10-Essential-Services Training to Revive, Refocus, and Strengthen Your Environmental Health Programs [PDF - 468 KB], Carl S. Osaki, RS, MSPH, Deborah Hinchey, MPH, and Joy Harris, MPH

Building Capacity of Environmental Health Services at the Local and National Levels with the 10-Essential-Services Framework [PDF - 1.27 MB KB] Lynn Schulman George, Mark Fulop, MA, MPH, and Lila Wickham, RN, MS

The Boston Safe Shops Project—Preliminary Findings of a Case Study in Applying the 10 Essential Services of Public Health to Building Environmental Health Capacity [PDF - 639 KB] Paul A. Shoemaker, MPH, Tiffany Skogstrom, John Shea, MS, and Leon Bethune, MPH

The Use of the National Public Health Performance Standards to Evaluate Change in Capacity to Carry Out the 10 Essential Services [PDF - 535 KB] G. Barron, MPH, J. Glad, MPH, and C. Vukotich, MS

Enhancing the Maryland Environmental Public Health Workforce: A Collaborative Approach [PDF - 565 KB] Beth Resnick, MPH, Joanna Zablotsky, MPH, Olivia Farrow, RS, JD, Rodney Glotfelty, RS, MPH, Philip Heard, MD, MPH, Susan Kelly, RS, Clifford Mitchell, MD, MPH, Frances Phillips, RN, MHA, and Thomas Burke, MPH, PhD

Using the PACE EH Model to Mobilize Communities to Address Local Environmental Health Issues—A Case Study in Island County, Washington [PDF - 550 KB] Keith Higman, Celine Servatius, REHS, Whitney L. Webber, MS, and Tim McDonald, RS, MPH

The Great Lakes Center’s Health Hazard Evaluation Program: Promoting Community Environmental Health Through Partnerships Between Academic and Public Health Departments [PDF - 1.03 MB] Salvatore Cali, MPH, CIH, Peter Scheff, PhD, CIH, Amy Mucha, PhD, Leslie Nickels, M.Ed, Irene Oliynyk, MPH, and Daniel Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH

Guest Commentaries

It Takes More Than Science [PDF - 468 KB] Ken Sharp, REHS, and Joy Harris, MPH

Optimizing Environmental Health Training Outcomes: A Case Study of Tribal and Nontribal Trainees [PDF - 487 KB] Sarah Hess, MPH(C), David T. Dyjack, Dr.PH, CIH, and Jesse Bliss, MPH

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