Product Catalog

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.

Allegheny County Health Department

Toolkit for developing environmental health indicators [PDF - 95 KB] 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

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

Best Practice: Well Water Regulations for the County of Bucks, PA [DOC - 132 KB]
Training module: Educating High School Health and Athletic Directors to Prevent Environmentally Acquired Staphylococcus Infections caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA).

Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion

Toolkit [DOC -266 KB] 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)
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

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

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

Southeastern regional environmental health profile [PDF - 768 KB]
Individual environmental health information on each state in the region
Best practices for conducting community based environmental health assessments using PACE EH

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