Program Management / Evaluation

10 Essential Services of Environmental Public Health – tool to strengthen local and state health agency capacity to identify and manage environmental problems

A Plan to Articulate and Market the Value of the Environmental Health Infrastructure and Environmental Health Service [DOC - 453 KB] – plan to improve the capacity of health programs to deliver environmental health services and reduce the incidence of environmentally based illness, injury, and death. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Building a Chemical Management System: A Schools Risk Reduction Project [DOC - 421 KB] – integrating the ten essential services into a new chemical management business model. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Building Environmental Health Capacity in New Health Departments [DOC - 192 KB] – development of Nebraska’s first State Public Health Improvement Plan. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

CDC Grant Program Supports Environmental Health Services Delivery [PDF - 305 KB] – discusses the importance of cooperative agreement programs in improving the delivery of basic environmental health services. This is one in a series of monthly Environmental Health Services Branch columns in the Journal of Environmental Health.

CDC Works With Partners to Build Environmental Health Capacity [PDF - 123 KB] – discusses partners' capacity-building projects in many areas of environmental health

Coordination of Environmental Public Health Services in Four Southeastern Oklahoma Counties [DOC - 901 KB] – project that demonstrates improvement in delivery of environmental health services to citizens by coordinating interagency responses. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Creating a Children's Environmental Health Program [DOC - 454 KB] – project to create a Children’s Environmental Health Program in King County, Washington, that focuses our collective thinking on life stages and disease causes rather than on environmental conditions or particular hazards. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Develop Long -Term Environmental Health Services For Three North East Counties in North Dakota [DOC - 387 KB] – project to teach and illustrate the value of environmental health services to three of the eleven North Dakota counties without environmental health services. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Developing a Respiratory Health and Indoor Environments Program for the City of Alexandria, Virginia [DOC - 665 KB] – Alexandria Community Environmental Health Assessment outlines environmental indicators that impact health in several broad categories, including respiratory health and infectious diseases. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Developing and Implementing a Coordinated Environmental Health Services Delivery System in New Hampshire [DOC - 512 KB] – using a systems thinking approach to develop an understanding of the underlying mental models that reinforce the current reality favoring disjointed, short-term solutions. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Development of a Comprehensive Educational Program to Increase Compliance Among Dry Cleaners [DOC - 442 KB] – project to go beyond the strict compliance/enforcement model to develop an educational program for the dry-cleaning industry and foster proactive compliance among operators. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Enhancing Community Capacity to Meet Environmental Health Needs in Rural Alaska [DOC - 364 KB] – developing a strategy to increase local capacity within rural Alaska Native communities for developing the community's ability to direct and fund their own environmental health programs. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Environmental Health Promotion Campaign in West Virginia [DOC - 969 KB] – project to expand understanding, increase awareness, and earn a greater appreciation of the crucial role played by environmental health professionals in protecting public health. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Environmental Health Promotion: Mercury in Fish Campaign [DOC - 320 KB] – project to bring together various interest groups to promote healthy fish consumption and decrease mercury-in-fish exposures in Rhode Island. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Essential Services of Environmental Health CD-ROM [PDF - 823 KB] – CD-ROM training program to help environmental health programs fully integrate the essential services concepts into their own operations through a flexible workshop format. Continuing education credits are available for program completion. This program was developed under an EHSB cooperative agreement.

Evaluating Quality: Demonstrating the Need for a Formal Quality Assurance Program in Environmental Health [DOC - 564 KB] – developing and implementing a formal quality assurance program that leads to increased staff morale, quality, and consistency of work. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Formation of an Illegal Dumping Prevention Program To Reduce Potential Impacts of E. Coli 0157:H7 in Agricultural Produce Grown in Monterey County [DOC - 578 KB] – report describes development of the Illegal Dumping Prevention Program, creation of the Illegal Dumping and Litter Abatement Task Force, and how systems thinking can be used to develop similar programs to address other potential causes of E. coli 0157:H7 contamination in produce grown in Monterey County. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Implementation of a Pilot Program to Address Reliability of Environmental Sanitation Inspections at Memphis and Shelby County Health Department [DOC - 500 KB] – creating a novel quality assurance pilot program to increase accurate and representative sanitation inspection surveys. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Implementing the Use of Recent Digital Pen & Paper Technology at the New Mexico Department of Health Scientific Laboratory Division [DOC - 437 KB] – implementing this technology to minimize data entry from handwritten paper forms, create a backup for hard-copy records, and use in the field for data entry. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Improving Performance Evaluation Process by Establishing Environmental Health Workforce Standards [DOC - 588 KB] – developing workforce standards by incorporating required competencies and performance expectations for environmental health professionals. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Integrating Environmental Health Indicators into the Austin Climate Protection Program [DOC - 2.25 MB] – proposing a more comprehensive approach to climate change mitigation at the local and regional level by incorporating a key set of environmental health indicators into the Austin Climate Protection Program’s surveillance activities. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

National Public Health Performance Standards Program – initiative to provide performance standards for state and local public health systems and encourage their use

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness for Local Utilities [DOC - 399 KB] – project to help local municipal water; wastewater, and electric utilities develop an emergency response plan that addresses pandemic influenza. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

Shifting Culture Without a Louisville Slugger; Building Trust, Pride, Honesty, and Integrity [DOC - 416 KB] – describes how focusing on staff behaviors and mental models as a first step can build a learning organization and outlines a method for assessing and measuring the Louisville Metro Health Department’s professional culture through systems thinking. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

State Environmental Health Directors Association [DOC - 1.3 MB] – creation of a formal association of state environmental health directors to build relationships and create a national identity for state-based environmental health. This is one in a series of reports prepared by a graduate of CDC’s Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute.

USNS Comfort [PDF - 259 KB] – describes the US Naval hospital ship's deployment in 2007 to 12 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; CDC staff on board included the Officer-in-Charge, CAPT Craig Shepherd from EHS.

Links to information from outside CDC

Ensuring Healthy Communities: Results of the 2006 State Environmental Health Directors Survey (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials) – information about typical state environmental health programs and baseline data to monitor program changes over time.

Logic Models and Outcome Measurement (Northwest Center for Public Health Practice) – online training module showing how to measure the performance of your local health jurisdiction using logic models and outcome measurement

Program Evaluation in Environmental Health (Northwest Center for Public Health Practice) – interactive module to teach participants about program evaluation

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