This page lists final projects created by the EPHLI fellows. These documents have not been revised or edited to conform to agency standards. The findings and conclusions in these reports are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Healthy People in Healthy Places
Healthy Communities
Air Quality
Arsenic
Breast Cancer
Built Environment
Children’s Environmental
Health
Climate Change
Credentialing
Cultural Competency
Environmental Education
Environmental Health Indicators
Environmental Health Investigation
Environmental Health Services Promotion
Environmental Health Surveillance
Environmental
Health Workforce Development
Environmental
Public Health Performance Standards
Environmental Public
Health Practice
Environmental
Public Health Service Programs
Evaluation
Food Safety
Greenwaste
Groundwater
Health Impact Assessment
Health Risk Communication
Individual/Private Wells
Infant Mortality
Injury Prevention
Interagency Coordination
Marketing Environmental
Health Services
Onsite Sewage Disposal
Policy and Legislation
Private Unregulated
Water Systems
Program Management
Recycling
Retention
Risk Factors
Safe Drinking Water
Solid Waste
State Environmental
Health Directors
Toxic Exposures
Training Program
University Curricula
Vector Control
Wastewater
Healthy People in Healthy Places
Healthy Homes
Indoor Air Quality
Lead
Mercury
Methamphetamine Lab Cleanup
Mold
RadonHealthy People in Healthy
Places
Healthy Schools
Chemical Hazards
Emergency Management Planning
Groundwater
Multihazards
Obesity
Public Schools
School Indoor Air Quality
Septic Systems
Sewage DisposalHealthy
People in Healthy Places
Healthy Travel and Recreation
Monitoring and Warning
Systems
Recreational Water
Swimming Pools
Water Attractions
People
Prepared for Emerging Health Threats
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Interagency Coordination
Mutual Aid Agreements
Pandemic Influenza
Public Utilities
Safe Drinking Water
Sewage
Sewer Utilities
Air Quality
Arsenic
Breast Cancer
Built Environment
Chemical Hazards
Children’s
Environmental Health
Climate Change
Credentialing
Cultural Competency
Emergency Management
Planning
Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Assessing and Promoting Environmental Health Emergency Preparedness in Minnesota—Brian Golob, MS, CHMM, REHS
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Defining the Emergency Response Roles of Environmental Health Specialists in Northwest Ohio—Aaron Otis, MPH, RS and Niki Lemin, MS, RS
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Developing Enhanced Communication Between Public Health and Emergency Response During Environmental Health Emergencies—Calondra Tibbs, MPH
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Environmental Public Health
and Emergency Preparedness—Bryant Wilke, RS
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Improving Emergency Preparedness
– Developing an Environmental Emergency Response Plan—Michelle
Clausen Rosendahl, MPH, REHS
- Increasing Citizen Emergency Preparedness: A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Jurisdictional Approach—Ami McLandsborough, BS, CSP and John Dunham, MS, RS
- Mutual Aid Agreement for Water
and Sewer Utilities—Doug Sims, BS, MPA
- Operation PPE: Developing a Safety First Culture for Iowa Environmental Public Health—Cory Frank, BA
- Using Environmental Health Professionals (EHPs) in Community and Emergency Response Planning—Ed Kalas, REHS, MPH; Judy M. Willingham, RS, MS
Environmental Education
- Collaboration With Other Agencies to Produce Exciting Environmental Health Programs for
Children—John Zentgraf, BS, MST
- Developing a Health Education Program to Address Liver Cancer in a Community Impacted by Environmental Contamination—Melanie Rodriguez, MPH
- Enhancing Public Support of a Regional Source Water Monitoring Governance Structure in the Lake Huron to Lake Erie Corridor—Gary White, MS, RS
- Implementing Environmental Health Lesson Plans in Idaho Schools—Kara Stevens, BBA
- Increasing Citizen Emergency Preparedness: A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Jurisdictional Approach—Ami McLandsborough, BS, CSP and John Dunham, MS, RS
- Public Drinking Water: Building Consumer Confidence through Education—Edwin Sims, PE
- The Last Illegal Supper: Reducing the Number of Illegal Mobile Food Vendors?—Diana Wilson, REHS
Environmental Health Indicators
Environmental
Health Investigation
Environmental
Health Services Promotion
Environmental Health Surveillance
Environmental Health Workforce Development
- A Case Study: The Downgrading of the Environmental Health Workforce in El Paso, Texas—William Wolff, MPH, MPA
- A Crisis for Leaders: Improving Retention and Recruitment at the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation—Lorinda Lhotka, BA
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Assuring Food Safety and a Qualified Workforce in Suburban Cook County—LaTrice Porter-Thomas, MPH, LEHP
- Ensuring a Competent Workforce and Sustaining Program Improvements in Environmental Health—Jennifer
Pinnow, REHS/RS
- Improving Performance Evaluation Process by Establishing Environmental Health Workforce Standards—Melody Bowyer, MBA, REHS
- Improving Public Health
Services and Saving Resources: Hiring Graduates from Accredited
Environmental Health Programs—Timothy Murphy, PhD, REHS,
CHMM, CET and Jeffrey S. Neistadt, MS, RS
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Increasing Environmental Public Health Knowledge at Local Public Health Agencies—Kristi Campbell, BS
- Increasing Retention of Environmental
Health Specialists in Los Angeles County—Thomas West, REHS
- Integration of a Pilot Program to Increase Environmental Sanitation Inspection Reliability And Efficacy—Tyler Zerwekh, DrPH
- Professional vs. Technician: Credentialing Requirements for Environmental Public Health Staff in Alabama—Timothy Hatch, MPA, REHS
- Making the Connections Outside the Clinic: Adding Public Health and Environmental
Public Health Education to Medical School Curriculum—Roger Perales, MPH, RS
- Meeting the Environmental
Challenges of the Future by Redesigning the Workforce of Today—Janet
Williams, BS
- Responding to Shifting Patterns of Foodborne Illness: A Strategy to Ensure a
Competent Workforce—Christopher Gordon, MA, REHS, CFSP
- Retention of Navy Environmental
Health Officers (EHOs) in the U.S. Navy—Rohini Suraj, REHS/RS,
MSEH
- Saving University Environmental
Health Programs—Alice L. Anderson, MS, PhD
- Training for Local Public Health Agency Environmental Staff in Missouri—Kristi Campbell, BS
- Workforce Development
Model: A Comprehensive Strategy for Workforce Development for
Environmental Public Health Professionals in South Carolina—Vicki
Blair and Stuart Crosby
Environmental Public Health Performance Standards
Environmental
Public Health Practice
- Collaborating for Positive Environmental Public Health Outcomes—Debbie Watts, MPH, RPES;
Larry Bergner, BS, RS; Ray Hankins, CPA, CPH; Tressa Madden, MPH, RES; Richard McDaniel, BS, RPES
- Cultural Competency– A Recipe
for Improving Environmental Public Health Practice and Research
within Racial and Ethnic Populations—James Mack BS, MPA
- Implementing the Use of Recent Digital Pen & Paper Technology at the New Mexico Department of Health – Scientific Laboratory Division—Phillip Adams, PhD
Environmental Public Health Service Programs
- A Case Study: The Downgrading of the Environmental Health Workforce in El Paso, Texas—William Wolff, MPH, MPA
- A Plan to Articulate and
Market the Value of the Environmental Health Infrastructure
and Environmental Health Service Delivery—David W. Pluymers,
MSTHA, RS
- Building Environmental Health Capacity in New Health Departments—Marlene Wilken, RN, PhD
- Coordination of Environmental
Public Health Services in Four Southeastern Oklahoma Counties—Montressa
Jo Elder, MS, RPS, Rocky McElvany, MS, RPS, Michael Echelle,
BS, RPS, Ted Evans, BS, RPS, and CDR Chris Buchanan, MPH, REHS
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Creating a Comprehensive Public
Swimming Pool and Water Attraction Program to Provide Safe Water
Recreation in Wisconsin—Tracynda Davis, MPH
- Develop Long-Term Environmental
Health Services For Three North East Counties in North Dakota—Allen
McKay, RS, EHP
- Developing and Implementing a Coordinated Environmental Health Services Delivery System in New Hampshire—Richard Rumba, MPH
- Development of a Comprehensive
Educational Program to Increase Compliance Among Dry Cleaners—Dawn
Prandi, REHS
- Development of a Systematic Operations and Maintenance Program for On-Site Septic Systems in Rural County, Washington State—Jeff Nelson, RS
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Enhancing Community Capacity to Meet Environmental Health Needs in Rural Alaska—Mary O’Connor, MS, REHS
- Ensuring a Competent Workforce and Sustaining Program Improvements in Environmental Health—Jennifer
Pinnow, REHS/RS
- Environmental
Health Promotion Campaign in West Virginia—Michelle Cochran,
BS, RS, Ann Spaner, JD, BA, and Barbara S. Taylor, BS, MS
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Establishing a Vector Control
Program In Polk County Wisconsin—Brian Hobbs, BS, RS, EHS
- Expanding Environmental Health Initiatives Within the Local Community Without
Compromising Core Environmental Health Functions—Susan G. King, MS
- Formation of an Illegal Dumping
Prevention Program To Reduce Potential Impacts of E. Coli
0157:H7 in Agricultural Produce Grown in Monterey County—John
C.Ramirez, MPA, REHS
- Implementation of a Countywide
Vector Control Program in Shelby County, Tennessee—Lorrie
Clark, MSPH
- Implementing the Use of Recent Digital Pen & Paper Technology at the New Mexico Department of Health – Scientific Laboratory Division—Phillip Adams, PhD
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Increasing Environmental Public Health Knowledge at Local Public Health Agencies—Kristi Campbell, BS
- Integration of a Pilot Program to Increase Environmental Sanitation Inspection Reliability And Efficacy—Tyler Zerwekh, DrPH
- Shifting Culture Without a
Louisville Slugger; Building Trust, Pride, Honesty, and Integrity—Matthew
Rhodes, BS, RS
- State Environmental Health Directors
Association—Lisa Conti, DVM, MPH, ACVPM, CEHP
- Strengthening the Capacity of Rural Alaska Native Communities to Manage Environmental Health Concerns—Mary O’Connor, MS, REHS
- Training for Local Public Health Agency Environmental Staff in Missouri—Kristi Campbell, BS
Evaluation
Food Safety
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Assuring Food Safety and a Qualified Workforce in Suburban Cook County—LaTrice Porter-Thomas, MPH, LEHP
- Beyond Enforcement: Changing Food Retailer Habits and Thinking—Joseph Malinowski, REHS
- Collaboration of State and Local Health Departments in Adopting the FDA 2005 Model Food
Code—Ronald Marsden, BS, LEHS
- Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Plan to Protect the Food Supply and Reduce Risks of Food Borne Illness in the 2009 Presidential Inauguration—Peggy Keller, MPH
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Enhancing Community Capacity to Meet Environmental Health Needs in Rural Alaska—Mary O’Connor, MS, REHS
- Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigation—A
Recipe for Departmental Inclusion—Brian Hanft, REHS, MPA
- Formation of an Illegal Dumping
Prevention Program To Reduce Potential Impacts of E. Coli 0157:H7
in Agricultural Produce Grown in Monterey County—John C.
Ramirez, MPA, REHS
- Improving Communication and Collaboration Between Epidemiology
and Environmental Health Programs on Foodborne Illness Investigations—Barbara D. Will
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Increasing Environmental Public Health Knowledge at Local Public Health Agencies—Kristi Campbell, BS
- Managing Food Safety in Retail Food Establishments through the Implementation of Active Managerial Controls—Janet Stetzer, RS
- New Approaches to Reducing Vibrio Parahaemolyticus Infections from Shellfish Consumption—Keith Skiles, MPH
- Pioneering Food Safety in
the Last Frontier—Kimberly Stryker
- Procedures, Training, and
Verification: A Method to Reduce the Incidence and Reoccurrence
of Out-of-Control Food-Borne Illness Risk Factor and Food Code
Intervention Violations on Inspections—Angie Wheeler, REHS
- Responding to Shifting Patterns of Foodborne Illness: A Strategy to
Ensure a Competent Workforce—Christopher Gordon, MA, REHS, CFSP
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The Last Illegal Supper: Reducing the Number of Illegal Mobile Food Vendors?—Diana Wilson, REHS
- Training for Local Public Health Agency Environmental Staff in Missouri—Kristi Campbell, BS
- Unlicensed Food Vendors, A Different
Approach—K.C. Ely, BS, RPS, RPES
Greenwaste
Groundwater
- Child Cares, Septic Systems, and Public HealthChild Cares, Septic Systems,
and Public Health—Lisa A. Carpenter, MBA, REHS
- Implementing a Safe Drinking
Water Program for Private Individual Water Wells—Dwain Butler,
BA
- New Deliverables for Virginia’s
Onsite Sewage and Water Supply Programs: A Roadmap for Changing
Services—Dwayne Roadcap, REHS, CPSS, AOS
- Reducing Exposure to Arsenic
in Drinking Water—Karla R. Peterson, BCE, MAPA, PE
Health Impact Assessment
Health Risk Communication
Individual/Private Wells
Indoor Air Quality
- Building Local Capacity to
Respond to Indoor Mold Problems and Health Complaints—Jed
M. Waldman, PhD
- Community Radon Assessment—Wade
T. Sparkman, BBA
- Developing
a Respiratory Health and Indoor Environmental Quality Program
for the City of Alexandria, Virginia—Patricia Ferrao, BSc,
MSc, MA; Holly Feltner, BS, and Richard Michelback, REHS
- Establishing an Asthma Follow-Up Protocol on a Native American Reservation—Gary Carter, MPH
- Why Are We Not Building Upon the City’s Mold Regulation to Further Protect the Citizens in Philadelphia, Especially Those in Rental Properties?—Raymond Delaney, MBA
Infant Mortality
Injury Prevention
Interagency Coordination
- A Tale of Two Agencies: The Quest for Developing a Health Data Sharing Agreement—Greg Kearney, DrPH, MPH, RS
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An Analysis of the Border Health Infrastructure in Relation to Childhood Lead Toxicity Levels
Along the U.S. and Mexico Border—Debora Garcia, BSHS; Ana M. Valles-Medina, RN, MPH; Laura Reichhardt, BSHS
- Collaborating for Positive Environmental Public Health Outcomes—Debbie Watts, MPH, RPES; Larry Bergner, BS, RS; Ray Hankins, CPA, CPH; Tressa Madden, MPH, RES; Richard McDaniel, BS, RPES
- Collaboration of State and Local Health Departments in Adopting the FDA 2005 Model Food Code—Ronald Marsden, BS, LEHS
- Coordination of Environmental
Public Health Services in Four Southeastern Oklahoma Counties—Montressa
Jo Elder, MS, RPS, Rocky McElvany, MS, RPS, Michael Echelle,
BS, RPS, Ted Evans, BS, RPS, and CDR Chris Buchanan, MPH, REHS
- Developing and Implementing a Coordinated Environmental Health Services Delivery System in New Hampshire—Richard Rumba, MPH
- Developing Universal Regulatory Guidelines for Special Events: A Multijurisdictional
Approach—Jeffrey Brasel, PhD, REHS
- Establishing a Tribal Environmental Health Collaborative in San Diego County—Paula Stigler, MSPH
- Improving Communication and Collaboration Between Epidemiology and Environmental Health Programs on
Foodborne Illness Investigations—Barbara D. Will
- Improving Mosquito Control Through Partnership Agreements That Create a More Effective Integrated Pest Management System—Edward Galligan, MS, MA, RS
- Increasing Citizen Emergency Preparedness: A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Jurisdictional Approach—Ami McLandsborough, BS, CSP and John Dunham, MS, RS
- Mutual Aid Agreement for Water
and Sewer Utilities—Doug Sims, BS, MPA
- Rabies Investigations: Are We Chasing Our Tail?—Robyn Atkinson, PhD
- State Environmental Health Directors
Association—Lisa Conti, DVM, MPH, ACVPM, CEHP
- Strengthening the Capacity of Rural Alaska Native Communities to Manage Environmental Health Concerns—Mary O’Connor, MS, REHS
Lead
Marketing
Environmental Health Services
Mercury
Methamphetamine
Lab Cleanup
Mold
Monitoring
and Warning Systems
Multihazards
Mutual Aid Agreements
Obesity
Onsite Sewage Disposal
- A Measure and Process for Improving Human Excreta Disposal Practice in Rural
Alaska Villages—Joe Sarcone, MSPH, RS
- Development of a Systematic Operations and Maintenance Program for On-Site Septic Systems in Rural County, Washington State—Jeff Nelson, RS
- Failure of Onsite Wastewater Systems: Definitions, Practices, and Public Health Protection— Max Zarate-Bermudez, MS, MPH, PhD
- New Deliverables for Virginia’s
Onsite Sewage and Water Supply Programs: A Roadmap for Changing
Services—Dwayne Roadcap, REHS, CPSS, AOS
- Using GIS and GPS as a Tool
For Site Evaluations for On-Site Ground Absorption Wastewater
Disposal Systems—David Troutman, RS
Pandemic Influenza
Policy and Legislation
Private
Unregulated Water Systems
Program Management
- Coordination of Environmental
Public Health Services in Four Southeastern Oklahoma Counties—Montressa
Jo Elder, MS, RPS, Rocky McElvany, MS, RPS, Michael Echelle,
BS, RPS, Ted Evans, BS, RPS, and CDR Chris Buchanan, MPH, REHS
- Creating a
Children's Environmental Health Program—Peter Isaksen, RS;
Jefferson S. Ketchel, RS; and Tracee Mayfield, RS
Public Utilities
Public Schools
Radon
Recreational Water
Recycling
Retention
Risk Factors
Safe Drinking Water
- Building Drinking Water
Capacity in Native Alaskan Villages—Cindy Christian, BA,
MPA
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Developing a Non-Public Water Supply Program for the State of Georgia—Scott Uhlich, MCP
- Enhancing Public Support of a Regional Source Water Monitoring Governance Structure in the Lake Huron to Lake Erie Corridor—Gary White, MS, RS
- Implementing a Safe Drinking
Water Program for Private Individual Water Wells—Dwain Butler,
BA
- Improving Data Quality and Consistency in the State of Alaska’s
Drinking Water Program—Jeanine Oakland, BS
- Mutual Aid Agreement for Water
and Sewer Utilities—Doug Sims, BS, MPA
- New Deliverables for Virginia’s
Onsite Sewage and Water Supply Programs: A Roadmap for Changing
Services—Dwayne Roadcap, REHS, CPSS, AOS
- Public Drinking Water: Building Consumer Confidence through Education—Edwin Sims, PE
- Public Health Protection
for Private Unregulated Water Systems—James Mazurowski
- Public Health Significance of Unregulated and Untested Private
Potable Wells—Albert Gray, MPH
- Reducing Exposure to Arsenic
in Drinking Water—Karla R. Peterson, BCE, MAPA, PE
School Indoor Air
Quality
Septic Systems
Sewage
Sewage Disposal
Sewer Utilities
Solid Waste
State
Environmental Health Directors
Swimming Pools
Toxic Exposures
Training Program
University Curricula
- Improving Public Health
Services and Saving Resources: Hiring Graduates from Accredited
Environmental Health Programs—Timothy Murphy, PhD, REHS,
CHMM, CET and Jeffrey S. Neistadt, MS, RS
- Making the Connections Outside the Clinic: Adding Public Health and
Environmental Public Health Education to Medical School Curriculum—Roger Perales, MPH, RS
- Saving University Environmental
Health Programs—Alice L. Anderson, MS, PhD
Vector Control
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Establishing a Vector Control
Program In Polk County Wisconsin—Brian Hobbs, BS, RS, EHS
- Expanding Environmental Health Initiatives Within the Local Community Without
Compromising Core Environmental Health Functions—Susan G. King, MS
- Implementation of a Countywide
Vector Control Program in Shelby County, Tennessee—Lorrie
Clark, MSPH
- Improving Mosquito Control Through Partnership Agreements That Create a More Effective Integrated Pest Management System—Edward Galligan, MS, MA, RS
- Rabies Investigations: Are We Chasing Our Tail?—Robyn Atkinson, PhD
Wastewater
Water Attractions