Interactive Map: Success Stories by State

Tracking Data and Tools Inform Arizona’s COVID-19 Response

Fun fact! Arizona participated in the Environmental Public Health Tracking Peer-to-Peer Fellowship Program sponsored jointly by CDC and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

• Improving Breast Cancer Patient Outreach and Education
• Mapping Tool Identifies Communities at Risk for Public Water Challenges
• Preventing Exposures to Nitrates in Drinking Water
• Identifying Exposures to Air Pollution from Traffic
• Identifying the increases in preterm birth rates in Fresno County, California
• Using a traffic tool in San Francisco city planning
• Improving community access to useful information
• Heat Wave Preparedness

• Addressing Concerns about Elevated Levels of Uranium in Drinking Water
• Improved Data Quality
• Using environmental health indicators for assessment and planning
• Evaluating radon exposure

• Tracking the relationship between bladder cancer and environmental contamination
• Improving evaluation of asthma programs

• Tracking Program Study Shows Filters Can Reduce Exposure to Arsenic from Well Water
• Fostering Asthma-friendly Schools
• Asthma and Outdoor Air Quality
• Birth defects monitoring system
• Consuming fish safely: Mercury biomonitoring project

• Improving Vaccination Rates to Prevent Cancer
• Tracking Data Assist Regional Planning Efforts
• Linking Lead Exposure to Risk Factors
• Pesticides in Private Water Wells
• Understanding the Relationships between Nitrates and Cancer

• Protecting Kansas Residents from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
• Mapping childhood lead poisoning data
• Decreasing cancer Cluster response time
• Partnering with Kansas Radon Program

Supporting a Public Health Response to Arsenic Contamination

Fun fact! Kentucky participated in the Environmental Public Health Tracking Peer-to-Peer Fellowship Program sponsored jointly by CDC and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

• Deepwater Horizon (British Petroleum) Oil Spill
• Addressing concerns from imported drywall
• Carbon Monoxide Exposures
• Educating private well water users about contamination

• Promoting Early Detection and Prevention of Lyme Disease
• Tracking Data Inform Well Water Safety Campaign
• Educating Residents about a New Risk for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
• Preventing childhood lead poisoning
• Reducing carbon monoxide poisoning
• Tracking the effect of outdoor air quality on health

• Answering community concerns about cancer
• Improving drinking water quality data in private water wells
• Tracking air pollution and asthma

• Easing Community Concerns about Effects of Toxic Chemicals on Children’s Health
• Tracking Data Helps Inform Decisions about Transportation Projects
• Investigating Parents’ Concerns about Childhood Cancer
• Examining the relationship between cancer rates and proximity to a nuclear power plant
• Informing policymakers and protecting community health
• Collaborating with federal agencies to improve public health

Michigan became a Tracking Program grantee in 2014. They are working hard to get their program up and running and will have successes to report soon.

Fun fact! Michigan participated in the Environmental Public Health Tracking Peer-to-Peer Fellowship Program sponsored jointly by CDC and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

• Using Tracking Network Data to Improve Outreach and Awareness
• Preparing for Extreme Heat Events
• Preventing Melanoma
• Evaluating Indoor Smoking Ban Legislation to Protect Residents from Secondhand Smoke
• Tracking the impact of a statewide carbon monoxide (CO) alarm law
• Understanding the relationship between climate change and public health

• Providing easy-to-access information during extreme heat events
• The effect of building demolitions on blood lead levels in children

• Reducing radon exposure
• Measuring the impact of climate change
• Improving melanoma reporting measures

• Tracking Programs Aid in Disaster Response during Hurricane Sandy
• Providing Useful and Easy-to-Access Data for Improved Maternal and Child Health Services
• Helping to reduce the number of children that are exposed to lead
• Improving the ability to share environmental information between state agencies
• Providing information on disease rates to advocacy organizations, health planners, health care providers, and governmental agencies

• Protecting New Mexico Residents from Wildfire Smoke
• Improving Public Health Services
• Uranium unknowns: Making connections and directing health action
• A team approach to addressing cancer concerns
• Improving emergency response in rural areas

New York State

• NY State Tracking Data Help Make Kemble Street Park a Reality in Utica Community
• Tracking Programs Aid in Disaster Response during Hurricane Sandy
• Answering Concerns about Neighborhood Air Quality
• Tracking carbon monoxide risk factors to prevent poisonings
• Providing neighborhood-level cancer data
• Assisting with public health investigations

New York City

• Tracking Programs Aid in Disaster Response during Hurricane Sandy
• Tracking Data Inform City Planning for Extreme Heat Events
• Informing health care providers about asthma
• Guiding policy on pesticide use
• Improving public health responses to climate change
• Making restaurants safer
• Informing local laws to reduce health problems caused by air pollution
• Supporting prevention of carbon monoxide poisonings

• Increasing Awareness of and Testing for Radon
• Understanding indoor air quality in businesses that serve liquor
• Reducing exposure to arsenic from drinking water

• Asthma school project(2004-2005 school year)
• Arsenic concentrations in groundwater
• Documenting elevated blood lead levels

Rhode Island became a Tracking Program grantee in 2017. They are working hard to get their program up and running and will have successes to report soon.

Fun fact! Rhode Island participated in the Environmental Public Health Tracking Peer-to-Peer Fellowship Program sponsored jointly by CDC and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

• South Carolina Tracking’s MyFish Mercury Calculator Aids Consumers in Making Informed Dietary Decisions
• Protecting Adults from Lead Exposure
• Making environmental health data accessible to everyone
• Sharing information about the coastal environment

• Lowering exposure to arsenic from private well water
• Addressing a cancer cluster concern
• Reducing exposure to lead

• Protecting Vermont Residents from Harmful Algal Blooms
• Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Track Ticks
• Understanding the geography of asthma
• Tracking fluoride in drinking water
• Improving cross-border public health investigations

• Tracking Program’s Radon Risk Map Prompts Testing, Protects Lives
• Preventing Accidental Carbon Monoxide Deaths
• Helping Communities Connect Air Pollution Control and Improved Health
• Improved Public Health Surveillance and Action for Lead

• Active Alerts for a Public Health Emergency: The Case of Carbon Monoxide
• Wisconsin Tracking Program Bridges the Lead Data Gap
• Addressing community concerns about outdoor wood boilers
• Identification of environmental health issues for prioritizing local health activities
• Clean drinking water in areas vulnerable to contamination