Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT)
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The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN) provides information from a nationwide network of integrated health and environmental data that drives actions to improve the health of communities. This national network, expected to go live in 2008, will provide information on the links between key environmental health indicators (air, carbon monoxide, lead, water) and the development of disease. NACCHO, in collaboration with the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is offering the local health perspective through strategies for strengthening collaboration and communication between state grantees and local health departments (LHDs). 
The CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking program has just announced a new funding opportunity for city, county, tribal, and state officials. This cooperative agreement will support grantee collaboration with CDC and other partners to build statewide networks, to adopt already developed standards and specifications for the implementation of these networks, and to participate in the development of future standards and specifications. Applications are due June 29, 2009. More » 
Advancing the Network Opportunities for State and Local Health Agencies 
The November-December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) was devoted entirely to environmental public health tracking. Articles in this issue of the Journal focus on the implementation of the national and state tracking networks, how to build partnerships for tracking, and the results of tracking projects. One particular article, From Patchwork to National Network, describes the need to create a national network and discusses how partnerships have resulted in actions that monitor public health and increase collaboration and information sharing. More » |
