Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT)

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).