The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
How participatory science empowers communities to advance scientific knowledge in fields that are important to them.
Dec 26, 2023 | Guest Author
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Nov 17, 2022 | Beth Hess
Rising temperatures across the globe is a consequence of climate change, and Austin, Texas, is no exception.
Jul 13, 2021 | Guest Author
Life in a community experiencing long-term environmental contamination can be stressful for many reasons.
Mar 24, 2021 | Guest Author
As part of their research on human exposure to ticks, Columbia University has developed a smartphone application to collect data...
Jun 08, 2020
The environment contributes to human health and well-being through benefits including clean water, clean air, and protection from...
Apr 16, 2020 | Guest Author
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Smoke Sense mobile application is now available in Spanish on...
Jul 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Local governments have a new science-based resource to tackle climate challenges with the release of the report,‘Evaluating Knowledge...
Apr 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Ana Rappold, Mary Clare Hano, Steven Prince and Ann Brown, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Hospitals, clinics, and...
Oct 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
As part of their research on human exposure to ticks, Columbia University has developed a smartphone application to collect data through simple surveys with a citizen science approach: The Tick App.
The environment contributes to human health and well-being through benefits including clean water, clean air, and protection from natural hazards, also known as ecosystem goods and services. This year, as we celebrate the international 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also marks 50 years of protecting human health and the environment.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Smoke Sense mobile application is now available in Spanish on Android and iOS devices. Users’ native (default) device settings will determine the language displayed in the Smoke Sense app. EPA researchers developed the citizen science mobile app called Smoke Sense as part of a public health […]
Local governments have a new science-based resource to tackle climate challenges with the release of the report,‘Evaluating Knowledge to Support Climate Action’ and launch of the Science for Climate Action Network. The report, published in Weather, Climate and Society and summarized in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, was authored by nearly forty science and local government...
By Ana Rappold, Mary Clare Hano, Steven Prince and Ann Brown, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Hospitals, clinics, and public health organizations in wildfire-prone areas of the West and Southwest are seeing firsthand the impacts of wildfire season on public health. As these fires become larger, more frequent, and more intense—leaving smoke-filled skies for days, […]
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