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Water Webinar Series
This four-webinar series highlights recreational water illness, the changes to the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC), and implementation of the new MAHC.Recreational Water IllnessesApril 27, 2023Over the last 20–30 years, CDC has led efforts to d...
January/February 2025
Journal of Environmental Health Volume 87, Number 6 View the IssueAbout the Cover Preventing foodborne illness within military operations is essential to maintain the security and defense capabilities of units. This month's cover article eva...
December 2024
Journal of Environmental Health Volume 87, Number 5 View the IssueAbout the Cover Tropospheric ozone concentrations have trended downward in many U.S. cities since 2000. In Texas, however, concentrations and regulatory exceedances abruptly ro...
Advocacy Insights Webinar Series
Advocacy Insights Join us for our next Advocacy Insights Webinar scheduled on the third Thursday of each month at 3 pm E.T. New registration link, if you previously registered for this series please re-register and use this link going forward.Re...
Advocacy Insights
WebinarsJoin our Director of Government Affairs each month for our Advocacy Insights webinars. Each session provides the newest information on current and ongoing activities in local, state, and federal environmental public health policy. Access...
AI in Environmental Health Practice
*Spotlight Event - AI (Artificial Intelligence) at 51°µÍø AEC 2025*AI in Environmental Health: Navigating the Readiness Spectrum for a Smarter FutureArtificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant innovation—it is already embedded in the way w...
Student Career Skills Webinar Series
Learn from experts how to showcase your experiences and accomplishments in environmental health. Writing & Talking About Your Accomplishments in Resumes, Cover Letters & Interviews November 14, 2024 Recording This webinar focused on effe...
Leadership: The Hard Facts of Soft Skills
This webinar series focused on soft skills with experts discussing the current information ecosystem, effective messaging, social and emotional skills, and working with the media. Each webinar is eligible for one CE per hour. Check out the f...
Food Safety Webinars
Clearing the Fog: Cleaners, Sanitizers, Disinfectants; What Sets Them Apart? A Foodservice PrimerApril 3, 2024Confusion among end users in the food service industry regarding cleaners, disinfectants, and sanitizers is common due to a lack of awa...
Concurrent Disaster Response Success Story
This success story describes how the Environmental Division of the Town of Addison, Texas faced the challenges of a winter storm during COVID-19 in the context of ensuring food safety, public health, and providing warming stations and power to a...
Opinion: Compound Risks and Complex Emergencies Require New Approaches to Preparedness
This article calls for a need to redesign institutions to be proactive, agile, and socially just when confronted with compound risks that have become increasingly likely. This resource includes: Risk reduction framework and funding Pandemic l...
COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health
This article discusses features of the built environment that affect the risk of COVID-19 and identify elements of the pandemic response with implications for the built environment and for long-term public health. This resource includes: Influe...
Compounding Hazards and Intersecting Vulnerabilities
This report discusses study findings that measure how COVID-19 affected extreme heat vulnerability during the summer of 2020. This resource includes: Examination of socio-demographic characteristics and pandemic related factors Examined vulne...
The COVID-19 Crisis Worsens With the Occurrence of Climate Extremes and Disasters
This article examines the impacts of climate disasters and COVID-19 in Africa and provides suggestions for countries to strengthen their emergency department by boosting the staff component, provide adequate technical support and develop detaile...
Changing Vulnerability for Hurricane Evacuation During a Pandemic
This article examines data from workshops involving emergency management and public health experts to support planning for hurricane evacuation and sheltering. This resource includes: Policy integration findings Expanded protections for popula...
Supporting Wildfire Response During a Pandemic in the United States
This article reviews the development and application of a COVID-19 Incident Risk Assessment Tool. The tool includes summary of usage statistics, examples of real use on wildfire incidents, and report feedback from users. The tool was used to fil...
Potential Impact of Earthquakes During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
This article analyzes the potential impact that seismic events may have on the infection rate within regions afflicted by both epidemics and earthquakes. It also explores open software packages that can be employed to simulate the impact of futu...
The United States COVID-19 Pandemic in the Flood Season
This article outlines a tool that assesses the compound risk of COVID-19 at the county level. The article found that the number of flood insurance house claims can proxy the displaced population accurately with more spatiotemporal detail, and th...
Challenges for the Disaster Workforce During a Compound Hurricane-Pandemic
This article identifies how emergency management planning for both the changing dynamics of COVID-19 and hurricane season may change under a compound threat. COVID-19 and the increase of natural disasters occurring pushes new considerations to b...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Smoke
This article identifies the potential for dangerous interactions between COVID-19 and smoke pollution This resource includes: Strategies to manage the combination of public health threats Recommended for environmental and public health officia...
Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic
This article combines wildfire data with varying courses of the spread of COVID-19 to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for managing patient demand. It shows that losing access to medical care is a function of the relative occur...
The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters
Experiencing a natural disaster at the same time as a global pandemic is associated with negative impacts on mental health. This article studies resiliency at the individual and community levels to understand problematic impacts following a disa...
Studying Social Workers' Roles in Natural Disasters During a Global Pandemic
This article shares practice and research recommendations for a social worker relating to therapeutic interactions, social justice, and public health during disasters. Social workers are viewed as a source of reliable information about safety, r...
Caring for the Forgotten Children: Rebuilding Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, Earthquakes, and COVID-19
This article focuses on mental health resiliency within child and adolescent groups as well as the general community members. Communities have vulnerabilities that are often displayed when being impacted by disasters and it is important to learn...
Dueling Emergencies: Flood Evacuation Ridesharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper examines the complexity behind the decision-making relating to rideshare during an emergency like COVID-19. Sharing resources during disaster events like vehicles, supports the expansion of critical capacity and enables inclusive disa...
Nonprofit Response to Concurrent and Consecutive Disaster Events in Puerto Rico
This article examines how nonprofit organizations are prominent stakeholders when working in community-level recovery efforts. It explores the role of nonprofits to facilitate dynamic information flows, fill in critical service delivery gaps lef...
Mutual Aid: A Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management
This article provides lessons for a more equitable approach to emergency management. Grassroots mutual aid programs regained prominence when supporting equitable approaches to emergency management during many concurrent disasters in 2020. Disast...
Concurrent Threats and Disasters: Modeling and Managing Risk and Resilience
This article provides a literature review of how policymakers were prompted to reassess operations and management strategies that support society’s critical functions like infrastructure, healthcare services, supply chains, and emergency respons...
Spark! Webinar Series
Spark! is an ongoing series of members-only skill-building webinars, provided in short half-hour segments to fit your busy schedule. Each webinar provides .5 CEs toward maintaining your 51°µÍø credential. These webinars are only available on our C...
The Impact of Natural Disasters on the Spread of COVID-19
This journal article discusses es how natural disasters and infectious disease disrupts human health and livelihood. It modeled a concurrent disaster scenario on the impact of infection related fatalities. This resource contains information on: ...
Climate and Health Adaptation and Mitigation Program
The CHAMP program encourages local jurisdictions to progress toward meeting Healthy People 2030 objectives, promotes health equity by raising awareness of how climate change-associated environmental health hazards disproportionately ...
Water Webinar Series
This four-webinar series highlights recreational water illness, the changes to the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC), and implementation of the new MAHC.Recreational Water IllnessesApril 27, 2023Over the last 20–30 years, CDC has led efforts to d...
Environmental Health Grand Rounds
These virtual seminars provide continuing education for environmental health professionals to enhance skills and knowledge and support program decision-making and best practices. The series highlights current and emerging environmental hazards a...
NEARS Success Stories
We surveyed CDC NEARS participants about their experiences with this program. See what they had to say:"This is one of the most educational trainings out there. You learn from case studies and from field examples, and the level of connection wit...
World Food Safety Day
World Food Safety Day is observed annually on June 7. The United Nations declared the observance in 2018 and it is jointly facilitated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). ...
Vectors & Pests Webinars
We aim to improve our capacity to identify and understand emerging vectors found in the United States. Our webinars provide up-to-date information on vector control topics and resources used to protect the public from the transmission of vector-...
Project Firstline
We are proud to partner with the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) for Project Firstline. The CDC's Project Firstline is a collaborative of diverse healthcare and public health partners that have come together to provide healt...
RFFM Resources
FDA Retail Program Standards ResourcesFDA Retail Program Standards Homepage | WebpageInstructions to Enroll in FDA's Retail Program Standards | WebpageSelf-Assessment/Audit Verification Summary & Gap Analysis Tool (For GY25- 26 Grantees) | W...
Legionella
The rate of reported legionellosis cases has increased by nearly five and a half times since 2000. Legionella is bacteria that is naturally-occurring in fresh water aquatic systems and becomes a risk when it enters human-made water and plumbing ...
Legally Covered Seminar
An epidemiologist and environmental health specialist describe the legal authority to perform routine environmental health inspections, routine disease surveillance, and outbreak investigation and control measures. This seminar is specific to Co...
Legal Aspects of Public Health Food Safety
Introduction to legal issues that arise in public health food safety from surveillance and outbreak investigation through restaurant inspections and detention of food.*Although this training is routine inspection focused, the skills taught are a...
Informatics & Tracking Webinars
Connecting Private Sector Data with Environmental Public Health Agencies Environmental public health data is collected by regulatory agencies across the country, but also collected across a multitude of private sector organizations. T...
Healthy Homes Webinars
Design for Environmental Health Risk Communication: Lessons from the EPA Flooded Homes Website ProjectThis webinar discussed human-centered design techniques that environmental health professionals can use to develop health risk communication. P...
Healthy Homes
Housing plays a central role in the health of our communities, particularly as the environmental health workforce works to help communities adapt and respond before, during, and after weather events like extreme heat, extreme cold, hurricanes, f...
Harmful Algal Blooms
Rapid algae overgrowth can result in harmful algal blooms (HABs). Blooms can be both toxic and non-toxic but always have a detrimental effect on marine life in the affected area. Algal blooms most often occur in still or slow-moving water and ar...
Foodborne Pathogen Webinar Series
Get back to basics during Food Safety Education Month. During this 4-part webinar series, subject matter experts shared their expertise on foodborne pathogens like Salmonella, Vibrio, Cyclospora, and norovirus. Don't miss this opportunity to div...
Food Safety Education Month
Each September, we celebrate National Food Safety Education Month by highlighting the tools and resources we offer around food safety education, and recognizing our members who work diligently to maintain safe food across the country. Our food s...
Preparedness Webinars
We aim to improve the capacity of environmental health to address emergency health threats and improve the national preparedness, response, and recovery framework. Review the webinars for up-to-date information on community preparedness topics a...