Environmental Public Health Tracking 101

Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) is the ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data on environmental hazards, exposures to those hazards, and health effects that may be related to the exposures. The goal of tracking is to provide information that can be used to plan, apply, and evaluate actions to prevent and control environmentally related diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently leading the initiative to build a National EPHT Network, which will integrate these three types of data into a standardized electronic network, which will provide valid scientific information on environmental exposures and adverse health conditions as well as the possible ways they may be related temporally and spatially.

This course, Environmental Public Health Tracking 101, gives an overview of the major components of Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT). The course is divided into 12 modules. Each module focuses on a different subject. You may choose to take as many of the modules as you like, in any order.  After completion of all tracks and then taking the online quizzes, you can download your course certificate for 4 NEHA Approved CE Credits.

Module 1:  Introduction

Module 2:  The National EPHT Initiative

Module 3:  The National EPHT Network

Module 4:  The Basics of Public Health Surveillance

Module 5:  Environmental Hazard Data and Information

Module 6:  Introduction to Biomonitoring

Module 7:  Basics of Health Effects Data

Module 8:  Environmental Public Health Indicators

Module 9:  Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Module 10:  Introduction to Epidemiology

Module 11:  Policy and Practice

Module 12:  Communication