154573 State and local perspectives on community based environmental health initiatives

Monday, November 5, 2007: 5:00 PM

Robert G. Blake, MPH REHS , Environmental Health Services Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
        
The DeKalb County, GA, Board of Health was a recipient of an EPA CARE level one grant to conduct a community-based environmental health assessment. This grant enabled the Environmental Health Division to interact with one community within the county using the NACCHO Protocol for Assessing Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE-EH) methodology. Based on the experience as the Environmental Health Director at the DeKalb County Board of Health and on his new role as the Director for Environmental Health Services Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the presenter will discuss the effort to support the work of local environmental health units in community based environmental health initiatives. The presenter will also discuss the significance of the new federal collaboration to local and state efforts to support community-based environmental health initiatives.

Learning Objectives:
Describe a local implementation of an EPA Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) grant and how states can support local community based environmental health initiatives.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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