162740 Fostering Environmental Public Health Leadership in the 21st Century

Monday, November 5, 2007: 10:30 AM

Sharunda Buchanan, MS, PhD , Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, CDC's National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA
Robert G. Blake, MPH REHS , Environmental Health Services Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
           
The Environmental Public Health Institute (EPHLI) was established by the Environmental Health Services Branch of NCEH in 2005 to strengthen the environmental public health system in the United States by enhancing the leadership capabilities of state and local environmental health specialists from various agencies and organizations. Included among past and current EPHLI fellows are state and local directors of environmental health, military environmental health professionals, faculty at accredited environmental health academic programs, staff of CDC public health partner organizations, tribal environmental health professionals and even a state legislator. This presentation will offer discussion about continuation of the leadership institute, as well as opportunities for leveraging and broadening support across individual disciplines. Also presented, will be opportunities for engaging mentors from state, local, academic, and community environmental health programs.

Learning Objectives:
1) Describe the Environmental Public Health Institute. 2) Explain benefits of EPHLI mentoring. 3) Describe available workforce development opportunities that result in improvement of environmental health practice

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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