Successful Partnership to Provide Critical Environmental Health Response Training to Practitioners

Arledge, Shannon, Journal of Environmental Health

Editor's Note: This is the first of two columns this month about the Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER) Awareness Level course. NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal.

In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will highlight a variety of concerns, opportunities, challenges, and successes that we all share in environmental public health. EHSB's objective is to strengthen the role of state, local, and national environmental health programs and professionals to anticipate, identify, and respond to adverse environmental exposures and the consequences of these exposures for human health. The services being developed through EHSB include access to topical, relevant, and scientific information; consultation; and assistance to …

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Publication information: Article title: Successful Partnership to Provide Critical Environmental Health Response Training to Practitioners. Contributors: Arledge, Shannon - Author. Journal title: Journal of Environmental Health. Volume: 72. Issue: 10 Publication date: June 2010. Page number: 36+. © 1999 National Environmental Health Association. COPYRIGHT 2010 Gale Group.

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