Health & Environment Program
Goal: Improve public health through advanced environmental health knowledge
The Health & Environment Program focuses on advancing environmental knowledge among health professionals to improve health care and public health, with a special emphasis on children and other populations disproportionately impacted by environmental health disparities.
Through the development of national agendas, trainings, curriculum integration, and strategic partnerships, we facilitate the integration of environmental health into health care provider education and practice.
NEEF has undertaken several projects to incorporate environmental health into health care provider education under the Health Care Provider Initiative. These projects include:
What's New
Study evaluating NEEF's Children's Environmental Health Faculty Champions Initiative is published in the May issue of Environmental Health Perspectives
Free Online Continuing Education Course for Health Professionals on Pediatric Environmental Health: The course is based on the Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit, an American Academy of Pediatrics-endorsed clinical tool and was developed in conjunction with ATSDR Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, the University of California San Francisco Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Greater Boston. NEEF's Pediatric Environmental History Form is included in the course.
NEEF's Pediatric Asthma and Pediatric Environmental History resources are now available in Spanish.