Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)

Healthy communities focus on the complex interactions of the social and environmental factors that determine health at a macro level. This requires studying not only the effects of biological, chemical, and physical agents but also socioeconomic factors, including housing, urban development, land use, transportation, industry, and agriculture. Specific research areas may include: outdoor air quality, surface and recreational water quality, human exposure to industrial or agricultural waste streams, the psychosocial environment, community stressors, and environmental justice and tribal issues.
Environmental Health Chat Podcasts
- When Wildfires Hit Close to Home - March 5, 2020
PEPH Grantee Highlights
- Dana Haine - Mixing Research with Creativity to Appeal to Learners - March 12, 2020
- Laurel Schaider, Ph.D. - On the Frontlines of PFAS Research - February 3, 2020
PEPH Webinars
- Citizen Science Programs at the Centers for Oceans and Human Health - February 25, 2020
Resources
- Best Practices: Sharing Environmental Health Research (Wayne State University, University of Michigan, Texas A&M University)
- Building Equitable Partnerships for Environmental Justice – Curriculum (University of California, Davis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) (2MB)
- Case Study: A Civil Action - Lesson Plan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) (133KB)
- Diné Citizen Science Protocol Instructions on Sampling Water for Emergency Response (University of Arizona)
- Environmental Health Infographics (University of Southern California)
- Extreme Heat and Children's Health (University of Michigan)
- Facts on Arsenic (Dartmouth College)
- Guidebook for Developing a Community Air Monitoring Network (Public Health Institute)
- How to Process Core Sediment Samples (University of Arizona)
- Introducing Students to Environmental Justice: A North Carolina Case Study - Lesson Plan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Mercury: From Source to Seafood (Dartmouth College)
- NC BREATHE Conference (Clean Air Carolina)
- NC Disaster Response and Recovery — Environmental Health Resources (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- PFAS Exchange
- Public Health Action Plan: Improving Air Quality & Health in Detroit - 2017 (University of Michigan)
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