A. New Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute, Fourth Cohort

    Applications will be accepted for the fourth cohort of CDC's Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (EPHLI) at http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ephli from Sept. 1-Oct. 31, 2007. Please help us spread the word about the Institute to emerging leaders who may be in your organization or region. I would like to challenge each of you to get one person from your department or state to apply to be a part of the next cohort. The Institute is also interested in reaching participants from states that have not yet participated in the Institute. States that have not been represented are Wyoming, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland and Hawaii.

    EPHLI application instructions and promotional materials can be downloaded from http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ephli/application.htm. You can also be linked to these materials on the EPHLI Web site at http://www.heartlandcenters.slu.edu:16080/ephli/admission.htm.

    If you have any questions, please visit the CDC Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ephli or contact Sharon Dickerson, MPA, by e-mail at SDickerson@cdc.gov or by telephone at (770)488-7069.

    Thank you for your continued support toward the development of leaders in the field of environmental public health.

Submitted by Nicole Kozma, Project Coordinator-EPHLI, Saint Louis University, School of Public Health.

    B. Brownfields Proposal Announcement

The US Enivironmental Protection Agency Brownfields Office has posted the FY08 Proposal guidelines to the Web site listing below.  The deadline for applications was Oct. 12, 2007.  In FY07, we announced awards of close to $70 million in grants and anticipate similar grant award totals this coming year. If you are eligible (see guidelines) and interested in applying for brownfield grant funds, we encourage you to work with an experienced brownfield grant recipient. Alternatively, you may want to partner with your environmental, planning, community or economic development agency in developing an application to assess and clean brownfields that support sustainable redevelopment in ways that seek to improve public and environmental health.

Our fact sheet about brownfields and public health and eligible health monitoring activities can be found under the tools and technical assistance portion of our Web site at http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/tools/tti_pub_hlt.htm. To learn more about the brownfields program or potential brownfields partners in your area, please visit www.epa.gov/brownfields.

Submitted by Ann Carroll MPH, Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment, MC-5105T, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency