Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative

The Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative recognizes that upstream factors affect the health of communities downstream. The collaborative works to create healthier communities for all through partnerships, information-sharing and elevating environmental health.

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Cover of Achieving Environmental Health Equity: The Need and Opportunities for Public Health ActionAchieving Environmental Health Equity: The Need and Opportunities for Public Health Action (PDF)

Environmental health disparities are the result of current and historic systemic exclusion, disenfranchisement and disinvestment of specific communities and individuals in the U.S. If environmental and public health organizations and leaders want to provide effective environmental health services, they must take action towards health equity, using a comprehensive social justice paradigm, both internally and externally. This two-part issue brief provides a description and examples of health disparities and their systemic and structural causes and a series of opportunities for action for public health organizations.

Achieving Environmental Health Equity: Opportunities for Public Health Action - 2 pages (PDF)

Achieving Environmental Health Equity: Opportunities for Public Health Action - 1 page (PDF)


Inclusion and Diversity for Equitable Advancement in Environmental Health Award

Three attendees at APHA2022 posing with an award At APHA's 2022 Annual Meeting and Expo, the collaborative presented the 2022 IDEA EH award to Backyard Basecamp, a Baltimore nonprofit. 

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About the Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative

Our environments impact our health. The Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative is a group of environmental health professionals acting as a unified voice for environmental health. The Collaborative promotes environmental health through resource-sharing and coordinating efforts around these priority areas:

  • Climate
  • Environmental health awareness and communication
  • Environmental health workforce and education
  • Systems and infrastructure

members of the Environmental Health Coalition on a Zoom meeting

Collaborative Co-Chairs: Kristie Trousdale, Children's Environmental Health Network and Cara Cook, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

Want to learn more about the Collaborative and our work? Email us.

  

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