Environmental Health Resources, Tools and Links


Listservs
Grant-makers and Grant Announcements

Links and Resources

Listservs

National Center for Environmental Health, CDC Env-Health-Listserv
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a listserv to enable environmental health practitioners to share information and discuss issues pertinent to the profession.

Occ-Env-Med-L Internet Mail-List
The Occ Env-Med-L Mail-List is operated by Duke University's Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine.  This forum is a free means for clinicians and public health professionals to instantly send information to thousands of readers all over the world, and to receive near-instantaneous information from colleagues.  It provides a forum for announcements and academic discussion and is designed to allow presentation of clinical vignettes, synopses of new regulatory issues and reports of interesting items from publications elsewhere (both medical and non-medical journals).

Children's Environmental Health Network Science and Community Listservs
The Children's Environmental Health Network operates two listservs to enhance discussion on pediatric environmental health issues and further its integration into teaching and clinical practice.  The Science Listserv is specifically for researchers/basic scientists, clinical health care providers, and/or public health officials.

The Community Listserv is for a wider audience and it provides information about children's environmental health issues and a forum for policy and advocacy issue discussions.  The Community Listserv includes:

  • Announcements (conferences, call for proposals, funding opportunities)
  • Access to resources (education materials, teaching tools, publications)
  • Case studies
  • Reports of pediatric environmental health policy
  • Academic discussion of pediatric environmental health issues
  • Opportunities to network with your colleagues

Grant-makers and Grant Announcements

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Various funding opportunities

The Jenifer Altman Foundation

Mitchell Kapor Foundation

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Extramural Programs and Funding Opportunities

National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
Division of Intramural Research

National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
Division of Extramural  Research and Training

Links and Resources

Government Resources
Professional Associations

Non-profit Organizations

Educational Resources


Government Resources

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Environmental Health Topics

Environmental Protection Agency's Information Sources

EPA's Health Risk Assessments

EPA's Office of Air and Radiation

EPA's Office of Children's Health

EPA's Office of Pesticide Program

EPA's Office of Water

Healthfinder, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

National Center for Environmental Health

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

TOXNET, National Library of Medicine


Professional Associations

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Pediatrics*

American College of Medical Toxicology*

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

American Industrial Hygiene Association

APHA's Environmental and Occupational Health Links

Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs

Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics*

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials*

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

National Association of County and City Health Officials*

National Environmental Health Association*

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Society for Occupational and Environmental Health

Non-profit Organizations

Alliance for Healthy Homes

American Cancer Society, Environmental and Occupational Cancer Risks

American Water Works Association

Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, NAS

Center for Children's Health and the Environment

Center for Health, Environment, and Justice

Children's Environmental Health Network

Environmental Defense

Migrant Clinicians Network

National Alliance for Hispanic Health*

National Environmental Education & Training Foundation

National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center

Trust for America's Health

Educational Resources

American Lung Association, Clean Air Standards

Center for Applied Environmental Public Health

Chemical Scorecard, Environmental Defense

Drinking Water Quality, NEETF

Env. Clinical Research Training Prog. for Nurses and Physicians

EnviroDx:  Environmental Medicine Computer Based Educational Program

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment

NIEHS Community Outreach & Education Program Resource Center

National Pesticide Information Center

Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units

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