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Regional Academic Environmental Public Health Center


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Purpose

The purpose of the Regional Academic Environmental Health Center is to assist local, state, and tribal Environmental Health units in developing the capacity to provide effective, state-of-the-art environmental public health programs. The Center aims to do this by assessing the workforce using the fourteen environmental health core competencies as well as by identifying organizational barriers, challenges, opportunities, and successes in a nine-state region. This three-year project, begun in September 2004, is supported by the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is part of CDC's effort to build capacity in environmental public health services.

Region

Map showing the nine states represented by the RAEPHC

The Academic Center serves these nine states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming.

Objectives

  • Identify the environmental public health capacity and technical assistance needs in the nine Northwest and Plains states
  • Provide direct assistance to agencies in the nine-state region by conducting training, providing technical assistance, performing program and service delivery assessments and evaluations, and helping to develop environmental health policy plans
  • Disseminate to the environmental health practice community findings based on the experiences of local, state, and tribal environmental health units
  • Evaluate the outcomes of the Center's partnerships and collaborations

If you have questions or comments about this project, please send an e-mail. We have also created a one-page handout of this overview that is formatted for printing.

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