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Environmental Health Competencies : Prepared for the Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative’s Workforce & Education Workgroup
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April 2020
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Description:The Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative is a group of environmental health professionals convened by APHA and funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Environmental Health. It acts as a unified voice for environmental health. The coalition promotes environmental health through resource-sharing and coordinating efforts around four priority areas: climate change; environmental health workforce and education; environmental health awareness and communications; and systems and infrastructure.
The American Public Health Association champions the health of all people and all communities. It is the only organization that combines a nearly 150-year perspective, a broad-based member community, and the ability to influence policy to improve the public’s health.
During a June 2019 strategic planning session, the coalition prioritized the development of environmental health competencies,
with a focus on individual professional competencies for people working in environmental health in some capacity. During that session, it planned to:
• perform a literature review to learn about existing efforts conducted by the Council on Education for Public Health, the National Environmental Health, Science and Protection Accreditation Council, and others;
• develop a survey tool to collect information from early-career professionals and employers about the kinds of environmental health skills and knowledge they’ve gained and how (e.g., what was good, what could be better); and
• write a report and peer-reviewed publication, as well as share recommendations with environmental health programs.
This document represents the results of the literature review.
This project is supported by cooperative agreement U38OT000294 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Public Health Association. The contents of this document are solely the responsibility of the Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or APHA.
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