Holly R. Wilson, MHSE, CHESHealth Communications Specialist

Environmental Health Tracking Branch

CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program

National Center for Environmental Health

Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects

“What we are limited in knowing is if there is a link between pollution and the increases we are seeing in chronic diseases because we aren’t tracking environmental health factors.

Pew Commission Report, 2000

We need to gather the facts now. American’s have a right, and the need to know.”

Lowell Weicker, Jr.Chairman, Pew Environmental Health Commission

Laying the Foundation

Tracking Partners• State and local health departments

• National public health and environmental health professional organizations

• Universities

• Advocacy and community groups

• Other CDC Programs

• Other Federal Agencies

Implementation: 2006-2009

Building the Network

• Gathering requirements

• Setting standards

• Testing designs

• Engaging partners

• Flexibility to evolve

Expansion: 2009-present

Current Tracking Grantees

The Tracking NetworkThe Tracking Network is a system of integrated

health,exposure, and hazard information and data from avariety of national, state, and city sources.

The Tracking Network• Access to health and environmental

information

• Allows user to query data

• Provides contextual information and preventionmessages

www.cdc.gov/ephtracking

Tracking Network Demo

NETWORK CONTENT

Layers of Information

www.cdc.gov/ephtracking

Health Effects• Asthma

• Birth Defects

• Cancer

• CO Poisoning

• Childhood Lead Poisoning

• Developmental Disabilities

• Heart Attacks

• Reproductive & Birth Outcomes

Environments

• Climate Change

• Community Design

• Homes

• Outdoor Air – Health Impacts of Fine

Particles in Air

• Water

Population Data• Population

Characteristics– Demographics– Socioeconomics

• Biomonitoring: Population Exposures– National estimate only– 11 environmental

chemicals

Data Query

COMING SOON!

Coming in 2012Expanded and Updated Data & Resources

• Children’s Environmental Health

• BRFSS: Smoking data

• Additional states reporting birth defects data

• Updates to current data sets

• New communication tools

Enhanced Functionality• Enhanced mapping capabilities• Improved options for charts• Second view feature• Advanced view stratification

Coming in 2012

Secure Portal• National data repository

• Role based access

• Drag and drop report building

• Tracking toolkit

• Tracking metadata creation tool

Coming in 2012

For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333Telephone, 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov Web: www.cdc.gov

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Questions?

National Center for Environmental Health

Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects

“CDC’s Tracking Network is the most important accomplishment of the past decade.”

Thomas Burke, Ph.D.Associate Dean of Public Health Practice and Training and Professor in Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.