Jim Vannoy

Program Manager

Environmental Health Program

Idaho Division of Public Health

Established in 2009, ASTHO’s Tracking Fellowship Program has served as a stepping stone to non-funded sites to further their efforts in becoming better prepared to join the Network.

Opportunities: ◦ Peer-to-Peer examination of

established programs

Conduct site visits at an assigned CDC mentoring site

Receive guidance on developing a project that would advance tracking in their state or city

◦ Attend a National Tracking Workshop

◦ Build peer networks and collaborations

CDC EPHT State Grantees

ASTHO Tracking Fellows

D.C.

New York City

Cincinnati

ASTHO Tracking Fellows:

◦ 2009: *LA, MI, DC

◦ 2010: NC, GA, KY, DE, WV

◦ 2011: AZ, IN, OH, VA, and Cincinnati

◦ 2012: AL, Fairfax County, ID, NE, OK

Idaho lacks an EPHT Program

Access to limited health data

Availability of environmental data ◦ Air quality data

◦ Water quality data

Site visit

National EPHT workshop Conduct a pilot project

Awareness

Final Report

Next Steps

Washington State, Olympia–April 2012 ◦ Visit Washington Department of Heath

Washington’s EPHT staff provided various presentations that included: ◦ EPHT Information Technology ◦ Communications Development and

Implementation ◦ Web Portal Demonstration ◦ Indicator Development and Data

Manipulation and Analysis ◦ Lead Program Overview

Denver–May 2012

Activities included plenary sessions, topic discussions, ASTHO fellowship recipients meeting, workgroup meetings and state success story projects.

Workgroups: content, program management & outreach, standards & network development and geospatial.

Content workgroup topics: hospitalization, biomonitoring, water, climate change, pesticides, and vital statistics.

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention in Ada County, ID: April-May 2012:

Use US Census Bureau, Ada County Tax Assessor data and GIS technology to create a lead risk map.

Share this information with Medicaid and Health Districts so they can implement more targeted lead poisoning prevention and education programs.

Characteristics of Ada County Housing Stock

The Result

Presentation at the 2012 Spring Division of Public Health’s Epidemiology Conference, Boise, Idaho

Poster presentation at Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Conference in Omaha, Nebraska.

Submitted to ASTHO in May 2012

Replicate the pilot project in other populous counties in Idaho.

Assess the feasibility of EPHT in Idaho.

Robert Graff Norka Paden Joe Pollard