Sectors: Climate Change, Public Health, Green Building

Challenge:

Build an online community of environmental public health leaders—graduates from the CDC's EPHLI fellowship program—to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration on emerging topics.

Solution:

• Build, populate, and launch an interactive website for EPHLI alumni, complete with an alumni directory and topic-based discussion groups.
• Train EPHLI alumni on how to post information and respond to discussion threads on the website.
• Facilitate online discussions on how local and state public health departments can contribute to environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives.
• Launch the alumni network's first research project.

Services:

Consulting

• Project development and overall management.
• Strategic consulting on social media and network development.
• Website development and graphic design.
• Grant writing.

Applied Research

• Populate the environmental sustainability and climate change discussion group with emerging research, current events, and case studies of innovative practices.
• Support survey design and management.

Training

• Develop guidelines on how to use the interactive website.
• Provide online training (via webinars) and technical support to new website users.

Client:

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Environmental Health Services Branch

Funding:

National Environmental Health Association