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Public Health and Health Care Partner Workshop: Summary Report
Citation:
Deener, K., W. Cascio, C. Baghdikian, A. Champlin, M. Christian, H. Harmon, B. Reed, B. Stearns, S. Taft, K. Widener, AND J. Zambrana. Public Health and Health Care Partner Workshop: Summary Report. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-21/081, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
This report summarizes the discussions and findings from a summer 2020 Public Health and Health Care Partner Workshop, which aimed to identify cross-disciplinary areas of environmental health concern and opportunities to address those concerns. The information from this workshop can help EPA-ORD inform research plans and outreach strategies and may lead to further, more refined cross-disciplinary and cross-organization discussions, research, and action around the specific environmental health topics of mutual concern.
Description:
From August 31 – September 2, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development (EPA-ORD) held a virtual workshop with public health, health care, and health care system practitioners to discuss environmental health priorities within their fields and to their organizational members and to build relationships for future dialogue and collaboration on specific topics. Using a mind mapping exercise, workshop participants identified six environmental areas of concern: built environment; climate change; environmental justice and equity; natural environment; occupational environment; and research, data, and implementation. Conversations during the workshop around the mind mapping results led to a greater understanding of how environmental health concerns are intensified during public health crises (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) and existing cross-cutting environmental health issues that impact each area concern [which include lead (Pb), environmental justice and equity, children’s health, mental health, and community design]. Opportunities were also identified for cross-sector and cross-disciplinary communication, engagement, and collaboration (such as establishing partnerships in non-emergency times to help weather public health crises, training and workforce development, information sharing, and communication and risk communication). The information from this workshop can help EPA-ORD inform research plans and outreach strategies and may lead to further, more refined cross-disciplinary and cross-organization discussions, research, and action around the specific environmental health topics of mutual concern.
URLs/Downloads:
Public Health and Health Care Partner Workshop Summary Report Summer 2020 (PDF, 24 pp, 8963 KB, about PDF)https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2021-07/final_phhc-summary-report_6.10.2021.pdf