Grant Award: 2002 - 2006

Description

St. Louis City Demolition

A collaborative project between Missouri Environmental Public Health Tracking and the Center for Applied Environmental Public Health at Tulane University that examined the relationship between demolition of housing units constructed prior to 1978 and blood lead levels in children living in the vicinity of the demolition site.

St. Francois County

Missouri EPHT team assists in the health risk assessment of using lead tailings as agricultural lime. Leads to EPA ruling banning its use.

Local Environmental Public Health Initiative

Collaborative effort between the Missouri Office of Administration’s GIS Unit and the Environmental Public Health Tracking team to build geospatial capacity at the local level.

Environmental Public Health Mapper

Collaborative effort between Missouri Environmental Public Health Tracking, the Missouri Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance Program (HSEES), and the Center for Agricultural, Resource, and Environmental Systems (CARES).  It provides a dynamic approach for presenting Missouri’s environmental public health data.

Incidents of Mines, Occurrences and Prospects (IMOP)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services are cooperating in a project to update the Incidents of Mines, Occurrences, and Prospects (IMOP) Database.

Herculaneum

A collaborative project between the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources that resulted in the purchase by the Doe Run Company of 160 houses in Herculaneum, Missouri

Relative Pocket of Need (RPoN)

Modular formula developed by the Missouri Environmental Public Health Tracking team to calculate need for a wide variety of Public Health concerns.

Mercury in Fish Interstate Network (FIN)

Collaboration between Tulane University Academic Partner of Excellence and 6 states, including Missouri. The project explored the feasibility of establishing a Mercury in Fish Interstate Network (Mercury FIN). The goal of the network was to demonstrate and implement the EPHT framework using fish tissue data.