Lefevre is part of a nationwide effort to improve environmental public health tracking and surveillance--an initiative that reached a major turning point in early July when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the national version of the Web-based Environmental Public Health Tracking Network.
Seeking to correct this concern, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have initiated the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network to expand on state efforts (such as California's) and create a national system to track environmental exposures and hazards.
The "building blocks" of knowledge provided by a nationwide environmental public health tracking network will enable scientists to answer many of the troubling questions we are asking today about what is making us sick.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is laying the groundwork for what is planned to become a nationwide environmental public health tracking network.
To help expand the limited national data on chronic diseases, the CDC received its first funding in 2002 for a national environmental public health tracking network.
