*PH 7325 (Steward) - Urban Health Seminar: Built Environment

The Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning is committed to the creation of resources, programs, and policies to prevent childhood lead poisoning and home-based environmental health hazards.

From CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative, part of the National Center for Environmental Health's Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services.

GHHI is a partnership between the federal government, national and local philanthropy, the National Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning and local partners in the 15 GHHI project sites - 13 cities, including Atlanta, and two Native American Tribes.

Read more about Atlanta's involvement here:

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/states/georgia/news/HUDNo.2011-01-27

Relates to the interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities to help improve access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide.

CDC's NCEH plans, directs, and coordinates a national program to maintain and improve the health of the American people by promoting a healthy environment and by preventing premature death and avoidable illness and disability caused by non-infectious, non-occupational environmental and related factors.

Atlanta's own Southface promotes comfortable, energy-, water-, and resource-efficient homes, workplaces and communities throughout the Southeast.

Information on chemical and environmental concerns is from the TOXNET and MedlinePlus resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), as well as other authoritative sources.