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​​National Environmental Public Health Tracking Week

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Environmental Public Health Tracking Awareness Week 2026​

The Maryland Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program is celebrating Environmental Public Health Tracking Awareness Week, July 6 - 10, 2026! 

Explore the topics below and follow #BeyondData and #TrackingInnovation​ for more information about how you can use the Maryland Environmental and Health Data Portal - your gateway to environmental and health data resources. You can work with MD EPHT data, tools, resources, and partnerships to assess and evaluate a variety of environment and health topics in Mar​​yland. ​

MD EPHT is supported with a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Tracking program, (CDC-RFA-EH17-1702). Click he​re ​to see what CDC is doing for National Tracking Week 2026.

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Innovation is a keystone of the Maryland Environmental Public Health Tracking (MD EPHT) Program. MD EPHT provides a variety of publicly available resources that contribute to a more complete picture of important environmental health issues and inform public health actions. The MD EPHT Data Portal is a publicly available tool that can be used to view maps of various environmental public health topics in Maryland, including asthma, COPD, climate change, and heart attack. Keep an eye out for Portal updates as we work to add more topics including radon and suicide​.
​The MD EPHT data portal includes maps of county and census tract-level rates of all cause cancer (a measure of all malignant cancers in the Maryland Cancer Registry), some individual cancers (lung, prostate, breast), asthma, and blood lead levels in children Not sure what your census tract number is? The “Search here…” toolbar on each map makes it easy to locate the address you are interested in. Using this feature will place a pin on the map for each address searched. These local level displays have helped communities and agencies work together to address community concerns with data-informed responses and solutions.



The MD EPHT team works with partners to use environmental and health data to evaluate public health processes and support recommendations for improving local health initiatives. Last year, the MD EPHT team partnered with the Maryland Department of Health's Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the Center for Injury and Violence Prevention (CIVP) to develop two new health topics for the portal:  Birth Outcomes and Falls. Birth Outcomes includes county-, state-, and national-level data, stratified by race and ethnicity, on outcomes such as infant mortality, preterm birth, low birthweight. Falls includes county- and state-level emergency department visits, hospitalization, mortality, and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data on fall injuries, fall-related hip fractures, and work-related falls. Falls also examines the data by key risk factors including age, chronic conditions, and disabilities.