Maryland Department of Health
Environmental Health

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​​National Environmental Public Health Tracking Week

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Environmental Public Health Tracking Awareness Week 2024

The Maryland Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program is celebrating Environmental Public Health Tracking Awareness Week, July 8 - 12, 2024! 

Explore the topics below and follow #DataforAction and #TAW2024 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 2024.

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 ​​The Maryland Tracking program brings together data on air quality, climate and health, drinking water, asthma, cancer, childhood lead poisoning, and other health concerns that matter to Maryland’s communities in a public-facing online data portal. Portal users can learn about the importance of different health topics, how common those issues are in Maryland, which Marylanders are experiencing disparities, and what programs the health department provides to support Marylanders experiencing those health concerns. The tracking portal provides Marylanders with 24/7 access to data that is interactive, easily accessible, and formatted to work well with mobile devices for busy Marylanders on the go. Please visit https://maps.health.maryland.gov/ephtportal/ to explore all the data that Maryland tracking has to offer!​​
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Maryland's Environmental Public Health Tracking (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. The MD EPHT team partnered with the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) and used childhood lead testing data to assess the impacts of lead testing-related policies, COVID-19, and the national changes in the blood lead reference value (BLRV) on the state's testing rates in 2010 through 2020. Visit the Lead Poisoning Prevention page to read the report and learn more about lead poisoning in Maryland. For more information on EPHT data in action and other success stories, visit the CDC's National EPHT website.

Lung cancer prevention through radon testing and tobacco prevention is one of the priority areas identified in Maryland’s 2021-2025 Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan. Maryland’s Environmental Public Health Tracking (MD EPHT) team works closely with the Maryland Center for Cancer Prevention and Control, the Maryland Tobacco Control Program, and the Maryland Department of the Environment’s (MDE) radon program to prevent lung cancer by providing communities with local radon data, educational resources, and discounted radon test kits. Keep an eye out for Portal updates as we work to add cancer-related topics and a new display featuring Maryland lung cancer data with smoking status.