CHEC Services
CHEC is a university-based center for environmental health; research; translation; outreach; policy analysis; project and program evaluation; and facilitation of institutional, governmental and community visioning and prioritization processes. We offer these services to:
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CHEC will work with non-profit; non-governmental agencies; communities; and other university collaborators to secure funding in the form of grants for specific environmental health projects. CHEC understands the inter-relationships and chains and webs of causation of socio-economic, cultural, individual behavioral, legal and policy, and geographical factors and variables with ultimate ecological and environmental health outcomes. We, thus, take a holistic approach to rationalize and prioritize interventions that will directly affect all factors that may be involved in an ecological and/or environmental health issue or endpoint. CHEC can draw upon academic and institutional resources within all departments of the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH), as well as collaborators in the University of Pittsburgh’s, Schools of Law and Medicine, and the Departments of History, Geology and Microbiology to form teams that can visualize, understand and prioritize all aspects of ecological and environmental health issues.
CHEC also offers its services to the for-profit sector. Examples of projects for businesses led by CHEC investigators include:
- Environmental health hazard & risk assessments of industrial plant & waste sites
- Training of executives, plant managers & occupational & environmental health personnel in specific occupational & environmental problems, issues & regulations
CHEC Services (Files in PDF Format):
- Environmental Exposure Assessment & Evaluation - Download infoģ
- Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) into ecological & environment health issues & associated public health, economic, social & behavioral problems - Download info»
- Facilitation of Visualization and Prioritization Exercises to understand the chain & webs of causation of environmental health issues.
- Design of Interventions to improve environmental health outcomes
- Program Evaluation, both qualitative & quantitative, to assure efficacy & cost effectiveness of environmental / ecological health interventions - Download infoģ
- Translation of basic environmental & public health science for diverse professional audiences, leading to real-life applications - Download infoģ
- Outreach to communities of geography & interest, concerning specific environmental health Issues
- Environmental Health Policy Formulation & Analysis
