Tulane’s environmental public health tracking team uses an applied approach to conduct the research needed to provide practitioners with the methods and skills to implement an EPHT network in their states or localities, and then to partner with states/localities to conduct research to answer community environmental concerns. The research focus is conceptualized to include three areas:

• Research and development of a technical framework for a distributed data network that provides access to data, the characterization and standardization of data, and development of algorithms for linking data and analyzing trends.

• Research using hazard, exposure, and health outcome databases to describe links between environment and health including hierarchical data analysis and ecological and analytical epidemiological studies.

• Development and evaluation of communication strategies to disseminate information and training modules to enhance skills of practitioners to implement the tracking system.

Fran Mather, PhD – Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Information Systems

Shahed Iqbal, MPH - Research Analyst

Elizabeth Langlois, MSPH - Research Scientist / Project Manager

Felicia Rabito, PhD - Epidemiologist

Chuck Shorter, MPH- Field Epidemiologist