Engaging Health Departments in Brownfields/Land Reuse Redevelopment

What to know

  • This page has been created for health agencies to provide resources and capacity to engage in Land Reuse and Environmental Health.
  • These resources include the Engaging Health Departments in Brownfields/Land Reuse Redevelopment short videos and the Environmental Health Resources Self Learning Modules.
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For Health Agencies

Resources for health agencies:

The three videos show how state, local, and tribal health agencies can get involved with brownfields and land reuse site redevelopment. These are short examples of projects from state and local health department representatives. We hope they may inspire other health department staff to become more engaged in land reuse:

Engaging Health Departments

Engaging Health Departments in Brownfields and Land Reuse Site Redevelopment‎

These three videos highlight the ways that local health departments (LHDs) and other health agencies promote and build capacity to engage in health-focused land reuse. While larger LHDs may have the capacity to be involved in land reuse work, smaller health agencies may be overburdened and short on resources. They may be unaware of funding or ATSDR technical support that is available to them to work on land reuse issues.