The Environmental Health Coordination Program is located at the Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene, 201 West Preston Street, in Baltimore.
The program was created to assist the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene and other state and local agencies respond to environmental
health issues that involve potential human health effects. The program
is concerned with the following topics:
Health effects from chemical exposures, radiation, and infectious diseases transmitted through environmental media
Analysis of exposure and disease clusters involving possible environmental agents
Surveillance of chemical exposures including pesticides, harmful algae, and other environmental agents
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We work closely in coordination with other programs, including:
Maryland Department of the Environment (regulated programs in air, water, land, hazardous waste, radiation, lead poisoning prevention)
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (surveillance of human health effects of environmental exposures, illness reporting, coordination and response)
Maryland Department of Natural Resources (environmental monitoring of Maryland waterways, Chesapeake Bay)
Other programs related to environmental health in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene:
Food Protection and Consumer Health Services
Epidemiology and Disease Control Program (including vector-borne diseases)
Cancer Registry
Birth Defects Registry
Local environmental health programs – located in each jurisdiction
For additional information, contact us
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