Environmental Health Committee

The Environmental Health Committee (EHC) advises and influences public health and environmental laboratories about ongoing and emerging chemical, environmental and public health threats that impact human health. Key activities include:

1. Responding to new and ongoing laboratory issues 
2. Developing policy 
3. Increasing awareness of environmental and public health conditions 
4. Providing education within and external to the laboratory community  
5. Coordinating response to existing and proposed legislation. 

• Identify barriers to effectively engage all response partners among the LRN-C this year; aim to remove barriers and identify collaborations between LRN B&C and between clinical and environmental programs during the next two years
• Support Peer-to-peer Exchange Programs (Chemical Threat, Biomonitoring, Overdose Biosurveillance and Radiochemistry)
• Develop LRN-C outreach resources
• Collect and share LRN-C method parameters
• Monitor emerging threats

• Publishing LRN-C Outreach for First Responders Workbook and LRN-C Communications Tracking template document
• Creating and launching a workgroup to implement June 2026 APHL Biomonitoring Position Statement

The EHC Committee was instrumental in producing the materials below; within the Knowledge Retention Toolkit, they developed the template for .

The EHC Committee has members representing state APHL member laboratories.