{"id":1823,"date":"2022-09-27T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2025-01-22T19:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:38:20","slug":"the-environmental-justice-index-ranking-cumulative-health-impacts","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/the-environmental-justice-index-ranking-cumulative-health-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environmental Justice Index: Ranking Cumulative Health Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1827 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/09\/envjust-e1664293623973.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"118\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The American Public Health Association and Center for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s\u00a0 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) will be holding a webinar and demonstration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atsdr.cdc.gov\/placeandhealth\/eji\/index.html\">Environmental Justice Index (EJI).<\/a> \u00a0The EJI ranks census tract data on the cumulative impacts of environmental injustice on health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Environmental Justice Index: Ranking Cumulative Health Impacts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday, October 12th,\u00a02:00 &#8211; 3:00 PM ET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attending the webinar will help you use the EJI to identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of environmental burdens, educate and inform the public about their opportunities and prioritize action for frontline communities.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sharunda Buchanan, M.S. Ph.D., Director, Office of Priority Projects, Innovation and Environmental Justice, CDC<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin McKenzie, M.S., Geospatial Epidemiologist; Coordinator of the Environmental Justice Index, ATSDR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be time for Q&amp;A at the end of the webinar.\u00a0 This webinar is open to members and non-members alike.\u00a0 The webinar will be recorded and available after the event. Closed captioning is provided<\/p>\n<p>To register, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/apha.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_v6U7ZqHCTwaqB4mfMDt1rA\">APHA registration page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Public Health Association and Center for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s\u00a0 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) will be holding a webinar and demonstration of the Environmental Justice Index (EJI). \u00a0The EJI ranks census tract data on the cumulative impacts of environmental injustice on health. &nbsp; Environmental Justice Index: Ranking Cumulative Health&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/the-environmental-justice-index-ranking-cumulative-health-impacts\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-blog","category-education-and-outreach","category-public-health"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}