Environmental public health tracking is the ongoing collection,
integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data
from environmental hazard monitoring, and from human exposure
and health effects surveillance. CDC is currently leading the
initiative to build a National Environmental Public Health
Tracking Network. The Tracking Network integrates data from
these three components into a network of standardized electronic
data that will provide valid scientific information on
environmental exposures and adverse health conditions as well as
the possible spatial and temporal relations between them.
Developing a sustainable standards-based national network is an
iterative process that will enable direct electronic data
reporting and linkage within and across health effects,
exposure, and hazard data and will interoperate with other
environmental public health systems. The Technical Network
Implementation Plan (TNIP) is the road map used by technical and
scientific staff in the Tracking Program to guid