Environmental Public Health Tracking: Taking Action With Data

The Wisconsin Tracking program's Environmental Health Data Dashboards and County Environmental Health Profiles put data right at your fingertips. But what do you do after you review your data?

Click the links below to find strategies for addressing environmental health topics.

Keep in mind that your local health department doesn't need to do all the work here. Coordinating with allies in your public health system to develop an array of interventions will help you achieve more.

Gather more ideas and connect with communities doing similar work by reviewing the success stories on our resources page.

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Looking for more strategies? Check out What Works for Health, the Community Guide, the National Institutes of Health, and the Rural Health Information Hub.

Ideas for taking action

The links below offer ideas anyone can use to improve Wisconsin's environmental health. These are for individuals, families, communities, organizations, and policymakers. To request ideas for a new topic, email our team at dhstracking@wisconsin.gov.

Taking Action with Data mini-grants

Each year, Wisconsin Tracking offers mini-grants to local and tribal health departments to work on environmental health projects in their communities. Congratulations to our 2024-5 mini-grantees: Chippewa, Greendale, Lafayette, Manitowoc, Monroe, Taylor, and Rock counties!

View our current mini-grantees' projects, P-01203a (PDF)

See all of the mini-grants Wisconsin Tracking has funded, P-01203 (PDF)