Strengthening environmental health surveillance in low- and middle-income countries

Abstract

We will describe work to develop and implement actionable frameworks for measuring progress of actions to promote children’s environmental health. Active health sector engagement to ensure the use of local data to inform policies and implementation will be described to underscore the value of ensuring sustained investments in surveillance, rather than one-off studies, to direct limited health resources. Applied examples will include 1) integrating and enhancing routinely collected data to quantify the impact of clean air policies in Indonesia and 2) targeting surveillance efforts to identify populations most at risk for increased blood levels in India and the Philippines.