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?
Select from the following links 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.
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 following links 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.
- Air quality, P-01795F (PDF)
- Asthma, P-01795A (PDF)
- Cancer (melanoma) P-01795D (PDF)
- Carbon monoxide, P-01795 (PDF)
- Community design, P-01795I (PDF)
- COPD, P-03271 (PDF)
- Heart attack, P-01795G (PDF)
- Heat stress, P-01795C (PDF)
- Lead poisoning, P-01795B (PDF)
- Lyme disease, P-01795E (PDF)
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 2025-26 mini-grantees:
- Bayfield County
- Brown County
- City of Cudahy
- Florence & Forest Counties
- Jefferson County
- Lincoln County
- Marinette County
- City of Milwaukee
- Pierce County
- Richland County
- Shawano & Menominee Counties
- St. Croix County
- Trempealeau County
- Waupaca County
- Winnebago County
Details about their projects will be posted soon.
See Wisconsin Tracking's previously Funded Projects, P-01203 (PDF).