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Environmental Health Policy Committee

The Committee provides unique, state/territorial-based expertise and leadership for environmental public health policy and practice in the areas of the built, natural, and synthetic environments. The Committee actively pursues strengthening the infrastructure and capacity and capabilities of state and territorial health agency-based environmental health programs, targeting surveillance strategies and developing the workforce, in close collaboration with the State Environmental Health Directors Peer Group, among other issues.

Elke Shaw-Tulloch
Elke Shaw-Tulloch
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare

Chair

Elke Shaw -Tulloch has an undergraduate degree in environmental health with a biology minor and a Master of Health Science degree, with an environmental health emphasis, from Boise State University. Shaw -Tulloch began working for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare as a health education specialist in 1996. She was promoted to manager of the Radiation Health Effects Program (1998) and then became manager of the Environmental Health Education and Assessment Program (1998 -2001). In 2001, Shaw -Tulloch was hired as bureau chief for environmental health and safety, which evolved under her leadership to become the Bureau of Community and Environmental Health in 2003. She began her current position as administrator of the division of public health on Sept. 2, 2012. The Division of Health provides services ranging from immunizations, testing for communicable diseases, regulating food safety, certifying emergency medical personnel, vital record administration, and compilation of health statistics to bioterrorism preparedness. The division’s programs and services actively promote healthy lifestyles and prevention activities, while monitoring and intervening in disease transmission and health risks as a safeguard for Idaho citizens .