Please also refer to the Federal Agencies page for many more multi-topic resources.

• American Lung Association: English | Español
  This site contains information on various lung diseases and their causes including asthma, allergies, cancer, radon, carbon monoxide, asbestos, and many more.

• American Public Health Association
  Access the American Journal of Public Health and other publications, state health associations, fact sheets, and health action alerts from this site.

• Building Science
  This site is home to building technology consultants that focus on preventing and resolving building design, construction, and operation problems by addressing issues including moisture dynamics and indoor air quality.

- See in particular the series of publications titled, Healthy and Affordable Housing: Practical Recommendations for Building, Renovating, and Maintaining Housing, including:
• Read This Before You Design, Build or Renovate
• Read This Before You Move In
• Read This Before You Turn Over a Unit
• Read This Before You Ventilate

• Center for Construction Research and Training
  • Electronic Library of Occupational Safety and Health: English | Español
    eLCOSH is intended to provide accurate, user-friendly information about safety and health for construction workers from a wide range of sources worldwide.

• Children’s Environmental Health Network
  This site provides information about children's environmental health and links to more resources.

• Community Environmental Health Resource Center (CEHRC)
  CEHRC, a project of the Alliance, was a resource to grassroots groups working for social justice in low-income communities around the country. CEHRC helped community-based organizations develop their capacity to document environmental health hazards in substandard housing and to pursue effective organizing and advocacy strategies for corrective and preventive action through access to hazard assessment tools and training in their use, technical assistance, strategy advice, mechanisms for peer to peer support, and sub-grants.

• Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health
  The Community Toolbox provides small grants and technical assistance to build the organizational capacity and sustainability of community-based organizations working to eliminate environmental health threats in communities at highest risk.

• Environmental Health Watch
  Providing information, assistance, and advocacy tools to protect and sustain human health and the health of the environment, EHW actively addresses numerous issues, including lead, asthma triggers, radon, pesticides, asbestos and conducting moisture audits.

• Health House
  Created by the American Lung Association of Minnesota, the Health House project is a national education program to raise the standards for better indoor environments.

• Healthy Child Healthy World
  Healthy Child Healthy World is a national non-profit organization that educates the public, specifically parents and caregivers, about environmental toxins that affect children’s health. Take a walk through a virtual home to find typical household dangers. Statistics and action sections are helpful.

• Healthy Homes Curriculum for Older Americans
  The Alliance, Environmental Health Watch and Cleveland Tenants Organization developed a curriculum intended to help healthy homes advocates, practitioners, and others educate older Americans about indoor environmental health, especially as it impacts respiratory health. This curriculum is designed for ease of use and to allow older Americans to in turn educate their peers about such issues as mold and moisture, pests and pesticides, and maintaining lead-safe homes for those seniors with young grandchildren.

• Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes
  A joint project of the US EPA, the University of Montana's Extension Service, and the USDA's Cooperative Extension Service, this site contains extensive information about lead poisoning and other healthy homes issues, including more than a dozen instruction modules on various hazards.
  • In general, many of the programs in the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) can provide useful information.
    
    
• Healthy Schools Network
  This site contains resources about protecting children's environmental health at school.

• Home*A*Syst
  A joint project of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the University of Wisconsin, Home*A*Syst provides healthy homes information and tools, aides for locating resources specific to each state, links to other useful healthy homes resources, and archived issues of their online newsletter, The Threshold.

• National Center for Healthy Housing
  The National Center for Healthy Housing evaluates and validates cost-effective methods to protect children from residential environmental hazards while preserving the supply of affordable housing.

• Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment
  This site contains extensive resources on a variety of projects being carried out by about 175 member organizations working on children's environmental health issues.

• Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU)
  The PEHSU program was developed in 1998 by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics to be a national resource for pediatricians, other health care providers, federal staff, and the general public. The PEHSU program focuses on medical education and training, telephone consultation, and clinical specialty referral for children who may have been exposed to environmental hazards. The PEHSU website contains contact information and links to the eleven PEHSUs currently operating across the United States.

• Su Familia (Your Family): 1-866-SU FAMILIA or 1-866-783-2645
  The National Alliance for Hispanic Health sponsors this helpline to offer Hispanic consumers free, reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English and help navigate callers through the health system

• Tox Town
  A pilot project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, Tox Town was launched in October 2002 to graphically provide information about toxic hazards in “Anytown,” USA. Hazard information is provided by both the specific environment (i.e. homes, schools, etc.) as well as the specific chemical (i.e. lead, radon, asbestos, etc.).

• Weatherization Plus Health
  Weatherization Plus Health is a initiative to provide weatherization programs with the tools they need to address asthma triggers (e.g., moisture/mold, pests, allergens), lead hazards, and carbon monoxide when they are in a home. Weatherization Plus Health was developed by a collaborative effort among weatherization, health, and environmental experts.