Environmental Health

The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) continue to expand the New Jersey Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Network, which is part of a National EPHT Network developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 32 states, and one county.

NJDOH and NJDEP collect data on health, human exposures and environmental hazards. The New Jersey EPHT Network seeks to bring this information together.  Tracking data can be used to help understand patterns and trends in:

• Environmental hazards
• Levels of Human Exposure
• Patterns and time trends in diseases

New Jersey’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program uses the New Jersey State Health Assessment Data (NJSHAD) system to disseminate Tracking Data.  Information in NJ SHAD can be found in three forms: indicator reports, custom queries and written reports.

Data and summary statistics (indicators in NJ SHAD)

Custom queries of birth, mortality, hospitalization, and BRFSS data

Custom queries of cancer data

Custom queries of private well water quality data

The EPHT Network is designed to serve as an information resource for the public, government officials, health care providers, community organizations, and researchers.

• Confidentiality of health data
• What is metadata and why is it important?
• Glossary of Commonly-Used Terms
• Frequently asked questions
• About this project

• NJ EPHT Data Index
• NJ EPHT Metadata
• State Tracking Portals
• Healthy New Jersey 2020
• Healthy New Jersey 2030
• Consumer, Environmental and Occupational Health Service
• NJ SHAD Brochure 
• NJDEP Potential Lead Exposure Mapping Tool for Housing
• NJDEP Known Contaminated Sites (Community Relations Sites) List
• NJ Department of Transportation Highway and Transportation Safety Data
• State of New Jersey GIS Open Data
• NJ Population (metropolitan, county, municipal) Estimates (NJDoLWD) 
• New Jersey Clean Air Council
• NJ Legislative Statutes
• Health Disparity Priority Areas (NJDOH)
• County Health Rankings (RWJF)
• Directory of Local NJ Health Departments [PDF] [Search by Map]
• New Jersey Hospital Locator (NJHA, 2020)
• Environmental Justice News and Resources (NJDEP)
• Community Asset Map (NJDCA)
• Homeland Infrastructure Data
• EPA ExpoBox Toolkit
• EvaluateNJ Electric Vehicle Charging Resource
• NJ Climate Change Resource Center (Rutgers)
• HEAT.Gov (NIHHIS-NOAA)
• 500 Cities and PLACES Data Portal
• Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool
• Environmental Justice Toolkit for Lead-Based Paint Enforcement Programs (USEPA)
• ECHO Clean Air Tracking Tool (USEPA)

This website was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number 1 NUE1EH001478-01-00 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the New Jersey Department of Health's Environmental Public Health Tracking Project and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.