📘 Course Connection:

This PHE 540 project guides students through the strategic planning process for addressing an environmental chemical hazard. The template supports evaluation of interventions, risk communication, systems-level comparison, and the integration of environmental justice principles.

🎯 Purpose of the Strategic Planning Template:

This project helps you:

• Compare national and international environmental health strategies
• Assess intervention feasibility using tools like a Needs & Capacity Matrix
• Apply environmental justice principles to strategy design
• Analyze risk management and communication based on P.E.S.T.L.E. and equity factors

🌿 Strategic planning in environmental health ensures targeted, feasible, and equitable interventions that reduce chemical hazard risks.

📋 Template Components:

📌 1.0 – Milestone Three

1.1 Comparison of strategy effectiveness across:

• National and international environmental systems
• Public health, healthcare, and regulatory structures

1.2 Intervention Planning Tools

• 1.2.1 Needs and Capacity Matrix: Identifies what communities need and what they have
• 1.2.2 Assets Map: Visual summary of local strengths (infrastructure, institutions, etc.)

📌 2.0 – Final Project

2.1 Analysis of Intervention Strategies

• Describe two proposed strategies for addressing the chemical hazard
• Justify your approach using a public health theory, model, or framework
• Explain how each intervention acts as a proactive solution

2.2 Risk Management and Communication Approaches

• Analyze how Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental (P.E.S.T.L.E.) factors affect both implementation and communication
• Apply environmental justice principles to strategy design:
  • Fair Treatment
  • Meaningful Involvement