Public Health Assessment Primers Landing Page

The following primers are part of the online Public Health Assessment Training modules. They explain important topics of the ATSDR’s public health evaluation. ATSDR conducts public health evaluations to determine if communities’ health has been impacted by exposure to site-related contaminants.

Click on the sections below to learn when and how to conduct an exposure investigation; how to define exposure units, how to estimate exposure point concentrations, and when and how to conduct a toxicological evaluation as part of ATSDR public health assessment process.