Mobilizing data to improve public health

Tracking California is a program of the Public Health Institute, in partnership with the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program.

We work to make environmental and health data and information publicly-available, accessible and useful to a variety of stakeholders including communities, governments, academia, and private partners.

We work in partnership with communities on a variety of activities, including research, data dissemination, and trainings. We aim to integrate community knowledge, experiences, and expertise into our work, while also supporting community capacity-building.

We strive to engage in equitable, community-led collaborations where we can work together to meaningfully advance environmental justice and health equity.

Tracking California works on a variety of environmental and public health topics. Explore information, projects, publications, and resources by topic.

We are a mix of health educators, data analysts, communication and policy experts, and research scientists, who work together using our breadth of skills and depth of knowledge to mobilize data for public health.

We use GIS and analysis to understand and visualize trends in data and utilize storytelling and interviews to explore individual and community level impacts. We create maps, infographics, storymaps, and videos, alongside published papers and conference papers to share our work.