Outreach provides a variety of services for the purpose of professional development. Goals for these courses are to raise awareness of the connections between environmental quality and human health, to develop knowledge about specific environmental health issues, especially those of local interest, and to expand participant interest in environmental health research.

As such they increase the knowledge and understanding about environmental health among secondary school teachers, nurses, pharmacy students, and environmental quality professionals.

• The environmental quality professionals in the City of Tucson have requested environmental health training from the COEC during the spring of 2007.
• The COEC Summer Teacher Institute will continue to provide current science and lessons based from the existing curriculum.
• Following the protocol developed by Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin the COEC will conduct environmental health workshops for pediatric and school nurses.
• The pharmacy student course uses environmental health as a context for promoting understanding of health literacy, using a service learning approach.