Environmental Health Policy

The Session Long Project (SLP) for this course entails development of a series of position papers (one page) on the topics introduced in each module. After reading and reviewing the required materials for the modules, draft a position paper informed by what you learned from this background information.

For this initial SLP assignment, your position paper should address the environmental justice implications of clean water.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Length: One page, single-spaced.

Your work will be evaluated based on the grading rubric criteria. Please review this rubric before you begin working on the assignment

Required Reading

Bhattacharya, D. (2013). Chapter 7: Clean water legislation and mosquito control. In Public health policy: Issues, theories, and advocacy. (pp. 201–212). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Flint water crisis. (2016). Congressional Digest, 95(3), 10.

Greenberg, M. R. (2014). Delivering fresh water: Critical infrastructure, environmental injustice, and Flint, Michigan. American Journal of Public Health, 106(8), 1358–1360.

Rubenfire, A. (2016, February 4). Flint hospital, state hit with $100m lawsuit over Legionnaires’ outbreak. Modern Healthcare. Retrieved from http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160204/N…

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Summary of the Clean Water Act. Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean…

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/sdwa

Xavier University Library. (2014). How to write a position paper. Retrieved from http://www.xavier.edu/library/students/documents/p…