Media contacts

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• Statements from CDPHE leaders
• Department stances on public policy 

• Air quality data
• Asbestos
• Air emissions from business and industry
• Chlorofluorocarbons
• Climate change
• Forecasting and monitoring
• Indoor air quality
• Indoor and outdoor burning
• Lead
• Motor vehicle emissions
• Ozone

• Vital records and statistics: birth, death, fetal death, abortion, marriage, divorce
• Medical aid in dying
• Suicide statsitics
• Drug overdose statistics
• Birth defects, muscular dystrophy, autism
• Colorado Central Cancer Registry
• GIS data
• Health surveys and statistics

• Medical marijuana registration
• Medical marijuana program
• Medical marijuana data and statistics

• Animal-related diseases (rabies, West Nile virus, tick-borne, etc.)
• Bloodborne diseases
• Environmental epidemiology
• Emerging infections
• Foodborne illness
• Healthcare-associated infections
• Immunizations
• Marijuana health effects
• Marijuana Research Grant Program
• Occupational health
• Oil and gas health effects
• Respiratory diseases
• Sexually transmitted infections and HIV
• Toxicology
• Vaccine-preventable diseases
• Viral hepatitis
• Waterborne illness

• Active shooter and mass shooting incidents
• Chemical terrorism
• Disaster behavioral health
• Hospital preparedness
• Pandemic influenza
• Wildfire preparedness and recovery

1. Food, drug and cosmetic product recalls
2. Food safety and regulations, including restaurants, grocery stores, mobile food trucks (“retail food”)
3. Manufactured food operations (breweries, bakeries, distilleries, food warehouses)
4. Milk plants and dairy farms
5. Industrial hemp (only in food products)
6. Sustainability programs

• Recycling grants and rebates
• Medication Take-Back Program
• Environmental Leadership Program 
• Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs)

 

• Livestock feeding operations
• Child care and school safety/sanitation
• Cottage foods (making food at home to sell)

• Waste management and recycling
• Environmental cleanup
• Superfund sites
• Radiation management
• Permits, certifications, registrations and licenses
• Radon
• Federal facilities
• Brownfields grants and loans

• Colorado Equity Action Guide
• Health Disparities Grant Program
• Health Equity Commission

• Emergency medical services and emergency medical responders
• Health facilities inspections and complaints
• Hospital trauma level designations
• Occurrence reporting
• Trauma services

• Evidential breath alcohol testing
• Food and milk testing
• Inspection of marijuana testing facilities
• Laboratory certification
• Newborn blood spot screening
• Serology: communicable diseases, rabies
• Water testing
• Marijuana testing facility inspections

• Colorado Health Assessment and Planning System
• Coordination with local public health agencies
• Public health accreditation in Colorado

• Breastfeeding
• Cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
• Health care workforce, Primary Care Office
• Family planning, Title X
• Maternal and child health
• Marijuana (retail, not medical. For medical see Medical Marijuana Registry communications number 303-692-2184)
• Nutrition, obesity, healthy eating, active living (HEAL)
• Opioids and prescription drugs
• Oral health
• Paid family leave
• School-based health centers
• Suicide (including mental health and gun safety)
• Vaping, tobacco
• Water fluoridation
• WIC

• Clean water: rivers/streams and lakes, swim beaches
• Drinking water
• Emergency response and spills in relation to water
• Fish consumption