Environmental Health Watch

We’re hiring.

Environmental Health Watch is looking for a Healthy People and Healthy Communities Program Coordinator to support community-based health initiatives, outreach, organizing, and relationship building across Cleveland neighborhoods.

We’re looking for someone who is:
• Organized and community-centered
• A strong communicator and facilitator
• Passionate about environmental justice and public health
• Ready to support real community impact work

📍 Cleveland, Ohio
🕒 Full-time

Apply here:
Indeed Job Posting https://www.indeed.com/job/healthy-people-and-healthy-communities-program-coordinator-b74107bc4d832063

In 2015, EHW convened the Cleveland Health Department, Hispanic Alliance, Spanish American Committee, MetroHealth, Strategic Solutions Partners, and community leaders in Cleveland to ask a question that still drives our work: what does it actually take to make homes safe and keep people healthy?

That partnership became Engaging the Community in New Approaches to Healthy Housing, Build Health 1.0 and it produced real results. A case study. A model for cross-sector collaboration. And community leaders like Councilman Kris Harsh, who was part of that early work and went on to serve on Cleveland City Council.

Build Health 2.0 deepened the work. We partnered with the Cleveland Department of Health and Building and Housing, CWRU Poverty Center, University Hospital, MetroHealth, and Global Health Metrics to develop the Cleveland.Housing.Health app giving residents direct access to lead certification and violation data for their properties.

Now we're in our third round of Build Health 4.0 funding. The only city to reach that milestone. This time the focus is food justice in partnership with the Central Kinsman Wellness Collective.

Forty-five years of this work. 10 years with Build Health. The partnerships change shape, but the foundation holds.

Environmental Health Watch has been awarded both the Build Health and Kresge Foundation grants for a second time an unusual distinction that reflects over a decade of sustained community health work in Cleveland.

The Build Health funding is now focused on food justice connecting the systems that shape what communities eat to the systems that shape where they live. The Kresge grant supports healthy home electrification making homes safer and more energy efficient through upgrades like replacing gas stoves, improving air sealing, and modernizing electrical systems.

Electrification, in plain terms, means transitioning homes from gas-powered systems to electric ones reducing indoor air pollution and lowering energy costs. For EHW, it's the next chapter of the same healthy homes work we've been doing since 1980.

Two national funders. Two parallel tracks. One integrated approach to community health.