Key points
Health departments provide important public health services including vector control. Environmental health professionals are on the frontline of helping individuals, institutions, and communities reduce threats from mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors. Find resources to improve the performance and quality of the services your program offers.
Resources for environmental health
Integrated pest management
What Is Integrated Pest Management?
Vector control
Vector Control for Environmental Health Professionals (VCEHP) Training
The following training programs also have modules on vector control:
Rodent control
Controlling Wild Rodent Infestations
Ticks and mosquitoes
Stormwater Management and Vector Breeding Habits
Practice
More federal resources
: Review our historical tool for teaching animal identification to personnel without special training in taxonomy.
Bed Bugs
- About Bed Bugs (ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø)
- (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
- (Federal Bed Bug Workgroup)
Other insects and spiders
- Fleas (ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø)
- Mosquitoes (ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø)
- Continuation of Mosquito Surveillance and Control During Public Health Emergencies and Natural Disasters
- Ticks (ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø)
Publications
Access environmental health publications on vector control.
Bonnefoy X, Kampen H, Sweeney K. Copenhagen: World Health Organization; 2008. (Sarisky J)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006 [Internet publication].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006 [Internet republication].
Connelly CR, Gerding JA, Jennings SM, Ruiz A, Barrera R, Partridge S, et al. Continuation of mosquito surveillance and control during public health emergencies and natural disasters. MMWR. 2020;69:938-40.
Drexler N, Miller M, Gerding J, Todd S, Adams L, Dahlgren FS, et al. . PLoS One. 2014;9(12):e112368. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0112368.
Gerding J, Kirshy M, Moran JW, Bialek R, Lamers V, Sarisky J. Environ Health Insights. 2016;7(10):113-8.
Hall S, Gridley-Smith C, Chang A, Ullman A. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2020;82(8):38-40.
Ruiz A, Gerding J, Cruz M, Laco J, Funk R. . J Am Mosquito Control Assoc. 2020;36(2S):78-81.
Ruiz A, Vanover C, Parale A, Gerding J. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2018;80(8):36–8.
Vanover C, Ruiz A. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2019;81(7):36-8.