Integrated Pest Management in Housing

Indoor Air Quality and Integrated Pest Management

EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs, the Office of Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, EPA Region 1 Indoor Air Program, and the Northeastern IPM Center co-sponsored a National Dialogue on Indoor Air Quality and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The session was held at EPA OPP's offices on Tuesday June 5th, 2007 from 9:30 am – 12pm. Attendance was open to EPA employees and EPA national partners for IAQ and IPM programs.

Draft Case Studies for Review

EPA is in the process of developing a series of case studies on community-based IPM (see below). These case studies are designed to convey details about:

Costs and benefits of using an IPM approach;
Challenges facing IPM program managers and how they can be addressed; and
Models for successful programs. We welcome your comments on these draft case studies.

Openings remarks: Elizabeth Cotsworth, Director Office of Radiation and Indoor Air Marty Monell, Deputy Director, Office of Pesticide Programs

Expert speakers (included below are PDF files of presentations, journal articles, case studies, brochures and related links)

Dr. John Spengler - Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, in the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, at Harvard University's School of Public Health

PDF version of presentation (PDF, 44 pp, 1.72MB)
Related Journal Articles:
- A Community-based Participatory Research Study of Multifaceted In-home Environmental Interventions for Pediatric Asthmatics in Public Housing (PDF, 13 pp, 212KB)
- Pesticide Loadings of Select Organophosphate and Pyrethroid Pesticides in Urban Public Housing (PDF, 8 pp, 168KB)
- Determinants of Allergen Concentrations in Apartments of Asthmatic Children Living in Public Housing (PDF, 13 pp, 235KB)
- Prenatal Insecticide Exposures and Birth Weight and Length among an Urban Minority Cohort (PDF, 8 pp, 142KB)
- An Intervention to Reduce Residential Insecticide Exposure during Pregnancy among an Inner-City Cohort (PDF, 6 pp, 530KB)
- Impact of Prenatal Chlorpyrifos Exposure on Neurodevelopment in the First 3 Years of Life Among Inner-City Children (PDF, 15 pp, 234KB)

Laurie Stillman - Director of Health Policy and Advocacy at The Medical Foundation in Boston and Executive Director of the Asthma Regional Council of New England (ARC)

PDF version of presentation (17 pp, 57KB, About PDF)
Investing in Best Practices for Asthma: A Business Case for Education and Environmental Interventions (PDF, 16 pp, 373KB) Updated in 2009
Case Study: Integrated Pest Management Pilot Project: Boston Housing Authority's Holgate Apartments (PDF, 14 pp, 73KB)

Dan Kass - Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Environmental Surveillance and Policy within the Division of Environmental Health Services at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

PDF version of presentation (PDF, 24 pp, 635KB)
See these related links:
- survey-2005pest.pdf and,
- pest-bro-healthy-home.pdf

Dr. Thomas Green - President of the IPM Institute of North America

PDF version of presentation (PDF, 16 pp, 1.05MB)
Brochure: Green Shield Certified (PDF, 2 pp, 311KB)

Dr. Robert Corrigan - President of RMC Pest Management Consulting

PDF version of presentation (PDF, 23 pp, 1.94MB)

EPA is in the process of developing a series of case studies on community-based IPM. These case studies are designed to convey details about: 1) costs and benefits of using an IPM approach; 2) challenges facing IPM program managers and how they can be addressed; and 3) models for successful programs. We welcome your comments on these draft case studies.

Integrated Pest Management in Boston Public Housing: Partnerships, Programs, and Policy Advances (PDF, 8 pp, 106KB)

Cincy Cockroach Reminds of Dangers of Poor Pest Control (PDF, 4 pp, 139KB)

Rodents and Insects Reported in More Than 50% of Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher Housing (PDF, 3 pp, 80KB)

Can Resident Education Make a Difference in Pest Control for Public Housing? (PDF, 5 pp, 81KB)

Environmental Health Watch’s Collaboration with Cuyahoga Housing Authority Demonstrates the ... (PDF, 5 pp, 155KB)

CHAMACOS: A Community-University Partnership (PDF, 5 pp, 240KB)

All six case studies as one file (PDF, 34 pp, 813MB)