Beth A. Resnick is an Assistant Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. She is the Associate Director of the Office of Public Health Practice and Training. Her research interests include assessing and improving the public health infrastructure, enhancing knowledge of potential environment and health connections, and developing effective l public health policies.

Prior to her appointment at Johns Hopkins, Beth Resnick was Director of Environmental Health at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). She provided education, information, research, and technical assistance to the nation’s 3,000 local health departments and facilitated partnerships among local, state, and federal agencies in order to promote and strengthen local environmental public health practice.

public health practice, environmental public health tracking, public health infrastructure, Department of Health Policy and Management

2004-2006 American Public Health Association Environment Section Governing Council Representative

2002 National Public Health Leadership Institute Scholar

1999 Mid-Atlantic Public Health Leadership Institute Scholar

Resnick, B., Zablotsky, J., Nachman, K. & Burke, T. (2008). Assessing the Front Lines of Local Environmental Public Health Practice: A Maryland Case Study. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 14 (1), 42-50 January 2008.

Dreyling, E., Dederick, E.J., Chari, R., Resnick, B., Malecki, K., & Burke, T (2007). Tracking Health and the Environment: A Pilot Test of Environmental Public Health Indicators. Journal of Environmental Health. 70 (5), 9-13 December 2007.

Resnick, B., Zablotsky, J., Farrow, O., Glotfelty, R., Heard, P., Kelly, S., Mitchell, C., Phillips, F. & Burke, T. (2007). Enhancing the Maryland Environmental Public Health Workforce: A Collaborative Approach. Journal of Environmental Health, 70(1), 32-36 August 2007.

Juzych, N., Resnick, B., Streeter, R., Herbstman, J., Zablotsky, J., Fox, M. & Burke, T. (2007). Adequacy of state capacity to address non-communicable disease clusters in the era of environmental public health tracking? American Journal of Public Health, 97, S163-S169 April 2007.

Litt, J.S., Wismann, A., Resnick, B., Dawson, R.S., Hano, A., & Burke, T.A. (2007). Advancing health and environmental disease tracking: a 5-year follow-up study. American Journal of Public Health, 97 (3), 456-463.

Litt J, Tran N, Malecki KC, Neff R, Resnick B, and Burke T. (2004). Mini-Monograph: Priority Health Conditions, Environmental Data, and Infrastructure Needs: A Synopsis of the Pew Environmental Health Tracking Project. Environ Health Perspectives: Vol. 112: No. 14. October 2004.