Products

The contract specifies products that the ENVIRONS team must create as part of the study. These products can be found on this page.

Educational materials, such as presentation slides and fact sheets, can be found on the Education page.

Please leave any feedback or comments you have on products using the feedback form.

Feedback and Comments

Phase I - Planning and Foundations (March 2022 - February 2023)

ENVIRONS Questionnaires

April 2022

After participating in a tour of the GES neighborhoods, each ENVIRONS team member completed a questionnaire prepared by the Community Council. In addition to individual responses, a summary for the team was created.

Read the questionnaires.

Read the cover letter.

Shared Operational Principles

June 2022

The Community Council, ENVIRONS, and Steering Committee identified roles and define shared values, motivations, expectations, and limitations for the study.

Read the Shared Operational Principles.

Read the cover letter.

Community Engagement Plan

August 2022

The Community Engagement plan was developed with the Community Council and Steering Committee. It defines how ENVIRONS will communicate with the Community Council and the Steering Committee, and outlines strategies for communicating with residents, soliciting community input, and maintaining transparency.

Read the Community Engagement Plan.

Read the cover letter.

Preliminary Data Identification and Narrative

October 2022

ENVIRONS identified sources of data, literature, and on-going projects that will be used in Phase II. As part of this, ENVIRONS reviewed the crowd sourced literature review curated by the Steering Committee prior to ENVIRONS coming onto the study.

Read the Narrative in English or Spanish.

Read the response to public comment.

Read the cover letter.

Course Correction Plan

February 2023

ENVIRONS worked with the Community Council and Steering Committee to create a course correction plan. This plan ensures that the study is headed in the right direction for Phase II.

Read the Course Correction Plan in English, or in Spanish.

Project Website and Dynamic Maps

February 2023

You're here! The website is available in English and Spanish, and maps are available on the Maps page.

Phase II - Analysis (March 2023 - February 2025)

Data Rubric and Existing Source Evaluation

August 2023

ENVIRONS created a rubric to evaluate the quality of literature and data, then applied this rubric to the sources of information identified in the crowd-sourced literature folder or in the Preliminary Data Identification and Narrative.

Read the Data and Literature Evaluation, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Health Impact Assessment

January 2024

This report characterizes areas of community concern, provides updated data to topics identified in the 2014 Health Impact Assessment report, and evaluates the implementation of recommendations from the 2014 report.

Read the ABC's of GES: The State of Health and Environment, or in Spanish.

Read the response to comment.

Exposure Outcome Matrix

April 2024

The Exposure Outcome matrix demonstrates the connections between environmental exposures in GES, health outcomes, and health disparities based on existing research.

Learn more and view the exposure-outcome matrix, or in Spanish.

Community Environmental Burden Assessment

Phase 1: Planning - April 2024

Phase 2: Analysis - October 2024

Phase 3: Risk Characterization - February 2025

This report, produced one part at a time, will quantify the human health risk from multiple chemical and non-chemical exposures.

Phase 1: Planning

This document outlines the plan for how ENVIRONS will conduct the Community Environmental Burden Assessment (CEBA), which makes up Deliverables 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 for the study.

Learn about the Planning, Scoping, and Problem Formulation, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Phase 2: Analysis

This document outlines the methods and preliminary results of the CEBA including modeled air pollution exposures across Denver and literature review of exposure-response relationships.

Read the Exposure Response Assessment, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Phase 3: Risk Characterization

As the final installment of the CEBA, this deliverable highlights the extent to which health outcomes are attributable to air pollution in GES.

Read the Burden of Disease and Future Scenarios, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Updated Narrative and Data Gap Analysis

March 2025

As a continuation of the Data Rubric and Existing Source Evaluation, this document evaluates all data sources and literature used in prior deliverables from Phase II that are specific and relevant to GES. This document includes a data gap analysis that analyzes the availability of data on environmental stressors, health outcomes, and health disparities in GES.

Read the Updated Data and Literature Evaluations and Gap Analysis, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Root Cause Analysis

March 2025

This community-driven root cause analysis investigates the environmental causes of concerns and health outcomes in GES. The final document is informed by community members and previous Phase II deliverables.

Learn about the Root Causes of environmental health concerns, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Static and Dynamic Maps

January 2025

ENVIRONS created static and dynamic maps illustrating the chemical and non-chemical exposures. The static maps are those included in other deliverables in Phase II and the dynamic maps will be on this website.

Learn about the Static Maps, or in Spanish.

Learn about the process for creating the Dynamic Maps, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Interact with the GES Health Study's Dynamic Maps, or in Spanish.

Community Health Study

March 2025

This comprehensive, community health study, as outlined in the Sierra Club v. Chao settlement, combines all previous deliverables from Phase II. The link below provides an overview that ties the Phase II deliverables together.

Read the Community Health Study overview, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Slide Deck and Information Packet

April 2025

The goal of this report was to create easily comprehensible materials to summarize the study history, process, findings, and deliverable utility for community members. This report includes a slide deck and an information packet. Feedback from the Community Council was incorporated to ensure that the materials are understandable and appropriately designed for community use.

Read the Study Information Packet and Slide Deck overview, or in Spanish.

View the Slide Deck, or in Spanish.

View the Information Packet, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Community Leadership Workshop

April 2025

On March 28, 2025, the GES Health Study held a Community Leadership Workshop for GES residents. The workshop was designed and facilitated by Groundwork Denver.

Learn more about the Community Leadership Workshop, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Community Air Purifier Workshop

April 2025

On April 8, 2025, the GES Health Study held a Community Air Purifier Workshop for GES residents. During this workshop, participants learned about air quality in GES and learned how to build do-it-yourself (DIY) air filters for improving indoor air quality. DIY air filter materials were provided by the Study for all participants.

Learn more about the Community Air Purifier Workshop, or in Spanish.

Read the Response to Comment.

Community Outreach

April 2025

This deliverable reports outreach efforts during Phase II. This includes neighborhood canvassing and presentations to partner organizations in the community. All materials used in outreach efforts are included in this report.