Press Room - Green & Healthy Homes Initiative

GHHI President and CEO Ruth Ann Norton Named to EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee

BALTIMORE, Md The Board of Directors of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative is pleased to announce that Ruth Ann Norton, our President and CEO, has been named to the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) Established by charter in 1997, CHPAC draws upon independent and...

May 20, 2020

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Among Top 100 Proposals for MacArthur Foundation $100 Million Grant

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today unveiled that the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) was one of the highest-scoring proposals, designated as the Top 100, in its prestigious 100&Change competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve one of the world’s most critical social challenges.

February 19, 2020

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Awards Two Sites with Asthma Business Development Technical Assistance

GHHI will provide pro bono technical assistance to build and strengthen two comprehensive asthma programs with environmental services benefitting low-income families across the US

January 29, 2020

Lead poisoning numbers in Maryland’s children continue to drop as new state law takes effect in October to accelerate the decline

Governor Larry Hogan proclaims Lead Poisoning Prevention Week in Maryland BALTIMORE, MD (October 23, 2019) – The number of Maryland children with elevated levels of lead in their blood last year decreased by nearly 14 percent, according to the 2018 Childhood Blood Lead Surveillance report,...

October 23, 2019

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Kicks-Off National Lead Poisoning Prevention

October 21, 2019, Washington, DC – Today the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) kicked off National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week events at its sites across the country to raise awareness of lead poisoning and to pursue the goal of its National Campaign to End Lead Poisoning within five...

October 21, 2019