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National Environmental Health Association  

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  • The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) was created in 1937 in California to establish standards for environmental health professionals. The environmental health field was still in its infancy stages and founders of the NEHA believed that these standards were needed to legitimize the profession. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)]

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