Vector Control Resources

Key points

Health departments provide important public health services including vector control. Environmental health professionals are on the frontline of helping individuals, institutions, and communities reduce threats from mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors. Find resources to improve the performance and quality of the services your program offers.

Two vector control inspectors looking into a hole near a fence.

Resources for environmental health

Integrated pest management

Integrated Pest Management Training Manual: Conducting Urban Rodent Surveys

What Is Integrated Pest Management?

Vector control

Vector Control Population Health Driver Diagram

Vector Control Tools & Resources (VeCToR) Toolkit (National Environmental Health Association, NEHA)

Vector Control for Environmental Health Professionals (VCEHP) Training

The following training programs also have modules on vector control:

Rodent control

Controlling Wild Rodent Infestations

Ticks and mosquitoes

Stormwater Management and Vector Breeding Habits

The Role of Local Environmental Health Departments in Tick-Related Activities and Services (NACCHO)

Practice

Vector Control Performance Assessment and Improvement Reports (Public Health Foundation)

A Performance Management Initiative for Local Health Department Vector Control Programs

Web-Based Review of Environmental Health Vector Control Services in the United States

More federal resources

Pictorial Keys to Arthropods, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals of Public Health Significance: Review our historical tool for teaching animal identification to personnel without special training in taxonomy.

Bed Bugs

Other insects and spiders

Publications

Access environmental health publications on vector control.

Bonnefoy X, Kampen H, Sweeney K. Public health significance of urban pests. Copenhagen: World Health Organization; 2008. (Sarisky J)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Integrated pest management: conducting urban rodent surveys. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006 [Internet publication].

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pictorial keys to arthropods, reptiles, birds, and mammals of public health significance. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2006 [Internet republication].

Connelly CR, Gerding JA, Jennings SM, Ruiz A, Barrera R, Partridge S, et al. Continuation of mosquito surveillance and control during public health emergencies and natural disasters. MMWR. 2020;69:938-40.

Drexler N, Miller M, Gerding J, Todd S, Adams L, Dahlgren FS, et al. Community-based control of the brown dog tick in a region with high rates of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 2012-2013. PLoS One. 2014;9(12):e112368. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0112368.

Gerding J, Kirshy M, Moran JW, Bialek R, Lamers V, Sarisky J. A performance management initiative for local health department vector control programs. Environ Health Insights. 2016;7(10):113-8.

Hall S, Gridley-Smith C, Chang A, Ullman A. Report summary: The role of local environmental health departments in tick-related activities and services. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2020;82(8):38-40.

Ruiz A, Gerding J, Cruz M, Laco J, Funk R. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry roles in hurricane response and postdisaster mosquito control. J Am Mosquito Control Assoc. 2020;36(2S):78-81.

Ruiz A, Vanover C, Parale A, Gerding J. Web-based review of environmental health vector control services in the United States. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2018;80(8):36–8.

Vanover C, Ruiz A. Tick talk: Keeping environmental health up with current trends. [commentary] J Environ Health. 2019;81(7):36-8.

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