About Us
We are a group of science educators, seeking to improve pest control in public housing. We are the Northeastern IPM Center at Cornell University. We received funding from a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) interagency agreement to bring integrated pest management (IPM) to public housing authorities (PHAs) across the country.
Our program consists of:
- IPM training materials—the well-vetted resources you will find on StopPests.org are available to everyone. The intended audience is housing, but many public health and pest management professionals have used the resources too.
- IPM training—we are funded to run 20 trainings at conventional PHAs across the country. The training program consists of bringing IPM experts to a housing authority to run a day of training. One of the experts is available for technical assistance for one year following the training to help the housing authority pilot IPM at a site. If you are from a PHA and are interested in getting on our waiting list for training, please fill in a Training Request Form.
- Technical support—PHAs that receive training through our program have to pilot IPM. We take the lessons learned and questions raised and share them through this website and our StopPests Blog.
