• To provide a professional organization for Sanitarians and Environmental Health Professionals, designed to serve as the focal point for their education and professional status.
  
  
• To protect and strengthen the status of the Professional Sanitarian and the Environmental Health Professional, and to strive for recognition of the Association as a scientific group rendering service for the general welfare of the public.
  
  
• To provide educational meetings each year for members and their guests and to promote the exchange of ideas and update techniques in the profession.
  
  
• To bring about standardization in the interpretation of Environmental laws and practices of the State of Texas.
  
  
• To encourage the establishment of courses of instruction for the purposes of increasing knowledge and efficiency of Sanitarians and Environmental Health Professionals.
  
  
• To foster and promote high standards of attainment by Sanitarians and Environmental Health Professionals in their work and in their qualifications.
  
  
• To inform the general public and industry, through good public relations procedures, of the present work performed in Environmental science and the future goals of the Association.
  
  
• To promote better understanding and closer working relationships among this Association, Industry and other professional group

Association History:
    TEHA was founded in 1956 as the Texas Association of Sanitarians (TAS).  In 1965, the TAS proposed and sponsored the Texas statute that established the Registration of Professional Sanitarians.  In 1970, TAS affiliated with the National Environmental Health Association and in 1971 officially changed its name to the Texas Environmental Health Association.