- Next CHE Partnership Call – May 18 at 9 PST: Over the Top: The Cumulative Impact of Environmental Health Stressors
- Welcome: Science and Civility – Cornerstones of CHE
- Teresa Heinz Kerry Gives Keynote at CHE Pennsylvania Conference
- Matters of the Heart: CHE Partners Look at Environmental Cardiology
- Invitation to CHE National Reception, New York City – June 9
- CHE Working/Discussion Group Updates
- Tools and Announcements for CHE Partners
- CHE Science News
- Welcome to New CHE Partners
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Next CHE Partnership Call – May 18 at 9 PST: Over the Top: The Cumulative Impact of Environmental Health Stressors
One of the most critical issues in environmental health is the difficulty in appraising the effects of the cumulative impacts of many environmental stressors, especially in poor communities and communities of color. Poverty, racial discrimination, high unemployment, lack of access to nourishing food, lack of safe places to exercise, and toxic exposures are some of the many major stressors that these communities face. The Next CHE Partnership Call, set for Wednesday May 18th at 9:00am PT/ 12:00noon ET, will focus on the cumulative impacts of multiple environmental stressors. The speakers will be chemist Wilma Subra, of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, Diane Takvorian, Executive Director of the Environmental Health Coalition in San Diego and Veronica Eady, General Counsel for the West Harlem Environmental Action.
To join this call, please RSVP to Frieda Nixdorf at: info@healthandenvironment.org.
Call Details:
What: CHE Partnership Call – Over the Top: The Cumulative Impact of Environmental Health Stressors
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Time: 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time/ 12:00 noon Eastern Time
Dial in Number: 334-323-9856
Password: CHE ("CHAY")
Welcome: Science and Civility – Cornerstones of CHE
Dear CHE Partners and Friends:
A warm welcome to new CHE Partners joining our dialogue on environmental health sciences. The heart of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment is our commitment to raising the level of public and professional dialogue about the revolution in the environmental health sciences. That requires twin commitments to science and civility. The commitment to good science speaks for itself. The commitment to civility has proven just as important. With a national (and now international) Partnership of 1500 Partner Organizations and Individuals, CHE encompasses a very wide range of views on what the extraordinary new findings in environmental health sciences mean to us.
To create a safe virtual community to explore the implications of the revolution in environmental health sciences, CHE has created a culture of real respect for our differences. That respect is merited because we all share the same goals, described in the CHE Consensus Statement. We are all committed to creating a world where our children can grow up free and strong, safe from conception onward from toxic chemicals and other environmental stressors that cause so much unnecessary suffering as they contribute to many of the epidemic diseases and disorders of our time.
Three recent CHE events are examples of the extraordinary ongoing dynamics of the CHE Partnership. The first was the truly remarkable opening conference of CHE-Pennsylvania, described directly below. The second was the April CHE Partnership Call, “Matters of the Heart,” a wonderful discussion of the important new field of Environmental Cardiology with several of the founding researchers in that field. The third is the great interest in the Asthma and the Environment Discussion Group, which held its first conference call in March with 82 participants.
Michael Lerner
CHE Partner
Teresa Heinz Kerry Gives Keynote at CHE Pennsylvania Conference and Presents Award to Herbert Needleman; Herberman and Devra Davis Developing Nation’s First Environmental Oncology Center at a Major Cancer Institute
Teresa Heinz Kerry delivered the keynote address for the remarkable opening conference of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment in Pennsylvania on Thursday, April 7 at the Herberman Conference Center of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Her knowledgeable, extended, and frequently extemporaneous comments demonstrated an exceptional grasp of environmental health, a field in which she has pioneered with a special interest in women and the environment. For those of us who had not heard Mrs. Heinz Kerry speak at length on environmental health, the talk was a true tour de force.
Mrs. Heinz Kerry presented a special award to Herbert Needleman, M.D., Professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Member of the CHE Science Advisory Board. Dr. Needleman is universally recognized as one of the great pioneers of environmental health because of his seminal work on lead.
The conference was opened by Ronald Herberman, M.D., Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Dr. Herberman deserves special recognition from CHE Partners as the first Cancer Institute Director to create a Center for Environmental Oncology, with CHE Partner Devra Lee Davis, Ph.D. as Director. The Center is part of Dr. Herberman’s broader vision of the need to increase the emphasis in cancer research on prevention. Dr. Herberman and Dr. Davis have robust plans for the further development of the Center for Environmental Oncology, which CHE will follow with great interest.
The opening plenary of the conference included comments by Bernard Goldstein, M.D., Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Ken Olden, Ph.D., the recently retired Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (which publishes Environmental Health Perspectives, one of the most authoritative environmental health science periodicals), Devra Lee Davis, Ph.D., the author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, an account of a deadly pollution inversion in her nearby home town of Donora, and Phil Landrigan, M.D., Chair of the CHE Science Advisory Board and Chief of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. The entire first evening of the conference was nothing less than an electric event.
The full day conference on Friday, April 8, was equally rich in content and insight. CHE Partner Charlotte Brody, R.N., Executive Director of Commonweal, who spoke of the effects of multiple kinds of stressors on the health of children, chaired the opening plenary. Then CHE Partner Ted Schettler, M.D., Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, presented an overview of existing and emerging environmental health science. Dr. Needleman then gave an intriguing talk on “Lead and Crime: A Little Known Effect.” He made the point that our understanding of the role in lead in health moved from its physical effects to its effects on intelligence in the past. The current frontier is its effects on behavior, including delinquent and criminal behavior. And the coming frontier is a new study finding that rats exposed to lead during fetal development develop in late life the plaque formations found associated with Alzheimer’s Disease in humans. CHE Partner Pete Myers, Ph.D., Director of Environmental Health Sciences, then spoke on “Environmental Exposures Altering Gene Expression: New Opportunities for Disease Prevention.”
The afternoon plenary, chaired by Dr. Goldstein, began with a talk by CHE Partner Shelley Hearne, Dr.P.H., Executive Director of Trust for America’s Health, on chronic disease tracking systems and policy implications. Dr. Hearne made the point that Pennsylvania, like much of the rest of the country, is ill equipped for a wide variety of potential public health emergencies, from chemical or biological terrorism to a flu pandemic, and that rebuilding the public health infrastructure for the challenges of a new century was one of our great public tasks. The second presentation was on environmental birth defect tracking by Adolfo Correa, Ph.D., M.D., Medical Epidemiologist at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Then Robbi Ali, M.D., Director for the Center for Health Environments and Communities at the Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, described an innovative project he has directed to inventory Pittsburgh’s environmental health.
The five afternoon workshops could each have been plenary sessions in their own right, and we can only give them cursory treatment here. The workshops included a number of long-time CHE Partners, and they also showcased 16 regional leaders in research, advocacy and education. The workshops focused on learning disabilities, breast cancer, air pollution, endocrine disruptors, pesticides and community engagement.
• Elise Miller, M.Ed., Executive Director of the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health and Director of the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative in CHE, led a session on learning disabilities with Dr. Schettler, Carol Utay, Ph.D., Executive Director of Total Learning Centers of Wexford, PA and CHE/LDDI Partner Michelle Gagnon, Director of the American Association on Mental Retardation Environmental Health Initiative.
• Jo Ann Meier, M.Ed., the dynamic Executive Director of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Pittsburgh Chapter, led a workshop on breast cancer with strong participation by breast cancer advocates and leaders from across the state. CHE Partners Julia Brody, Ph.D., Director of Silent Spring Institute, and Nancy Evans, Health Science Writer/Editor/Consultant of The Breast Cancer Fund presented in this session, as they also did in a pre-conference meeting I was privileged to attend. The level of interest in environmental health in this community of breast cancer leaders was very promising.
• Rachel Filipini, Executive Director of the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), led a talented workshop on air pollution with CHE Partner Claire Barnett, Executive Director of the Healthy Schools Network, who spoke about indoor air quality. Roger Westman, Ph.D., introduced the Allegheny County Air Pollution Study from the perspective of his employer, the Allegheny County Health Department Air Quality Program. He was followed by Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Neil M. Donahue, Ph.D., (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, CMU) who talked about the air sampling technologies and project design of the same study. University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health professor, Evelyn Talbott, Dr.P.H., closed with a discussion of the health consequences and directions for the future for Allegheny County.
• The endocrine disruptors working group was chaired by Jane Browning, a founding CHE Partner who has played an historic role as Executive Director of the Learning Disabilities Association in launching LDA’s Healthy Children Project Initiative. Drs. Myers and Correa also spoke, along with Thomas Zoeller, Ph.D., Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a key resource for LDA on the effects of thyroid on learning and developmental disabilities.
• The pesticides working group was chaired by Viv Shaffer, M.Ed., Education Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association, with presentations by Founding CHE Partner Monica Moore, M.S., Co-Director of Pesticide Action Network North America. Bill Couzens, CHE Partner and Executive Director of Next Generations Choices Foundation, talked about how to influence personal choices to prevent pesticide drift. Glenn Smartschan, Ed.D., former superintendent of Schools, spoke about developing an Integrated Pest Management Policy (IPM) in the Mt. Lebanon school district.
• Finally, the community engagement working group was chaired by Steffi Domike, Coordinator of CHE-Penn with presentations by Amy Stiffey, M.A., Community Services Manager for Healthy Home Resources. Amy is responsible for building community collaborations and managing the lead hazard reduction and education programming. Myron Arnowitt, Western Pennsylvania Director for Clean Water Action, described and demonstrated how the “bucket brigades” capture dirty air. Fred Brown, M.S.W., Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Institute discussed how his group organizes for health and transportation equity. Jan Jarrett, Vice President of PennFuture discussed how to work in the legislative arena and how PennFuture uses the legal system to enforce environmental regulations.
The final plenary was chaired by Elise Miller and focused on building new partnerships for environmental health advocacy. CHE Partner Richard Wiles, M.A., Senior Vice President of the Environmental Working Group, described how language and framing play a key role in presenting environmental health issues to the public. Diane Heminway, Director of Environment Programs for United Steelworkers of America (which is in the process of merging with PACE, the Paper, Allied Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union to become the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied-Industrial and Service Workers International Union), gave a powerful description of the conditions faced by workers in many industrial work sites. Jane Browning described how the Learning Disabilities Association became a leading LDDI and CHE Partner on environmental health. And Ellen Dorsey, Ph.D., Program Officer at the Heinz Endowments for Environment Programs, gave a final overview of how the Heinz Endowment is integrating its strong program interests in climate change and environmental health.
The conference closed with a discussion of the next steps for CHE-Pennsylvania, with Coordinator Steffi Domike presenting a menu of options that were endorsed by a strong majority of Pennsylvania residents as a good working basis for moving forward. CHE-Penn is fortunate to be housed at PennFuture, a statewide policy organization funded by the Heinz Endowments, the Pew Charitable Trust, and other funding Partners. PennFuture understands that it houses CHE-Pennsylvania as a trust for all Pennsylvania CHE Partners. There is also a strong overlap between the policy agenda of PennFuture on issues like mercury, for example, and the interests of many CHE Partners.
Though the conference closed Friday, CHE’s work continued on Saturday with a half-day conference of the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative led by Elise Miller. The entire experience of the conference was nothing less than profound for many Pennsylvania CHE Partners and for the growing number of CHE circuit riders who are moving around the country to provide science input for these gatherings. Charlotte Brody, Julia Brody, Nancy Evans, Michael Green, Pete Meyers, Elise Miller, and Monica Moore are among those who can be seen at many of these gatherings as the CHE community morphs into different configurations to support the needs of the growing environmental health community.
After a decade or more of working with many of these CHE colleagues, many of us feel a seachange in the making. There is a growing sense that the public is beginning to understand that the revolution in environmental health sciences requires a drastic revision of the laws protecting the health of children and of all of us. There is a new sense that the message that we must rebuild the public health infrastructure is coming through. Many of us feel that our community is growing more coherent, more experienced, and more skillful in spreading the good news that a vast proportion of the current epidemic of chronic disease and ill health is preventable if we take achievable steps toward a precautionary approach to chemical policy. Those steps are part of the consensus statement that all CHE Partners agree with, and they represent the broad outlines of the next steps we need to take.
The founding CHE-Penn conference, undertaken with the visionary sponsorship of the Heinz Endowments, is another major step along the path to a prudent approach to chemical management.
Finally, the conference was organized with a tremendous effort by Steffi Domike, CHE-Penn Coordinator, Kathy Lawson, of the Learning Disabilities Association, and an outstanding committee of colleagues dedicated to environmental health collaboration in Pennsylvania (a list of these colleagues’ organizations can be viewed at: http://www.che-penn.org/). Their collaborative efforts resulted in a truly remarkable conference.
Matters of the Heart: CHE Partners Look at Environmental Cardiology
Last year the American Heart Association produced a key statement directed to health professionals about the environmental connections to heart disease. The AHA statement, combined with an important article in Environmental Health Perspectives, led to the creation of a new area of focus called Environmental Cardiology.
This April's CHE Partnership Call highlighted this new area of research. We learned that heavy metals like arsenic and mercury can play a role in the development of heart disease. We also heard how air pollution can have an important impact on heart health and cardiac arrests.
Our speakers included Dr. Murray Mittleman, Harvard's School of Public Health, Dr. Eliseo Guallar, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Ted Schettler, Science and Environmental Health Network. We encourage any interested CHE Partners to read the new peer-reviewed paper entitled Heart Disease and the Environment. This resource, along with key papers in Environmental Cardiology, can be found on the CHE website.
Invitation to CHE National Reception, New York City – June 9
CHE would like to extend a warm invitation to our CHE Partners in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area to join us for a reception on Thursday, June 9, 2005 from 4:30 - 6:30 pm in Manhattan. This reception will follow a regional meeting of CHE's Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI), earlier in the day.
Please join us for hors d'oeuvres and a discussion in which Charlotte Brody, R.N., Executive Director of Commonweal, and other active CHE Partners will speak briefly about the broad scope of environmental health concerns linked to the increases in chronic disease and disabilities, which CHE is working to address. This reception will also be a wonderful opportunity to connect with other CHE Partners in your region.
This event will be held at the Young Adult Institute for People with Developmental Disabilities, 460 West 34th, near 10th Avenue, New York City on June 9th from 4:30 until 6:30 p.m.
For more information about the reception, and to RSVP by May 19th, please contact Frieda Nixdorf, CHE Administrative Specialist, at: info@healthandenvironment.org. We hope you are able to join us.
CHE Working/Discussion Group Updates
Asthma and the Environment Discussion Group is off to an exciting start. Polly Hoppin, of University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Jeanette Swafford of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and Ani Gupta of the Center for Environmental Health co-coordinate the discussion group. More than 80 people participated in the first discussion, which featured a presentation by Dr. Rob McConnell of the Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California. Dr. McConnell summarized his research findings, indicating that air pollution not only exacerbates, but actually causes new cases of asthma among children highly exposed to automobile exhaust. Another call is slated for late May. To participate in the group, please contact Ani Gupta at: ani@cecha.org.
Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) held its second regional meeting in Pittsburgh, PA on April 9th as part of the inaugural CHE-PENN conference. Approximately 40 people attended this half-day workshop, including researchers, health professionals, learning and developmental groups, public health representatives, environmental health and justice advocates and other concerned citizens. Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., Herbert Needleman, M.D. and Laura Hewitson, Ph.D. provided science overviews and updates on neurotoxicants, followed by a panel of national, state and local non-profits, represented by Kathy Lawson, Myron Arnowitt and Amy Stiffey, M.A., who is working to protect communities from neurotoxicants through education and policy efforts. Kathy Lawson, who directs the Learning Disabilities Association's Healthy Children Project, will be the point person in Pennsylvania to follow-up with participants on potential collective LDDI activities.
LDDI's next regional meeting will be held June 9th in New York City at the Young Adult Institute for People with Developmental Disabilities from 9:00 - 4:30 p.m. followed by a CHE reception. For more information, please see: http://www.iceh.org/LDDImeetings.html.
These regional meetings are a key part of LDDI's outreach to learning and developmental disabilities organizations and environmental health partners interested in reducing exposures to environmental pollutants that can impair healthy brain development. In every state where we hold a meeting, we intend to catalyze sustainable educational and policy efforts among CHE Partners. For more information about the work of LDDI, please contact Elise Miller at: emiller@iceh.org.
Tools and Announcements for CHE Partners
CHE’s public policy primer "Our Health and the Health of the Environment: How Are They Connected? What Can We Do To Improve Both?" aims at providing its readers with some elemental principles of environmental health. Through the examples of asthma, learning disabilities and breast cancer, the primer explains what we are learning about the links between chronic illness, toxic chemicals and other environmental contaminants. The primer also gives examples of legislative and corporate policies aimed at improving our health and the health of the environment. While many CHE Partners do not engage in policy or advocacy work, many others are deeply engaged. The CHE primer seeks not to press policy or advocacy on Partners but to give Partners as sense of the policy and advocacy options available to those Partners who are interested. The primer is available by contacting Frieda Nixdorf at: info@healthandenvironment.org. A PDF of the primer may also be downloaded from the CHE website.
Chemical Contaminants and Human Disease: a Summary of Evidence, an extensive consolidation of published scientific research on the links between environmental exposures and human health, written by CHE Partners Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., and Sarah Janssen, M.D., Ph.D., is available on the CHE website.
CHE Partner Jessica Leibler, a graduate student in environmental health policy at Harvard, is investigating how professionals in the environmental health and justice fields understand social equality. Jessica is seeking assistance in her research and asks that health professionals take 15-20 minutes to complete an anonymous online survey. Your responses will help further knowledge about equity in public health policy.
If your first name begins with the letters A-M, click here for the survey: http://poll.icommons.harvard.edu/poll/taker/pollTakerOpen.jsp?poll=1,1-3329-74669.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z, click here for the survey: http://poll.icommons.harvard.edu/poll/taker/pollTakerOpen.jsp?poll=1,1-3330-74852.
This project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The lead investigator is Dr. Jonathan Levy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Please feel free to contact Jessica at: jleibler@hsph.harvard.edu, if you have any questions.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) is pleased to announce the 2nd annual national conference: Environmental Solutions to Obesity in America's Youth, to be held June 1-2, at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. For more information, please visit: http://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/conferences/drcpt/oe2005/index.cfm.
Ruthann Rudel recently published a letter in the Journal of Children’s Health claiming that industry is underestimating exposure to decaBDE. Clean Production Action and European Public Health Alliance have cited the letter in their comment on the EU risk assessment for this compound. The letter is available on the Silent Spring website at: http://library.silentspring.org/publications/journal.asp.
CHE Science News
Debate over a Leaching Chemical Heats Up
USA Today, 14 April 2005, Elizabeth Weise
When the plastic industry examines the health impact of a ubiquitous chemical called bisphenol A, everything's fine. If the government or a university funds the study, there are big problems.
Study Cites Risk of Compound in Plastic Bottles
Los Angeles Times, 13 April 2005, Marla Cone
Evidence is mounting that a chemical in plastic that is one of the world's most widely used industrial compounds may be risky in the small amounts that seep from bottles and food packaging, according to a report to be published this week in a scientific journal.
Indoor Air Quality is a Top Health Risk
Washington Post, 9 April 2005, Matthew Robb
The Environmental Protection Agency has declared the air two to five times as polluted indoors than out, and placed it among the top five environmental risks to public health. The problem: Homes populated by mites, molds, bacteria, dander and volatile organic compounds, creating a hostile environment for the sensitive.
Ionizing Air Cleaners Get Zapped
USA Today, 4 April 2005, Elizabeth Weise
Popular and expensive ionizing air cleaners - a staple of late-night infomercials - could expose users to lung-damaging levels of ozone, and they do a poor job of actually cleaning the air, according to a study in the May issue of Consumer Reports.
Brain Toxin Found in Algae in Water: Possible Link to Alzheimer's, other Illnesses Studied
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 April 2005, Susanne Quick and John Fauber
An environmental toxin linked to common neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has been found in blue-green algae-contaminated water throughout North America and the world.
Environmental Groups are Praising the E.P.A. for Updating Cancer-Risk Guidelines
New York Times, 4 April 2005, Michael Janofsky
A remarkable thing happened last week: the Environmental Protection Agency announced a set of guidelines, and environmental groups were largely complimentary in response. The new guidelines take into account, for the first time, the likelihood that children may be more vulnerable.
‘Environmental Justice’ Gains Steam
Mongomery Advertiser, 4 April 2005, William West
Frances Weiss lives in an area of Montgomery where the noise and smell of heavy industry, along with the sights of some large abandoned plants, are ways of life.
Legislature Considers Bill to Ban Chemical from Kids' Products: Bisphenol A Found in Pacifiers, Toys and Baby Bottles
San Francisco Chronicle, 31 March 2005, Jane Kay
An obscure chemical in hard plastic baby bottles, liners inside canned food and some water containers lies at the center of controversy as the California Legislature considers a bill to ban it in children's products.
Study Says Household Dust Holds Dangerous Chemicals: Homes in 7 States Tested for Residues of Consumer Goods
San Francisco Chronicle, 23 March 2005, Jane Kay
Common household dust contains a variety of hazardous chemicals originating from everyday consumer products, including Teflon and other nonstick cookware and fabrics coated with water-resistant Gore-Tex, according to a study released Tuesday.
Group Links Mercury to Learning Disabilities
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 15 March 2005, Eleanor Chute
No one can see mercury in a fish dinner with the naked eye, but Jane Browning, executive director of the Learning Disabilities Association of America, has seen its effects.
Welcome to New CHE Partners
Welcome to the new CHE Partners who have joined in April.
Organizations:
American Lung Association of Florida, Inc., Tallahassee, FL
Clinical Regional Advisory Network, Wilmington, DE
Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education, Los Angeles, CA
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA
JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies, Boston, MA
Learning Disabilities Association of Oregon, Beaverton, OR
Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma, Long Beach, CA
MCS-Global Campaign for Recognition of MCS, Kallangur, Queensland, Australia
Multnomah County Sustainability Initiative, Portland, OR
Oregon Center for Environmental Health, Portland, OR
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, Portland, OR
Public Health - Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA
Public Safety of Kentucky, Frankfurt, KY
Save the Oceans, New York, NY
Toxics Information Project (TIP), Providence, RI
UHU All, All Against The Lead, Kissimmee, FL
Voice of the Environment, Belvedere, CA
Individuals:
Dr. Mathew Barlow, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, MA
Pilar Basterrica, Nurse-Midwife, Medical Care Coordinator, American Embassy, Santiago, Chile
Karen Bowman, RN, MN, President, Karen Bowman & Associates, Inc., Seattle, WA
Esther Bush, Asthma Coordinator, Coalition For Community Health, Los Angeles, CA
Allison Campbell, Field Organizer, WashPIRG, Seattle, WA
Jennifer Casari, M.S., Teacher, Daniel Webster Elementary, San Francisco, CA
Stephanie Chalupka, Ed.D., APRN, BC, CNS, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
Dawn DelMonte, M.P.H., Marriage and Family Therapist, We Care Society, Walnut Creek, CA
Eric Flatt, New York, NY
Amy Friedman, MPH, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
Robin Gandley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupation Health,
University of Pittsburgh and Magee Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Marin Gillis, L.Ph., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Health Care Ethics, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA
Stacey Gonzalez, Child Proofing Our Communities Coordinator, The Center for Health, Environment and Justice, Falls Church, VA
Michelle Gottlieb, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA
Sally Grady, MT (ASCP), MCLS, Health Scientist, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC
Michele Hammond, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Marie Hoemke, RN, PHN, Public Health Nurse, San Francisco Asthma Task Force, Napa, CA
Amy Joslin, Sustainability Manager, Multnomah County, Portland, OR
Jessica Kaslow, M.S., M.P.H., Environmental Health Scientist, California Department of Health Services, Oakland, CA
Rebecca Kass, Traverse City, MI
Rachel Langford, MSW, Clean Air Program Coordinator, American Lung Association of Oregon, Tigard, OR
Bradshaw Mallard, M.S., PA-C, Dearborn, MI
Rob McConnell, M.D., Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Ameesha Mehta-Sampath, M.P.H., Asthma Projects Coordinator, Environmental Protection Agency, New York City, NY
Alan Melnick, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Molly Miklosovic, M.P.H., AHOP Project Coordinator, Asthma Health Outcomes Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Michelle Mills, Ph.D., Berkeley, CA
Patricia Moulton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Peter Murchie, M.P.H., M.S., Portland, OR
Julie Osgood, M.S., Program Manager, Clinical Integration, MaineHealth, Portland, ME
Mary Ostrem, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA
Jenny Pompilio, M.D., Portland, OR
Debra Priesmeyer, M.A., Director of Nursing & Infection Control, Agency for Community Treatment Services, Tampa, FL
Shanmugam R, M.A., Director - Health, N.S. Agro and Rural Promotional Services, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Ronald Saff, M.D., Allergy & Asthma Diagnostic Treatment Center, Tallahassee, FL
Cecilia Sandoval, Assistant Project Coordinator, Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma, Long Beach, CA
Leshia Sattler, BBA, ASN, Student Nurse, ABAC, Ty Ty, GA
Jan Semenza, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Portland State University, Portland, OR
Catherine Thomasson, M.D., Staff Physician, Portland State University, Center for Student Health and Counseling, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, Portland, OR
Maye Thompson, Ph.D., R.N., Oregon Nurses Association, Portland, OR
Maria Valenti, Environmental Program Director, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA
Edward Winner, Ph.D., Risk Analyst, State of Kentucky, Frankfort, KY
Joan M. Wolf, R.N., M.S., Delaware Technical and Community College, Newark, DE
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