EHAC-National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council

Biographies

Sharron LaFollette

Sharron LaFollette (General Chair)

Professor Sharron LaFollette joined the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2001. She is currently chair of both the Department of Environmental Studies and the Department of Public Health. Before coming to UIS, she taught and was director of the Environmental Health Program at Illinois State University for eight years. Prior to joining academia, she spent eight years in Illinois government conducting multi-media risk assessments for all hazards and providing risk communication and environmental and occupational health educational programs for physicians, public health professionals, and the general public. She has worked at the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Illinois Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation Council, and Illinois Department of Public Health. At UIS she teaches courses in environmental risk assessment, toxicology, air quality, and solid and hazardous waste at the graduate level. She was instrumental in curriculum development for two graduate certificates: 1) Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security and 2) Risk Assessment.

During the 2005-2006 academic year, she wrote the self-study and received accreditation for EHAC for the UIS M.S. in Environmental Sciences with a concentration in Risk Sciences. She served two terms as general chair of the National Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council, and is past-president of the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs, and the Illinois Environmental Health Association. She is currently director at large of the Illinois Environmental Health Association. Her research and consulting is in risk evaluation, risk communication, workforce development, indoor air quality impact on health, and radon levels related to building dynamics.

Priscilla Oliver Dr. Priscilla Oliver (Treasurer)

Dr. Priscilla Oliver is a Life Scientist with the Office of Policy and Management of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the EPA Regional Program Manager for the Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) Program, a member of the Technical Editorial Advisory Board, and Co-Chair of the Hazardous Materials and Toxic Substances Section of the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). Experience includes twelve (12) years of inspecting municipal and industrial wastewater facilities, seven (7) years as an Assistant Professor with the Morehouse School of Medicine and Kennesaw State University, a Greater Leadership Opportunities Fellow (1988) of EPA, and a Legislative Fellow (1989) of the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Dr. Oliver is a member of the Environmental Health Diversity Task Force of the CDC/Eastern Kentucky University Partnership.

Pricislla enjoys working with faculty, administrators, and students. I would like to utilize my work and educational experiences to further assist the Accreditation Council with the promotion and the direction of environmental health as a profession.
Tim Ryan

Timothy J. Ryan

Dr. Timothy J. Ryan is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences at Ohio University, where he teaches courses in Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Health Sciences, and serves as the coordinator of both of these nationally accredited programs. His ongoing research programs involve MRSA, microbial volatile organics, and related environmental teaching area utilizing the iPod Touch in m-learning applications. In a career spanning 25 years in academia, industry, and state service, Ryan has produced over 20 peer-reviewed publications and more than 40 monographs, papers, posters, and presentations. He is a board certified industrial hygienist and safety professional.

 

Ryan currently serves on the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council, and is an active member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s Biosafety & Environmental Microbiology, and Indoor Environmental Quality committees. Ryan spearheaded the creation of the Laboratory Safety Section within the NSC during his tenure as Chair of that organization’s Laboratory Safety Committee, and has been a technical member of 3 local emergency planning committees.

 

Tim Ryan was formerly the Director & Risk Manager of Environmental and Physical Safety at the University of Houston, and the corporate manager of Industrial Hygiene, Safety, and Environment at Cray Research, Inc. His early career included work as the Manager of Biological and Chemical Safety Programs at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and as the Chemical and Biohazards Safety Officer at Michigan State University.

Alice Anderson Alice Anderson, Ph. D (Secretary)

Dr. Anderson received her Ph. D. degree in Biology from Bowling Green State University with a research concentration in wetland biology. Her master’s degree was completed in 7 years after she received a NSF scholarship. During those seven years, she was director of Central Michigan University’s summer program for high school students, a two week program at the University’s Biological Station on Beaver Island. Her Ph. D. research on Northern bog lake caddisflies was also done at the CMU Biological Station. One of her two postdoctoral research positions was at the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, and the other at the University of Arkansas Agricultural Station in Fayetteville Arkansas, and at Stuttgart, Arkansas working with ricefield mosquitoes. She was then employed as a medical entomologist for 19 years with the Public Health Pest Management Section with the State of North Carolina. Research in tick habitat, mosquito habitat, salt marsh biology and alterations, and other pest species, along with teaching local government employees about mosquito control and vector borne disease occupied these years.

Consultation with all coastal county health departments, public works departments, and emergency management departments was the mainstay of her work with the Public Health Pest Management Section. During this tenure she also served as an officer and president of two associations of mosquito control professionals. She is author of articles covering many topics in wetland biology and pest management. For the last 6 years she has been an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, teaching Public Health Vectors, Program Management and Law, and other courses. She has been the graduate program coordinator at ECU for the last 4 years.
Sharron LaFollette Joe Amiotte

I am currently the Supervisory Sanitarian with the Indian Health Service, Office of Environmental Health and Engineering, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. I have been with the Office of Environmental Health since 1999, where our broad areas of responsibilities include assisting the communities of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with: drinking water systems, waste water systems, solid waste, food surveys, indoor air, institutional health and safety, and injury prevention. Prior to my position at IHS, I held the position of Director of the Water Resources Program for the Oglala Sioux tribe, also in Pine Ridge. I am currently involved in various community, tribal, and federal boards and action groups including: Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) Solid Waste Workgroup, Seat Belt Community Action Group, OST Environmental Health Technical Team, OST Research Review Board, and the IHS Emergency Preparedness Committee. I would like to use my 13 years of experience in working with rural and minority populations to give their needs a voice with the accreditation council. I have been a Registered Environmental Health Specialist since 2000.
Sharron LaFollette Lynn Burgess

I graduated with a B.S. degree in zoology from Utah State University in 1974 and then I served for six years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. I returned to college at Eastern Washington University and graduated in 1989 with a master’s in biology. I worked for several years in the milk processing and animal feed businesses as the production and lab manager and product quality control. I worked in environmental health in 1990 at a county health department before returning to Utah State University and graduated in 1998 with a Ph.D. in toxicology. My primarily research area was in the chemoprevention of cancer.

I started work in 1999 at Dickinson State University as a biology professor. Presently, I am an associate professor and the Director of the Environmental Health Program. I started the program in the fall of 2003. We have now had 18 graduates and about 18 students are presently enrolled in the program. We should be able to apply for accreditation this fall.

I am just finishing five year grant from the NIH to study the anticarcinogenic mechanisms of lycopene and to introduce undergraduate students to biomedical research. This grant should be renewed for another five years and we will change to study the effect of heavy metals on gap junction communications. I’m a member of the Society of Toxicology, NEHA, AEHAP, and the North Dakota Environmental Health Association.
Sharron LaFollette Tania M. Busch Isaksen, MPH, R.E.H.S.

Tania M. Busch Isaksen is currently practicing environmental public health as a private consultant, as well as lecturing for the University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Tania began her career after receiving her bachelors of science, with an Environmental Health focus, from Colorado State University. She practiced as a generalist in a rural Colorado county until she took a position with Clallam County, WA Environmental Health Division. Tania was fortunate to work every program available at a local level, and was eventually appointed the Division’s Director. Tania has a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington, and now marks her 16 th year as an environmental public health professional. Her current consulting contracts and research interests focus on integrated solid waste management issues, as well as environmental health’s role in the new sustainability/green movement.

Tania is the 1999 recipient of the Washington State Environmental Health Association’s John Nordin Sanitarian of the Year award. She has been a register environmental health specialist with the National Environmental Health Association since 1993. Tania is a past EHAC council member, and has actively participated in the last two curriculum guideline updates.
Sharron LaFollette Sandy Donahue, REHS, DPA

Sandi Donohue, DPA, is a Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS), Structural Pest Control Field Representative, and Certified Hazardous Materials and Waste Manager. She earned her doctorate degree in public administration from the University of La Verne and her master degree in environmental and occupational health from California State University, Northridge. Her past experience includes working as a loss control consultant for a workers comp carrier, corporate sanitarian for a large grocery chain and food manufacturer, sanitarian and quality assurance manager with a large pest control firm, quality assurance/food protection manager with a national restaurant chain, and health and safety director for a medical center.

For the past 12 years, her primary focus has been teaching environmental health at the university level in nationally accredited and California State approved academic programs. She currently coordinates the program and teaches in the Environmental/Occupational Health & Safety Option at California State University, Fresno, specializing in the area of environmental/occupational health policy. Current research focuses on contamination of the San Joaquin River and gross alpha radiation levels in private drinking water wells.
Sharron LaFollette Mike Fletcher

I have been professor of environmental health at Missouri Southern State University since 1993, teaching eleven different environmental health courses including epidemiology, vectors, regulations, food, soils, water and wastewater. Since 2001, I have been Environmental Health Program Director at MSSU (an EHAC accredited program). Prior to MSSU, my field experience was Environmental Specialist with the Oklahoma State Health Department and Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality from 1982 to 1993 working as an environmental health generalist out of different county offices across the state. With 11 years of field experience and 15 years of academic experience; I have a broad based perspective of environmental health.

I serve my local area and state as a board of health member for the City of Joplin and a board member for the Missouri Board of Certification of Environmental Health Specialists.

From 2002 to 2006, I served the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs as board member, president-elect, president and past-president. I was glad to serve on the AEHAP committee that created the brochure "Careers in Environmental Health".

I have been a council member of the Environmental Health Accreditation Council, EHAC since 2006. With EHAC, I have helped review the undergraduate guidelines, performed a primary review and a site visit for Illinois State University and I am currently helping with the Mississippi Valley State University site visit.
Harry Grenawitzke

Consultant in Environmental Health, Food Safety, and HACCP: 2003-Present
Environmental Health Consultant to US Dept of Justice: 2003-Present
Adult Detention and Correctional Institution Specialist Food Safety Plan Review, Food Manager Certification and HACCP Trainer for NSF International: 2004-Present
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Field Services NSF International, Ann Arbor Michigan 1997-2002
Assistant Vice President of Regions, Certification and Toxicology 1992-1997
Director of Regional Services 1990-1992
Director of Environmental Health Division Monroe County Health Department, Monroe, Michigan 1975-1990
Assistant Director of Environmental Health Monroe County Health Department, Monroe, Michigan 1974-1975
Environmentalist II, Division of Environmental Health Berrien County Health Department, Benton Harbor, Michigan 1969-1973
University of Michigan School of Public Health Adjunct (1989 – Present)
Classes Taught: Environmental Health Management and Organizational Behavior
Tom Hatfield Tom Hatfield (Graduate Chair)

Dr. Tom Hatfield is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the California State University, Northridge. He is also a member of the editorial board for the national Journal of Environmental Health, and was recently appointed the managing editor for the California Journal of Environmental Health. He was a fulltime employee of the National Sanitation Foundation as well as the Orange County Environmental Health Division, and has consulted for numerous private and governmental organizations. He previously served a six year term with EHAC and hopes to complete another six year term with this election.
Charles Higgins Charles L. Higgins, MS BS, MS

Charles L. Higgins, MS BS (1978) and MS (1994) from Colorado State University Currently assigned to the National Park Service (NPS), under the Associate Director for Visitor and Resource Protection as the Director, Office of Public Health. This program is responsible for protecting the 275 million people that visit America's parks each year. A total of 32 Public Health Service Officers staff the program and conduct activities to detect disease transmission, limit human impacts, conduct on-site environmental health surveys and consult with park unit managers on improving visitor protection.

Previous PHS assignments:
NPS Intermountain Region, Public Health Consultant (Denver, CO) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Senior Environmental Health Scientist (Atlanta, GA) Detailed to: State of Wyoming as Director, Consumer Health Services Division (Cheyenne, WY) U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Senior Training Officer (Rockville, MD)

Additional Experience: Denver Department of Health and Hospitals, Public Health Investigator (Denver, CO) Safeway Stores Supply Division, Quality Assurance and Occupational Health Supervisor (Denver, CO) Converse County Health Department, Deputy Health Officer and County Sanitarian (Douglas, WY) Natrona County Health Department, Environmental Health Intern (Casper, WY)

I am interested in serving on the Environmental Health Accreditation Council because of my strong belief that the practice of environmental health necessitates close ties between environmental health programs and the academic institutions that prepare those in the workforce. Only by working closely together can these two aspects of environmental health provide for the continuous improvement of the profession.
Stephen E. Johnson, DM, CSP (Undergraduate Co-Chair)

Currently, I am an Associate Technical Fellow at the Boeing Company assigned as the enterprise technical safety leader. Responsibilities include the direction of company safety processes, technical safety consulting, and principle investigator on publishable safety-related research. Current research activities are oriented toward safety climate and safety behavior. Prior to Boeing, experience included positions as the Director of Risk Management for two major corporations and as a loss control national representative for two major insurance carriers. I also serve as a NIOSH Scientific Review Officer responsible for leading the scientific review of research proposals intended for NIOSH funding. Experience also includes faculty positions with the University of Phoenix and prior experience with Central Washington University. I received a BS in Biology (University of Washington) in 1976, an MBA from Pacific Lutheran University in 2001, and a Doctor of Management from University of Phoenix in 2005. I have published 6 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Safety Research, Professional Safety, and the Risk Management Journal.

I am married with two children and enjoy skiing, hiking, and musical performance. EHAC Interest: I am interested in the education of new occupational safety and health professionals at the university level. As an university instructor and researcher, I value the importance of quality education and the need to have standards defining education levels acceptable to organizations hiring new professionals. Service on the EHAC will enhance this interest and provide an opportunity to be of service to our profession.
Diana Rawlings Diana Rawlings

I am the Assistant Director of Environmental Health for the Peoria City/County Health Department in Peoria Illinois, a jurisdiction of around 160,000 people.   In that position, I directly supervise eight Sanitarians, two clerical positions and an Environmental Health Educator.  Together, we regulate around 1,200 licensed food facilities and operate programs in private sewage disposal, private, semi-private & non-community waters, tanning & housing programs.  We are one of only five jurisdictions in Illinois to conduct a childhood lead poisoning prevention program.

I received a bachelor’s in biology at the University of Great Falls, Montana, and I am currently in the MPH program at UIC college of medicine, in Peoria.  While in undergraduate school I worked in food safety for Meadowgold Dairy and managed the microbiology laboratory for the University.  After receiving my bachelor’s I immediately went to work in Environmental Health at a local health department in Illinois.  Within three months I became a licensed environmental health practitioner (LEHP) and Director of Environmental Health Services for two rural counties.  I set up the Environmental Health programs for both counties, wrote ordinances and began certified food sanitation manager courses.  I have now served as a manager in Environmental Health programs for almost ten years.

In addition to my duties at work I serve on several Environmental Health boards and committees.  I am currently the President-Elect for the Illinois Environmental Health Association.  I chair the Lead Safe Work Practices Subcommittee of the Governor’s Task Force for Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and the Housing Subcommittee of the Peoria Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Consortium.  In addition, I serve on the National Association of Counties Indoor Air Advisory Committee, the IL Environmental Public Health Tracking Consortium, the EPA’s Central Region Groundwater Committee, the EPA DePue Superfund Advisory Committee, the FDA Food Code Advisory Committee, the Tri-County Bioterriorism Planning Committee, and the Peoria GIS Consortium.  I am also a member of the Illinois Association of Environmental Health Administrators, Tri-County Green-Matters, and the Tri-County Bioterriorism Planning Committee.

I am a strong advocate for Environmental Health practice in the public health sector.  I would like to utilize my experience to further assist the Accreditation Council with the promotion and the direction of environmental health as a profession.
Mel Knight Mel Knight, REHS

I have been an environmental health practitioner for more than 35 years, and I’ve held a long standing interest in lifelong learning and workforce development. The following summarizes my qualifications to serve as an EHAC practitioner representative: Currently working as an environmental health and protection consultant.

Former Position - Director of Sacramento County Environmental Management Department (retired)
Prior service as Director of Environmental Health, and Deputy Public Health Officer.
Formerly with the State of California Health Services and Toxics Programs in Sacramento, Berkeley, and Los Angeles.

Undergraduate degree and graduate study at California State University, Northridge, in Health Science, with additional graduate study in Environmental and Occupational Toxicology at the University of San Francisco.
California REHS since 1972.

Past-Chair of: National Conference of Local Environmental Health Administrators, California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health, and California Environmental Health Association (CEHA); Current NEHA 2 nd Vice-President-elect; Co-Chair for the NEHA Leadership Development Section.

Recipient of the CEHA Outstanding Career Environmental Health Specialist Award (2002), CEHA Stuart E. Richardson Award (1998), and the University of California-Davis award for excellence in teaching and outstanding service in continuing education (1993); past member of the CSUN EH curriculum advisory committee.
Ingrid Ritchie Ingrid Ritchie

Ingrid Ritchie has an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Southwestern State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma and a master’s and doctorate degree in Environmental Health from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. Dr. Ritchie’s professional career spans about thirty years and includes employment as a research scientist at Minnesota’s pollution control, health, and state planning agencies; public service, and teaching at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA).

As Director of Academic Affairs, she is responsible for the school’s academic policies and procedures, probation and dismissal decisions, associate faculty hiring and development, providing broad oversight for curricular and assessment issues, and coordinating program reviews across the graduate and undergraduate majors. She has also served on the campus’s Program Review and Assessment Committee and is the current chair of the campus’s Undergraduate Curriculum Advisory Council, which provides oversight for curricular issues across the campus.

Dr. Ritchie’s interest in serving as a member of the Council stems from her involvement in seeking accreditation for SPEA’s Environmental Health Science program. The site visit team provided valuable insights and suggestions that have improved the overall quality of the program. Her interest in serving on the Council reflects a desire to continue the tradition of strong academic programs to ensure the nation has the highest level of qualified environmental health professionals.
Dale Stephenson

Dale Stephenson, Ph.D., CIH is Director of the EHAC accredited Undergraduate Environmental and Occupational Health Program and the Center for Excellence for Environmental Health and Safety at Boise State University (BSU). Prior to his employment at BSU, Dr. Stephenson spent four years at the University of Utah and two years at the University of Idaho as an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health. From 1991-1997, Dr. Stephenson was employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an occupational health professional. Dr. Stephenson is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene and he received his Ph.D. in Environmental Health from Colorado State University in 1991. Dr. Stephenson’s interests in Environmental Health arose from his tenure with the United States Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa where he worked with rural villages to improve water quality. Dr. Stephenson is active in research in the areas of air quality and environmental aerosol monitoring and has garnered extramural funding and published peer-reviewed articles related to these topics. Dale is married and has two boys (ages 15 and 17) and he is an avid squash player and likes to hunt and fish in the mountains and streams of Idaho.
Chuck Treser Chuck Treser (Undergraduate Co-Chair)

Mr. Chuck Treser was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1945. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Thiel College in 1967, and served three years in the United States Army. In 1971 he began his career in environmental health as an environmental health inspector with the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He obtained a MPH degree at the University of Michigan in 1976, after which he returned to Allegheny County where he developed a comprehensive training program for new environmental health employees. In 1980, he accepted a position as Lecturer in Environmental Health with the University of Washington's Department of Environmental Health to manage a continuing competency education system for environmental health personnel.

Chuck is currently a Senior Lecturer in the University of Washington’s Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. He is an active participant in the University of Washington’s Northwest Center for Public Health Practice – the organizational nexus within the School of Public Health & Community Medicine for connecting the academic pursuits of the school with the needs of the Public Health practice community. He has participated in several national efforts to improve EH workforce capacity, including being the principal investigator on a cooperative agreement between the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs (AEHAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve EH practice by promoting and strengthening environmental health academic programs. He is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Sanitarians.
Alan J. Dellapenna, Jr.

I have been an Environmental Health Officer in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service for over 26 years. All of my USPHS assignments have been with the Indian Health Service, including: an internship as a COSTEP; Service Unit Sanitarian positions in Rosebud, South Dakota and San Carlos, Arizona; Injury Prevention Specialist and Director of Environmental Health Services in Phoenix Area IHS; and Deputy Director, Environmental Health Services IHS Headquarters.

I have a B.S. in Environmental Health from Ferris State University, an MPH from the University of North Carolina, and am a graduate of the IHS Injury Prevention Specialist Fellowship. I am a Diplomat and serve on the board of the American Academy of Sanitarians. I am currently serving my second term as Chair of the USPHS Environmental Health Officer’s Professional Advisory. I completed a 3 year term as Deputy Director of Preventive Medicine on the USPHS Rapid Deployment Force Team 1 and am currently Deputy Team Commander of the team.

I am currently serving as historian for the Indian Health Service. I co-authored the recently published book, Caring & Curing: A History of the Indian Health Service. I have applied my history experience to environmental health through a series of presentations at NEHA, Commissioned Officer Association conference, and academic program presentations on environmental health history centering on the professionalization of environmental health and development of academic programs.

I have a strong interest in environmental health education. I coordinated and taught at numerous injury prevention courses over a 15 year period in IHS. I coordinated the COSTEP program for the IHS Division of Environmental Health Services starting in 2001. For many years I presented a COSTEP and recruiting update at the EHAC meeting and lead to IHS joining EHAC.

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Doug Briggs

 

Doug recently retired from The Boeing Company where his final position held was Enterprise Safety Director and part of the EOT EHS Leadership team. Doug moved to this Executive leadership position in January 2009 with the purpose of overseeing the development and implementation of a new Enterprise Safety Initiative with the focus on driving the company to break through performance in workplace safety.

Doug has been with Boeing since 1990, first starting as the Safety and Health Leader for the Renton Division. Subsequently he was named the BCA Group Safety and Health Leader from 1991 until 1998, when he then took the position of BCA Director of EHS. Doug held this position from 1998 until 2008. In this role Doug was the BCA representative on the Enterprise EHS Leadership Team, which oversees all activities related to the EHS programs and process across the Boeing Enterprise. He spent extensive time during this assignment working closely with executives both within Boeing, our suppliers, and customers to better understand the alignment, integration and accountability necessary for companies and individuals to successfully mitigate business risks related to Environment, Health and Safety.

Prior to coming to Boeing in 1990, Doug was the Corporate Director of Environmental/Occupational Safety and Health for Todd Shipyards Corporation from 1981 to 1990, and spent 6 years with the U.S. Department of Labor-Occupational Safety and Health Administration in different capacities in Chicago, Seattle and Denver.

Doug has his BS in Environmental Health from Colorado State University, Masters of Science in Public Health from the University of Washington and has been Certified in Industrial Hygiene.

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Carolyn H. Harvey

 

Dr. Carolyn Harvey is currently a full professor of Environmental Health at Eastern Kentucky University and Interim Director of the Master of Public Health program, where she has been a Professor since 2001. Before coming to EKU, she also taught at East Tennessee State University, also in the Environmental Health Department. Her teaching and research interests include: Occupational Health & Safety, Hazardous Materials Management, Air Pollution, Solid Waste, Industrial Hygiene Sampling & Analysis, HAZWOPER, and Industrial Ventilation, as well as farm safety, ergonomics and worker exposure assessment. Before joining the world of academia, she worked for the Galveston County Health Department in Texas, Union Carbide Corporation as an Environmental Engineer and Industrial Hygienist, and several other environmental health corporations. Harvey began her education at ETSU, and went on to get a Masters in Environmental Management from the University of Houston, and then her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, School of Public Health. She has previously been a Council Member and Board Member for the National Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council. Harvey has also served on the Board of the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs, and is a member of the National Environmental Health Association, the Academy of Hazardous Materials Managers and the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. She currently resides in Richmond, Kentucky.

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