Dr. Carolyn Harvey (General Chair)  

Dr. Carolyn Harvey is currently an associate professor of Environmental Health at Eastern Kentucky University, 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 been a Council Member and Board Member for the National Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council since 2003, and currently serves as Graduate Chair. 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 Industrial Hygiene Association. She currently resides in Richmond, Kentucky.

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.

Jim Dingman, M.S., R.E.H.S., D.A.A.S. is employed by Underwriters Laboratories in Northbrook, Illinois, as the Senior Regulatory Services Representative. Jim’s main area of responsibility is with UL's Environmental & Public Health Programs, including drinking water additives and system components, food service equipment, and swimming pool products. Prior to working at UL, Jim worked for the Tri-County Health Department in the Denver metro area for 16 years; last serving as their Education and Enforcement Coordinator. Jim is a long time NEHA member and served as Regional Vice-President for 2 terms. He is currently the Immediate Past President of NEHA. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Sanitarians – of which he is a Diplomate, and on the Lake County ( Illinois) Environmental Health Advisory Council.

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.