Enabling Rapid and Sustainable Public Health Research During Disasters Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2015) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers and Panelists
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers and Panelists
Pages 135-160
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, and is Coinvestigator of an National Institutes of Health (NIH) study of the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on children's health.
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Hospital Association Emergency Preparedness Committee, Dr. Barbera coordinated the implementation of the Hospital Mutual Aid System for Washington, DC.
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For 20 years he has been actively practicing public health at the local, state, and national levels with expertise in the areas of emergency preparedness, administration and infectious diseases.
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Stephen Bradberry, B.S., is the Executive Director of Alliance Institute, the Gulf South's premier nonprofit organization for training and technical skills assistance to individuals, communities, and organizations seeking to increase their capacity for community engagement. The organization currently oversees the community involvement portion of the Gulf Region Health Outreach Program, a 5-year program to strengthen health care, health literacy, and resiliency of Gulf Coast communities affected by the BP oil drilling disaster.
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For the past 25 years, Dr. Cairns has been a clinician, educator, investigator, and leader in emergency care focused on optimization of the host responses of individual patients and populations to acute and emergency medical conditions.
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Dr. Cairns is board certified in emergency medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a Fellow of the American Heart Association.
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A major focus of her career has been translational or integrative research, i.e., building interfaces between and among environmental and clinical research, education, and community health. She has considerable expertise in Community-Based Participatory Research, including its applications in Environmental Justice communities, and is currently the co-PI of a grant from NIEHS to investigate the long-term health effects of consumption of Gulf seafood potentially contaminated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the resulting unprecedented oil spill.
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Shelley DuTeaux, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Assistant Deputy Director for Public Health Emergency Preparedness for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
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Goldstein, M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and former dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. He is a physician, board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and in toxicology.
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He has been President of the Society for Risk Analysis, and has chaired the NIH Toxicology Study Section, EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, the National Board of Public Health Examiners, and the Research Committee of the Health Effects Institute. He has also served as a member or chairperson of numerous national and international scientific advisory committees for government, industry, and environmental groups.
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From 2002 through 2011 he developed the occupational and environmental epidemiological approaches to public health emergency preparedness within OPHD. Beginning in 2007, Mr.
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Mr. Heumann served as one of two state occupational health representatives on the NIOSH working group that developed the Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS)
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After the NIEHS response to the Katrina disaster, Mr. Hughes was given the HHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service in June 2006 and the NIH Director's Award in 2011 for responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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. In this role, she oversees the emergency response to a variety of environmental threats including disease outbreaks and clusters related to toxic exposures as well as natural, chemical, and radiological disasters.
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Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service. In addition, she has worked on issues of public health infrastructure and emergency preparedness for two public health professional associations in Washington, DC.
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Geological Survey, which responded to a number of major disasters during her tenure, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. For her work to help contain that spill, Dr.
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Previously he worked as a Senior Medical Officer and Regional Toxicologist for EPA and for the HHS Office of the Secretary in Denver, providing leadership, expertise, and coordination for multi-agency emergency responses, such as the Libby Montana asbestos situation, the anthrax attacks in Washington, DC, and Hurricane Katrina. He also conducted more than 30 field investigations while working for several years as a Medical Officer for CDC, NIOSH.
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She is also an Adjunct Research Scientist at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University. She is currently involved in several research projects, including a participatory project on children's recovery after the Joplin tornado and the Slave Lake wildfires; a 5-year project on the potential mental and physical health effects of the BP oil spill on children; a study of risk perception and evacuation behavior in hurricane-prone communities along the U.S.
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where she served as Director of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Research Program. In July 2009 she joined the HHS Office of the ASPR as a Senior Advisor.
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He is also Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Director of their pulmonary medicine course for second year medical students, and a pulmonary physician at their main teaching hospital, Montefiore Medical Center.
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NCDP has followed families affected by major disasters including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the flooding of New Orleans, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The center has also worked with officials following the devastating tornadoes that struck Joplin, Missouri.
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. Ellen Schenk, M.P.H., is currently a Fellow with both the Office of Emergency Medical Services with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
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Dr. Slatin's research has addressed health and safety training evaluation, occupational health disparities, and the political economy of the work environment.
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Ursano, M.D., is widely published in the areas of posttraumatic stress disorder and public health planning for the psychological effects of terrorism, bioterrorism, traumatic events, and disasters including war.
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His research has focused on the social and multidisciplinary aspects of natural, technological, and human-induced disasters. Specifically, he has studied such topics as local emergency management capabilities and response, police and fire planning and response to disasters, search and rescue and the delivery of emergency medical services, mass media coverage of disasters, warning systems and public response, factors related to local community recovery success, and disaster beliefs and emergency planning.
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He is Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Senior Advisor in the Division of Global Health & Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital. He created and led the nation's Medical Reserve Corps, which presently has more than 200,000 volunteers.
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