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Appendix A: Committee Member, Staff, and Community Liaison Biographies
Pages 168-184

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From page 168...
... Task Force on Community Preventive Services; chairs the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; and is a member of the National Academies' Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity. He is the past chair of the U.S.
From page 169...
... Dr. Bell is currently the co–principal investigator of two cohort studies: the Upstate KIDS study, which follows more than 6,000 children to identify potential risk factors for developmental health effects, and the Health Study of New York State Communities Exposed to PFAS Contaminated Drinking Water, funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry as one of seven sites participating in the Multi-site PFAS Health Study.
From page 170...
... Dr. Hoppin is currently leading a National Institutes of Health–funded study of PFAS exposures in the Cape Fear River basin, as well as a study evaluating the impact of pesticide exposure to residents in the banana-growing region of Costa Rica.
From page 171...
... She is also the PI of a study evaluating the effects of PFAS exposure on maternal cardiometabolic health across the reproductive life course within the Project Viva pregnancy/birth cohort.
From page 172...
... Dr. Vieira collaborated on the C-8 Health Project, contributing to several health and exposure studies, and is currently an investigator on the UC Irvine PFAS Health Study, part of a multisite study sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
From page 173...
... in toxicological sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health. Kaley Beins, M.P.H., is a program officer with the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology within the Division on Earth and Life Studies at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
From page 174...
... After working to gather health data in her community, Ms. Allen co-authored an article in the journal Environmental Health titled "Making the Invisible Visible: Results of a Community-Led Health Survey following PFAS Contamination of Drinking Water in Merrimack, New Hampshire." Additionally, she co-founded and continues to serve in leadership of the National PFAS Contamination Coalition, composed of community members from across the nation working together to attain mutual federal needs.
From page 175...
... Stel Bailey is the chief executive director of Fight For Zero and the co-facilitator of the National PFAS Contamination Coalition, is certified in wildlife monitoring, and is a content administrator behind several online publications. Her life took a dramatic turn in 2013 when she and her father, brother, and uncle, as well as the family dog, were diagnosed with cancer.
From page 176...
... Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health, investigating PFAS exposure and immunotoxicity for communities impacted by drinking water contamination.
From page 177...
... She is a tireless advocate for clean water, spending her free time educating the public on the dangers of PFAS and other toxins in drinking water and the environment.
From page 178...
... Hope Grosse is the co-founder of Buxmont Coalition for Safer Water and serves on the National PFAS Contamination Coalition, working to establish enforceable federal and state drinking water standards for this chemical class. She acts as the community liaison for outreach and leads social media efforts, updating residents about PFAS water contamination and related issues.
From page 179...
... in applied mathematics and statistics from Boston University. Rainer Lohmann, Ph.D., is a professor of oceanography and the director of the University of Rhode Island Superfund Research Center, where he and his group conduct research into the sources, transport, and bioaccumulation of anthropogenic pollutants, often relying on the use of passive samplers.
From page 180...
... Laura Olah is the executive director and the co-founder of Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, a community-based group that organized in 1990 when the community learned that a plume of cancercausing chemicals had poisoned private drinking water wells near Wisconsin's Badger Army Ammunition Plant. A member of the Sokaogon Ojibwa Community Mole Lake Band, Ms.
From page 181...
... being used above the Cape Cod's vulnerable sole source aquifer. The focus of GreenCAPE's work is the community's exposure to PFAS via the public drinking water system and other as-yet-unidentified sources.
From page 182...
... Her research focuses on characterizing PFAS exposures from drinking water, diet, and consumer products; understanding health effects associated with PFAS; investigating socioeconomic disparities in exposures to drinking water contaminants; and working with communities to develop research studies and resources to address their concerns.
From page 183...
... . He is the director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at BCH, directing its fellowship training program in pediatric environmental health and the Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.
From page 184...
... She also participates in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' Health Study as a stakeholder for both the state PFAS study and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Multisite PFAS Study.


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