Collegium Ramazzini

Aaron Earl Blair

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Abdullah Rozaini

Malaysia

Agay-Shay Keren

Israel

Albin Maria

Sweden

Amster Yonah

Israel

Anderson Henry A.

United States of America (USA)

Dr. Anderson received his M.D. degree in 1972 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was certified in 1977 by the American Board of Preventive Medicine with a sub-specialty in occupational and environmental medicine and in 1983 became a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He holds adjunct professorships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Population Health Sciences, and the University of Wisconsin Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Human Studies. In November 2016 he retired from his positions as Wisconsin State Environmental and Occupational Disease Epidemiologist, and Chief Medical Officer in the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Department of Health Services which he held since 1980. Dr. Anderson currently serves on the USEPA Science Advisory Board, Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee. He was chair of the Environmental Health Committee of the USEPA Science Advisory Board, served on the USEPA SAB Executive Committee and is past Chair of the Board of Scientific Councilors for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. He has served on five National Academies of Science Committees and is currently on the NAS Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. He serves on the Presidential Advisory Board on Radiation Worker Compensation. Dr. Anderson is a fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member and past president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), and a member of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Environmental Health Policy Committee. He is associate editor of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. His 46 years of public health practice and scientific research began with an article about his 1971 experiences in Afghanistan during his 3rd year of medical school. Since then he has contributed over 275 peer reviewed articles to help advance public health broadly and specifically occupational and environmental medicine.

Andrade Rivas Federico

Canada

Andrews John S. Jr.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Since May 1998, Dr. John Andrews has been the Assistant Senior Vice President for Medical Center and Director, University Health Services at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is responsible for the University's compliance with environmental and radiation regulations, directing the employee and student health clinics, and evaluating workers with work-related injuries and illnesses. Prior to working at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Andrews served for 20 years as a Commissioned Corps physician in the U.S. Public Health Service, both at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). He is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Occupational Medicine, and Board eligible in Infectious Disease. He has experience in the areas of biological agents, chemical agents, disasters, and public health programs. While in the Public Health Service, Dr. Andrews assisted with smallpox irradication in Bangladesh and Somalia. He taught epidemiology in Egypt and Kuwait. While assigned to the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Dr. Andrews investigated cases of leprosy, polio, foodborne illness, and suspected environmental illnesses. While assigned to the Minnesota Department of Health he investigated anthrax in cattle; Western, Eastern, and California equine encephalitis; hepatitis; psittacosis, and numerous foodborne outbreaks. During Dr. Andrews' Geographic Medicine fellowship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation's "Great neglected Diseases Program," he carried out laboratory studies on giardia. From 1985 - 1989, when he began working at the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC, Dr. Andrews was involved with the investigation of adverse human health effects due to chemical exposures including dioxin and pesticides. When he worked for ATSDR from 1989 - 1998 as the Associate Administrator for Science, he was extensively involved the study of hazardous chemical wastes including a suspected radiation-associated brain cancer cluster, a suspected radiation-associated thyroid cancer, and numerous studies of persons living near hazardous waste sites. His involvement in disasters and large public health field activities includes being on duty in the Boston City Hospital Emergency Room when an airliner crashed at the Logan airport in 1973; assessing the post-Hurricane Allen situation in Jamaica with Ministry of Health personnel in 1980; assessing the public health situation in Grenada during the U.S. interdiction in 1983; serving as Chief Public Health Officer for a 13-member PHS team responsible for preventing unnecessary illness and disease for 30,000 scouts and 50,00 visitors at the 1989 and 1993 National Scout Jamborees; being attached to the 352 Civil Affairs Command during the Gulf War to plan for the restoration of public health functions in Kuwait; leading an interagency work group to determine public health activities that the U.S. believed to be needed in Kuwait. Dr. Andrews has served on the Risk Assessment Subcommittee of the Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources; the Commissioned Corps Readiness Force Board; Academic Advisory Council, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Selection Board for the Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives; Chair of the Interagency Coordinating Committee for the National Human Exposure Survey; Committee on Ethics and Standards of Practice of the American College of Epidemiology; Los Alamos Cancer Study Steering Committee; Federal Interagency Task Force on Human Exposure. He is a faculty member of Emory University and Mercer University and he has a clinical appointment at the Emory Clinic. He has reviewed articles for the Archives of Environmental Health, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. He is a member of multiple professional organizations and a fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and Collegium Ramazzini.

Anwar Wagida A.

Egypt

Emeritus

Aragon Aurora

Nicaragua

Ashford Nicolas A.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Assennato Giorgio

Italy

Emeritus

Au William W.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Balmes John

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Barrett J. Carl

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Bartrem Casey

United States of America (USA)

Baur Xaver

Germany

Emeritus

Belpoggi Fiorella

Italy

Fiorella Belpoggi is the Emerita Scientific Director of the Ramazzini Institute, where she served since 1981 up to 2022. She is Member of the Executive Council of the Collegium Ramazzini and Member of the Scientific Committee of ISDE-Italia Doctors for Environment. Her research interests include short and long term toxicity studies on chemicals and physical agents: food additives, solvents, packaging plastics, pesticides, hormones and prescription drugs, vitamins, fuels constituents and additives, endocrine disruptors, asbestos and its substitutes, herbs. gamma radiation, electromagnetic fields from power lines (ELFEMF) and radio base stations RFR/MW. Dr. Belpoggi has authored more than 160 publications published on peer reviewed journals. She is an Invited Lecturer of Industrial and Environmental Carcinogenesis at different Public Health Schools and Universities in Italy. She was the 2007 recipient of the Ramazzini Award, conferred each year by the Mayor of Carpi, Italy, to scientists deemed by the Collegium Ramazzini to have made outstanding contributions to furthering the aims of Bernardino Ramazzini in safeguarding public health; she was selected for different honours in Italy in recognition for her work in defence of the environmental and occupational health. She was invited as expert to meetings on the evaluation and safety of chemicals at the European Parliament in Brussels, at the EU DGEnvi in Brussels, at the EU DGSanco in Brussels, at the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) in Parma and, as temporary advisor, at WHO in Bonn. She was also invited as expert for experimental in vivo studies at IARC/WHO for the IARC Monograph 120 on Benzene, for the IARC Monograph 125 and 130 on different chemicals and she was among the experts who defined the IARC priorities 2019-2024. She produced the Report for Members and staff of the European Parliament as background material to assist them in their parliamentary work on “5G and Health”. STOA, Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (2021).She also served as expert witness in trials for different cases concerning environmental and occupational diseases, in Italy and once in the USA.

Benedetto Terracini

Italy

Emeritus

Berman Tamar

Israel

Bernard David Goldstein

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Bero Lisa

United States of America (USA)

Lisa Bero, Ph.D. is an international leader in research integrity, commercial determinants of health and evidence synthesis. She is the Senior Editor, Research Integrity for the Cochrane Library where she is initiating Cochrane’s research program on research integrity. She is also Public Health and Health System Network Senior Editor and was Co-Chair of the Cochrane Governing Board 2014-18. Since July 1, 2020 she is Professor, Medicine and Public Health and Chief Scientist, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. From 2014 to 2020, Professor Bero was Chair of Health Outcomes at the Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, where she founded the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative Research Group with nodes on Bias, Evidence Synthesis and Pharmaceutical Policy. Lisa trained in pharmacology and health policy. She was Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies and Dept Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) from 1991-2014. She directs a multidisciplinary team whose primary focus is on ways to produce, synthesize and promote the translation of rigorous and unbiased evidence into health policy and practice. Lisa specializes in studying the quality, use and implications of research for healthcare and health policy, and has both collaborated with and studied as research subjects such diverse groups as policymakers, journalists, consumers, and researchers themselves. She pioneered the development of qualitative and quantitative methods (called "meta-research") for measuring bias in the design, conduct and dissemination of both human and animal research on pharmaceuticals, tobacco, chemicals and complex public health interventions. Lisa has a particular interest in biases related to research sponsorship and investigator conflicts of interest. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles.

Birnbaum Linda

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Blanc Paul D.

United States of America (USA)

Boden Leslie

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Böse-O'Reilly Stephan

Germany

Boyd Barr Dana

United States of America (USA)

Brandi Giovanni

Italy

Brazier Jill Victoria

Italy

Honorary Member

Breysse Patrick N.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Bucher John

United States of America (USA)

Bulat Petar

Serbia

Emeritus

Born on August 9, 1961, in Belgrade. The Medical Faculty in Belgrade finished in January 1986 with an average grade of 9.28. He defended his master's thesis in 1991 at the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies at the University of Belgrade. His doctoral dissertation he defended at the Medical Faculty in Belgrade in 1994. In 1992, he earned the degree of Occupational health specialist at the Medical Faculty in Belgrade and eight years later he earned a super specialist degree in Occupational toxicology, also at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. In addition to his professional development in the country, he did post-doctoral studies in Ghent (Belgium). His teaching career started in 1989 at University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine as an assistant trainee within the Occupational Health chair. He became an assistant in 1992 and an assistant professor in 1995. Associate professor in Occupational health, he became in 2000. Since March 2009 he is a full professor of Occupational Health. He was Chair of Occupational Health in the period from 2001-2006 and 2009-2012. In the period October 2012-2018 he has been working as a Vice-Dean for clinical teaching at the Medical Faculty in Belgrade. From October 2018 till October 2021, he held the position of Vice-Rector responsible for education at University of Belgrade. In parallel with his university career, he started his professional career, starting with as a clinical doctor at the Institute of Occupational Health in 1989, through an occupational health specialist doctor in 1992, head of the Department of Occupational Toxicology from 1995 to 2009, to the Assistant Director of the Institute of Occupational Health from 2001 to 2009. From May 2011 to October 2012, he served as Assistant Minister of Health responsible for International Cooperation and European Integration. He is a member of the National Council for Safety and Health at Work from 2006, as well as the Board of the International Association of Rural Health from 2004, Vice President from 2022. Board Member of European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine from 2003 to 2015 and from 2018, Vice President from 2006 to 2015 and from 2022. Member of the Collegium Ramazzini from 2001.

Caban-Martinez Alberto

United States of America (USA)

Caldwell Jane C.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Casteleyn Ludwine

Belgium

Ludwine Casteleyn is Doctor in Medicine, Master in Occupational Medicine and Hygiene, Master of Laws in Social Law, and certified in Radiation Protection. She combines work as researcher at the Center for Human Genetics of the University of Leuven with work as occupational health physician for federal civil servants. Her scientific work focuses on the interaction between genetic factors and occupational / environmental exposure, and on ethics and data protection. Subsequent positions as occupational physician in several plants, advisor to the European Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety, coordinator and participant in national and European scientific projects, government advisor for the Flemish Health and environment programme, allowed her to develop her interest in Human Biomarkers, both in research and in public health surveillance, and in particular on the translation of results in policy support and evaluation. She had a key role in the development of a European programme for human biomonitoring in environmental health by chairing the EU Technical Working Group on Human Biomonitoring for Children and leading the related COPHES project. She collaborated with the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health on the development of health related indicators and data collection methods for monitoring the European Environment and Health Process. She serves on the Scientific Committee of Esteban, the French �Etude de sant� sur l�environnement, la biosurveillance, l�activit� physique et la nutrition� and on the advisory board of several scientific projects. She is member of the Sectoral Committee of Social Security and Health of the Belgian Data Protection Authority and treasurer of the board of the Flemish branch of the IPPNW, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 62 countries, who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Castleman Barry

United States of America (USA)

Chaiear Naesinee

Thailand

Chandrasekar Sashikala

India

Chen Jia

United States of America (USA)

Chen Pau-Chung

Taiwan

In 1986, Dr. Pau-Chung Chen graduated from Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan with a degree in medicine. He then went on to study environmental and occupational medicine at the Institute of Public Health at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine between 1988-1990. In 1991-1995, he earned his MSc and PhD degrees in Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Currently, Dr. Chen holds the position of Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the National Taiwan University College of Public Health, as well as being a Distinguished Investigator and Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Health Research Institutes. He has dedicated over 30 years to the field of environmental and occupational health sciences and has published over 400 scientific articles. He received the Outstanding Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2015 and 2020, an Outstanding Alumni Award from Kaohsiung Medical University in 2018, and has been listed in the world's top 2% scientists since 2019. Dr. Chen served as the chair of the Scientific Committee on Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace (RHICOH) and the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) from 2012-2018. He was also the first chair of the Birth Cohort Consortium of Asia (BiCCA) from 2012-2014. In 2013-2014, he served as an expert witness in the class action of the former workers of Taiwan RCA, and gave oral testimony in court for 7 days, totaling nearly 50 hours. In 2020, he received the National Occupational Safety and Health Award - Personal Contribution Award from the Ministry of Labor. He also served as President of the Taiwan Public Health Association from 2017-2022 and under his tenure, Taiwan became the first in Asia to pass the Public Health Specialists Act in 2020.

Cheong Hae Kwan

South Korea

Prof. Hae-Kwan Cheong is a professor of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea, since 2005. He is an environmental epidemiologist and his main area of research encompasses the effect of the local and global environment on human health including climate change and health, especially on infectious diseases; air pollution and health; epidemiology of neurodegenerative disorders; and various issues on environmental and occupational health, including humidifier disinfectants and oil spill and health. He began his professional career as a family physician, then from the late 1980s, his main focus moved into environmental and occupational health, when many environmental and occupational health issues vigorously arising from rapid economic development in Korea. He worked actively on the survey and preventive action of the occupational and environmental health issues. He graduated College of Medicine, Seoul National University in 1982, and obtained his Doctorate from Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University. He worked at Dongguk University for 13 years and moved to Sungkyunkwan University. He stayed at Harvard School of Public Health and Boston University Medical School as a visiting scholar for one year in 1998. He stayed for six months in the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health in 2013. Since 2005, he became one of the key members of environmental epidemiologists in Korea and actively worked on establishing a National Action Plan on the environmental health of Korea. He worked on the oil spill and health issues since the burst of the Hebei Spirit oil spill on the western coast of Korea, the biggest oil spill in Korean water. He served as a chair of the National Committee for the Countermeasure on the Air Pollution and member of the National Committee on Environmental Health, both by the Ministry of Environment. He had been a chair of the Korean Society of Environmental Health and Toxicology from January 2010 to December 2011, hosting body of ISEE 2010 in Seoul, Korea. He chaired the Korean Society of Epidemiology between 2016 and 2018 and chaired Korean Forum for Climate Change and Health between 2015 and 2017. He published more than 126 peer-reviewed scientific papers since 1980. Internationally, he has been working as an expert consultant of Western Pacific Regional Office of World Health Organization on the series of projects on the Climate Change and Health in vulnerable countries since 2009 and has been working on the climate change and health issues in Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, and Pacific Island Countries. The Western Pacific region represents a wide range of diversity on the climate system from continental to subtropical and Pacific oceanic systems. He is working on the report on climate change and health on the Western Pacific countries, on which scientific evidence of climate change and health is mostly lacking. His work on these countries provided a firm basis on the effect of the local and regional climate systems on the health of the vulnerable populations in these countries.

Cherniack Martin G.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Christiani David

United States of America (USA)

Professor David C. Christiani is the Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics and Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology at Harvard University. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director, Harvard Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health and Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned his M.D. in 1976 at Tufts University, his M.S. in 1981 at the Harvard School of Public Health and his M.P.H. in 1980 at the Harvard School of Public Health. His major research interests are occupational, environmental and molecular epidemiology. He has been interested in studying the impact of exposures to various pollutants on health and the interactions between host factors (genetic and acquired susceptibility), and environmental exposures in producing acute and chronic diseases. This research is part of an emerging field known as molecular epidemiology. He has been active in developing new methods for assessing health effects after exposure to pollutants and has a very active interest in international occupational and environmental health studies. In collaboration with other investigators in his school, he has developed new biologic markers used in examination of pollutant-induced diseases such as lung cancer, bladder cancer, skin cancer and upper respiratory-tract inflammation. For example, he has led a large multidisciplinary study of the molecular and genetic analysis of lung cancer with specific attention towards genetic susceptibility to lung cancer and genetic-environmental interactions, using PCR-based methods to determine genetic traits and mutations, as well as molecular methods to detect DNA adducts. This work has been a model for examining gene-environmental interactions for cancer development. He has also led a project that examines respiratory effects of exposure to respiratory irritants contained in soot from fossil-fuel boilers. The study involves an epidemiologic evaluation of the acute respiratory effects of exposure as well as a detailed investigation including examination of molecular markers in nasal fluid and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in exposed workers and controls. In 2000, he also began to study the molecular epidemiology of acute lung injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), a disorder that occurs after a toxic insult to the lung (e.g., sepsis, smoke inhalation, and SARS). The syndrome has a high associated mortality, and little is known to prevent development. In this project he is in collaboration with MGH collaborators. They will examine the role of genetic susceptibility in the development of ARDS after a toxic exposure. He has led a 40-year longitudinal study of respiratory disease in cotton-textile workers in Shanghai, China. The objectives of the study include determining the rate of loss in lung function among cotton dust-exposed workers at various levels of dust exposure and evaluating the relationship of exposure to gram-negative bacterial endotoxin and acute and chronic lung disease. They have expanded this study to include an assessment of relevant genetic factors, and an examination of reproductive effects of shift work and ergonomic factors at work as well as the exposures noted above. He has enjoyed conducting occupational-health research on three continents: Asia, Africa, and North America. He has developed a wide network of collaboratives and contacts as they undertake new studies of the reproductive effects of exposure to chemicals (China), arsenic exposure and bladder and skin cancer (Taiwan and Bangladesh), exposure to indoor combustion products in respiratory disease (Central America), petrochemical exposures, brain neoplasms and leukemia in Asia (Taiwan), and respiratory effects of paraquat exposure (Africa). An exciting aspect of the international work is in methodological work, specifically, the development and adaptation of epidemiologic and laboratory techniques to the conditions of the industrializing world. The potential for effective interventions for disease prevention make this work particularly rewarding.

Claudio Luz

United States of America (USA)

Cocco Pierluigi

United Kingdom (UK)

Cogliano Vincent

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Comba Pietro

Italy

Corra Lilian

Argentina

Craft Elena

United States of America (USA)

Cranor Carl F.

United States of America (USA)

Dada Martins

Netherlands

Dargan Paul I

Great Britain

Davis Devra

United States of America (USA)

Davis Letitia K.

United States of America (USA)

Letitia K. Davis is Director of the Occupational Health Surveillance Program in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health where she has worked for over 30 years to develop and implement state based surveillance systems for work-related illnesses and injuries. She has overseen the formation of a healthcare provider reporting system for occupational disease, the Massachusetts Occupational Lead Registry, a comprehensive surveillance system for fatal occupational injuries, the Massachusetts Sharps Injury Surveillance System, a surveillance system for work-related asthma, and a model surveillance system for work-related injuries to young workers. Additionally, she has overseen implementation of case based surveillance and follow-up of work-related amputations, burns and acute chemical poisonings. She has conducted numerous surveillance research studies exploring use of a wide range of public health data sources including electronic health records, workers� compensation data, poison control records, emergency department data, and health surveys for occupational health surveillance. She has a particular interest in addressing the occupational health and safety concerns of vulnerable workers and has completed a project incorporating occupational information in the electronic record systems of community health centers to improve documentation of occupational health needs of underserved worker populations. Dr. Davis is also responsible for the development of prevention programs to address identified occupational health problems and advises the Department leadership on matters of occupational health policy. From 1998-1915, Dr. Davis was a lead consultant in occupational health to the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and has played a leadership role nationally in the effort to integrate occupational health into public health practice at the state level. She is a past member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and is a current member of Member, National Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health. Dr. Davis serves as adjunct faculty of the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. She received her doctorate in Occupational Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1983. Dr. Davis is also responsible for the development of prevention programs to address identified occupational health problems and advises the Department leadership on matters of occupational health policy. Under her leadership, occupational health surveillance findings have been used to promote regulatory action, legislative changes, state-wide educational initiatives and technological solutions to reduce workplace risks.

De Matteis Sara

Italy

De Rosa Christopher T.

United States of America (USA)

Dr. Christopher Thomas De Rosa is the Director for Toxicology and Risk Analysis for the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances an Disease Registry. Previously he served as the Director of the Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) from 1991-2007. Prior to his selection as Division Director, Dr. De Rosa was the Deputy Associate Administrator for Science, also at ATSDR. Before coming to ATSDR, Dr. De Rosa worked with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1984 to 1991. While with the EPA, Dr. De Rosa served in a number of capacities, including the Acting Director of Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office (ECAO), Group Leader, and Acting Branch Chief and Branch Chief of the Chemical Mixtures Assessment Branch of ECAO. After receiving his M.S. in Ecology and Ph.D. in biology from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1976, Dr. De Rosa served as an Instructor and then Assistant Professor of biology at the University of Virginia until 1980, when he joined ECAO due to a growing interest in the applied aspects of ecologic and environmental health research. From 1982 to 1984 he returned to teaching and research as Assistant Professor of botany and zoology at the University of Maine. He has been the recipient of the U.S.E.P.A. Bronze Medal four times and has served as a consultant to EPA, the State Department, NASA, DoE and DoD, NATO, PAHO, WHO and a range of foreign governments. He is author/co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications. His current professional interests are centered on the interface of environmental health science and science policy, with emphasis on risk analysis as a synthetic construct for the risk assessment and disease prevention paradigms. Dr. De Rosa is a member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the Ecological Society of America, the American College of Toxicology, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Research Society of North America. He is an elected fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini and a credentialed member of the Senior Biomedical Research Service (ATSDR/CDC) from 1998-2008 when he was appointed as a Distinguished Consultant.

Degli Esposti Davide

Italy

Dement John M.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Dr. John M. Dement is a Professor Emeritus in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Duke University Medical Center. He also is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. Dr. Dement is certified in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial Hygiene and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, an M.S. in Industrial Hygiene from the Harvard University, School of Public Health, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Hygiene/Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. Prior joining the Duke faculty in 1993 Dr. Dement served in the U.S. Public Health Service for 22 years where he was employed in various research and management positions by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He has authored well over 150 peer-reviewed publications concerned with a with a broad spectrum of occupational health and safety issues including exposure assessment methods for epidemiological studies, occupational respiratory diseases, occupational cancers, occupational injury epidemiology, and the development and implementation of occupational health and safety surveillance systems. Dr. Dement has served on numerous national and international panels and committees convened by governmental organizations, the World Health Organization, the Institution of Medicine, labor organizations, and industry groups. He served on the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors 1994-2003 and ACGIH Board of Directors 1987-1990, serving as Chair in 1989. Dr. Dement was Editor-in Chief of the ACGIH journal Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 1993-1998. Current research interests include occupational lung diseases, occupational carcinogens, and exposure assessment methods for epidemiological studies.

Di Ciaula Agostinó

Italy

Dobbin R. Denny

United States of America (USA)

Dodič Fikfak Metoda

Slovenia

Duffy Richard M.

United States of America (USA)

Mr. Duffy (Rich) has been involved with worker occupational health and safety issues for over 45 years. In January 2013, he retired from the International Association of Fire Fighters after 35 years of service. At the IAFF, he was responsible for the all the IAFF’s activities addressing occupational medicine, safety and health. He has been involved in numerous committees involving fire fighters' and other workers’ safety and health, including those of the federal government, state governments, the NFPA, the ANSI and the International Standards Organization. He provides technical assistance on fire fighters health and safety issues and is internationally recognized as a fire fighters health and safety expert. He has authored numerous books, manuals and articles on worker occupational health and safety issues. He has been actively involved in the addressing fire department deployment and staffing as well as the development of protective clothing and equipment for fire fighters and other workers. He served as the Chairman of the NFPA Technical Correlating Committee for Fire Service Protective Clothing and Equipment. He served as the chair of the TCC and the former Technical Committee on Fire Service Protective Clothing and equipment for over 20 years. He also served as the Secretary of the NFPA Technical Committee for Career Fire Service Deployment and Organization. He also served as a member on the NFPA Fire Service Occupational Safety and Health Committee and the NFPA Technical Committee on Hazardous Materials Response Personnel. He directed the NASA/FEMA program Project FIRES (Firefighters Integrated Response Equipment System), and all activities towards the development of state-of-the-art protective clothing and equipment, including the management of the IAFF initiative Project HEROES (Homeland Emergency Response Operational and Equipment Systems) and the Light Weight Respirator Program. He continues to serve on a number of federal programs, including the U.S. Interagency Board for Standardization and Interoperability (IAB) and the Department of Homeland Security’s First Responder Group. Mr. Duffy (Rich) holds Bachelor of Science degrees in environmental health and in business management and a Master of Science degree in occupational and environmental health sciences.

Eastmond David A.

United States of America (USA)

Eduardo Algranti

Brazil

Ellingsen Dag G.

Norway

Englund Anders

Sweden

Emeritus

Eskenazi Brenda

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Etzel Ruth Ann

Switzerland

Ruth A. Etzel, M.D., Ph.D. is Senior Officer for Environmental Health Research in the Department of Public Health and Environment at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. She completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin and residencies in Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. After completing a pediatric residency, Dr. Etzel was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in Chapel Hill, and received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in 1985. While there, she became very interested in studying the health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke among infants. With Dr. Robert Greenberg, she co-authored the first study to use cotinine as a biological marker of exposure to tobacco smoke in children. In the twenty five years since that study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, she has been influential in working to make cotinine a standard method for assessing tobacco exposure in epidemiological studies. She has also been a strong leader in national and international efforts to reduce children´s exposure to tobacco smoke, serving as chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), dedicated to improving child health by eliminating children's exposure to tobacco and secondhand smoke. As a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service, Dr. Etzel served in numerous public-sector leadership positions including: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Founding Chief of the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch), Department of Agriculture (Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Risk Assessment) and Indian Health Service (Research Director at the Alaska Native Medical Center). She is a courageous leader in bringing environmental risks to children to public attention and working collaboratively towards solutions. In 1989, after a single case of acrodynia was identified in a US child who was exposed to mercury vapor inside a newly-painted house, she coordinated a study to assess the extent of the mercury exposure and then made a compelling case to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the removal of mercury from latex paints. In response, the EPA quickly reached an agreement with the US paint companies to stop the addition of mercury compounds to interior latex paints. Dr. Etzel is the founding editor of the popular AAP manual Pediatric Environmental Health, of which a 3rd edition will be published in 2011. This influential book has helped to train hundreds of clinicians who care for children about how to recognize, diagnose, treat and prevent illness in children from hazards in the environment. She serves on the adjunct faculty at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. In addition to being board-certified in Pediatrics, Dr. Etzel is also board-certified in Preventive Medicine and served for 9 years on the American Board of Preventive Medicine. She was a member of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s First Expert Panel on the Management of Asthma and the Department of Defense Science Board Task Force on Gulf War Heath Effects. Dr. Etzel has received numerous awards, including the 2007 Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award from US Environmental Protection Agency, the Distinguished Service Award from the US Public Health Service, the Don C. Mackel Memorial Award from CDC, the Arthur S. Flemming Award, and the Clinical Society Award from the US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association for her discovery of the association between infant pulmonary hemorrhage and exposure to toxigenic molds. Her epidemiologic research interests include identifying the environmental precipitants of asthma attacks and studying the health effects of exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants.

Falk Henry

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Filippini Tommaso

Italy

Finkelman Jacobo

Mexico

Emeritus

Finkelstein Yoram

Israel

Emeritus

Fischbein S. Alf

Israel

Emeritus

Flores Raja M. MD

United States of America (USA)

Dr. Raja M. Flores is the Chairman for the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Steven and Ann Ames Professor in Thoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Flores’ is a recognized leader in the field of Thoracic Surgery for his pioneering efforts in the treatment of mesothelioma. He has established VATS lobectomy, a minimally invasive approach using three small incisions, as the gold standard in the surgical treatment of lung cancer. He published two sentinel studies validating its oncological effectiveness by demonstrating equivalent survival and recurrence rates with fewer complications and shorter hospital stays when compared to standard thoracotomy. Dr. Flores implemented the current program for this procedure at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was a lead investigator in a multicenter trial of neoadjuvant alimta/cisplatin, extrapleural pneumonectomy, and high-dose radiation which is designed to improve outcomes. Dr. Flores currently has one of the largest VATS lobectomy experiences in the world. He has published this data and has presented it at numerous national and international meetings. Dr. Flores’ additional research interests are based on numerous past projects relating to the multimodality management of malignant pleural mesothelioma, as well as innovative surgical techniques in minimally invasive thoracic surgery for lung cancer. He has led a number of major studies, including clinical trials of neoadjuvant gemcitabine and cisplatin followed by extrapleural pneumonectomy and high dose radiation. Dr. Flores is the Principle Investigator of the Libby Epidemiology Research Program, a $4.8 million RO1 grant funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). The major goals of the research are to address questions regarding the health consequences of asbestos exposure (Libby Amphibole). After earning an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from New York University, Dr. Flores attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, receiving his Medical Degree in 1992. He then spent five years at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center pursuing his General Surgery Internship and General Surgery Residency. He then completed a Thoracic Oncology Clinical Research Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana Faber Cancer Institute/CALGB in Boston, and his Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He also received a Masters in Biostatistics from Columbia University. Dr. Flores is a member of numerous medical and surgical societies and serves on several editorial boards.

Fobil Julius

Ghana

Forastiere Francesco

Italy

Francesco Forastiere, MD, PhD, is an environmental epidemiologist who currently serves as a visiting professor at Imperial College, London, in the Environmental Research Group. He has worked as a public health officer for almost four decades in the Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service, Rome, dealing with environmental and occupational exposures and their impacts on health. With a medical background in respiratory and occupational medicine, a Master of Science in Epidemiology from LSHTM, London, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Linkoping, Sweden, he has studied the health effects of numerous environmental and occupational exposures. He has been the principal investigator in several EC-funded projects since the Fourth Framework Programme up to the most recent Horizon initiatives. Francesco Forastiere has authored or co-authored over 600 full papers in peer-reviewed scientific literature. He has served as a temporary adviser for WHO/Geneva/Bonn on several occasions and has contributed to the WHO Air Quality Guidelines in 2005 and the updates published in September 2021. He has also been a member of three working groups in Lyon at IARC for the evaluation of some chemicals (vol. 54, 1992), air pollution (Vol. 109, 2013), and some organophosphate insecticides and herbicides (Vol.112, 2015). In addition, he has worked as a consultant for the Health Effects Institute in the USA, performing a systematic review of the health effects of traffic-related air pollution published in 2022. He is the Chief Editor of the Italian Journal of Epidemiology (Epidemiologia & Prevenzione) and an Associate Editor of Environmental Health. He has focused on applying innovative scientific research methods, including health impact assessment, to address various public health issues such as air pollution, radon, waste disposal, occupational exposure to silica and asbestos, environmental tobacco smoke, and Covid-19. His contributions to the field of air quality and health have been invaluable, and several organizations have recognized his expertise. In recognition of his sustained and outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of environmental epidemiology, he was awarded the "John Goldsmith Award" by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in 2022 and by the “Chair ERS Award” from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in 2023.

Franco Giuliano

Italy

Emeritus

Giuliano Franco He is a MD, specialist in Internal Medicine, in Cardiology and in Occupational Medicine. After his studies under the distinguished guide of Prof. Salvatore Maugeri as Assistant Professor (1972-1982) and Associate Professor of Industrial Toxicology and Occupational Medicine in the Institute of Occupational Medicine of the University of Pavia, in 1993 he was appointed at the Chair of Occupational Medicine of the University of Modena - School of Medicine. Presently he serves as Full Professor of Occupational Health of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Occupational Health Unit and Consultant of Occupational health in the Policlinico Hospital of Modena - and Director of the Postgraduate School of Occupational Health of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Editor of the Giornale italiano di Medicina del lavoro (1979-2001), Member of the Editorial Panel of Occupational Medicine (1991-...), Member of the Board of theEuropean Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (1991-1998), Member of the Editorial Board of the Archives of Chest Diseases (1991-2001), President of the Sezione Emiliano-Romagnola della Società Italiana di Medicina del lavoro e Igiene industriale (1993-1999), Member of the Editorial Board of the Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (1994-...), Member of the Board of the Associazione universitaria di Medicina del lavoro “Bernardino Ramazzini” (1994-2002), Member of the ICOH Committee on Education and Training (1996-...), Member of the ICOH Committee on the History of Prevention of Occupational and Environmental Diseases (1996-...), Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians - London (1998-...), Member of the ICOH Committee on Health Service Research and Evaluation in Occupational health (2000-…)

Frank Arthur

United States of America (USA)

Fraumeni Joseph F. Jr.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Froneberg Brigitte

Germany

Emeritus

Frumkin Howard

United States of America (USA)

Howard Frumkin, a general internist and epidemiologist, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Public Health. His career has focused on health aspects of climate change, the built environment, nature contact, and sustainability. He has served as senior vice president at Trust for Public Land; head of the Our Planet, Our Health initiative at the Wellcome Trust in London; Dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health; Director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) at the CDC; and Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health, and Professor of Medicine, at Emory University. His current community and professional activities include serving on the Board of the Seattle Parks Foundation, on the Executive Committee of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, as lead author on the health chapter of The Nature Record, as chair of the National Academy of Medicine Committee on the Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions, on the Steering Committee of the Planetary Health Alliance, and on advisory committees to the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (Columbia University), the Harvard Center on Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health (George Mason University). He previously served on the Boards of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, the Bullitt Foundation, the U.S. Green Building Council, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the American Public Health Association, and the National Environmental Education Foundation. He is author or co-author of over 300 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his ten books include Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability (2nd Edition, 2022), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (4th edition, forthcoming 2026), Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves (2020), and Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene (2021). He was educated at Brown (A.B.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.), and Harvard (M.P.H. and Dr.P.H.). He is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Medicine. He is married to health journalist Joanne Silberner and has two children, Gabe, a labor lawyer, and Amara, a pediatrician.

Fucic Aleksandra

Croatia

Emeritus

Gagliardi Diana

Italy

Gaitens Joanna

United States of America (USA)

Gee David

United Kingdom (UK)

Emeritus

Giannasi Fernanda

Brazil

Emeritus

Fernanda Giannasi is a Civil and Safety and Health Engineer. She worked as a Labor Inspector for the Ministry of Labor and Employment for thirty years, acting as an expert advisor for the Labor Prosecutors Office (Federal Labor Public Ministry) as well the Asbestos Victims’ Solicitors Office. As a Federal Labor Inspector, she staunchly defended the public interest on workers’ safety and health and was pressured by the asbestos lobby in Brazil and Canada, and endured myriad pressures including persistent harassment, politically-motivated criminal charges, and even death threats. Since 2013, after retiring from government, she has served as an expert witness in judicial cases related to asbestos, nuclear and ionizing radiation and other toxic chemicals as Mercury, POP´s (Persistent Organic Pollutants) and Silica. She also led thousands of workers who have filed lawsuits against the asbestos industry. She is also the coordinator of the Virtual Citizen Ban Asbestos Network for Latin America and founder of the Brazilian Association of People Exposed to Asbestos (ABREA). Despite the adversity she has faced, Fernanda has been acknowledged with several national and international awards. In Brazil, she received awards from both the Regional Labor Court of Appeal (2nd level) and the Superior Labor Court (3rd level) with the Judiciary Order of Merit. In 2018 April, she won by the Faz Diferença (Make a Difference) Prize in the economics category presented by O Globo, one of the most important, respected, and powerful daily newspapers in the country. Giannasi was also awarded with the Diploma of Merit of the Regional Council of Engineering and Agronomy of São Paulo (Crea/SP) in 2022. Her awards abroad include: the Ray Sentes Award (Canada), the Rachel Lee Jung-Lim Award (South Korea), the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), as well as a recognition by the American Public Health Association (APHA) and Japan’s Tajiri Muneaki Memorial Fund. She is internationally renowned and highly respected for her effective and unflagging efforts to save the lives of those affected by asbestos. In 2017 November, her efforts to ban asbestos in Brazil as well the fight for Justice for the asbestos victims and their families came to fruition with the important decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) to ban asbestos across Brazil. This decision was ratified in February 2023 against many appeals presented by the asbestos industry which did not accept the decision to stop mining asbestos. For her contribution to the struggle against asbestos, including her leadership in the promotion of an asbestos-free Brazil and in broadening the rationale for supporting a worldwide ban on asbestos, Engineer Giannasi was awarded the Collegium Ramazzini’s 2018 award. In December 2022, Fernanda and members of ABREA created a monument in honor of asbestos victims in the city of Osasco, São Paulo state.

Giordano Antonio

United States of America (USA)

Professor Antonio Giordano at 26, while a post-doctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, made significant contributions to the field of cancer research. His work led to the recognition that an identical protein species occurs in complexes with both a virus and with the cell cycle regulatory kinase cdc2. Later, this protein species was identified as protein cyclin A, a substance that regulates cell cycle growth. This work helped to set the stage for subsequent discovery in several other laboratories. Dr. Giordano went on to discover Rb2/p130 in the early 1990s while serving as a member of Temple's School of Medicine faculty and as a researcher at the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology. Since that time, Giordano and SHRO researchers have established links between Rb2/p130 and its expression with the regression of cancer in the lungs, the aggression of cancer in the liver and ovaries, the effectiveness of drug therapies against breast cancer, and as a potential prognosticator of prostate cancer. Giordano also discovered Cdk9 and Cdk10, two protein kinases that must be activated to guarantee proper progression through the cell cycle. Research has subsequently shown that Cdk9 is a multifunctional protein that plays a critical role in cell differentiation, particularly in muscles, HIV transcription, and the inception of tumors. Recent research has focused on the role of Cdk9-55 in helping to regenerate muscle tissue in cases of muscle wasting from disease or aging. In July of 2009, Giordano was ranked third on the list of "Laboratory Heads by Number of Publications" on the Cell Cycle Registry, attesting the relevance at international levels of his work on cell cycle regulation. In 2004, Giordano discovered Novel Structure Proteins (NSPs), a new family of structure proteins with a possible role in nuclear dynamics during cell division. One form of the gene, the isoform NSP5a3a, is highly expressed in some tumor cell lines and could be very useful as a tumor marker. Isoforms from NSPs, a new family of genes could be involved in apoptosis or programmed cell death. Giordano also played a major role in studying the cyclin-dependent-kinase inhibitor p27 which serves as the prognosticator factor in cancer patients. Giordano's early investigation and findings on the cell cycle has contributed to a new series of drugs currently in clinical trials. In 2009, he was invited to write on this topic on Nature Reviews Drug Discovery in recognition of his role as a leading international researcher in this field HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT | In the past fewyears Giordano has devoted many efforts to the study of the relation between cancer and environmental pollution in the Italian region Campania. He was among the first to report an increased incidence of various tumor types in the population living close by sites of illegal toxic waste dumping. He signed up by over 650 researchers and people in various fields; and through many other no-profit activities. www.drantoniogiordano.com www.profantoniogiordano.com www.shro.org

Gobba Fabriziomaria

Italy

Emeritus

Gochfeld Michael

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Goldman Lynn

United States of America (USA)

Grandjean Philippe

Denmark

Groneberg, David A.

Germany

Groth David H.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Guo Yue-Liang Leon

Taiwan

Gupta Naresh

India

Honorary Member

Ha Le Thai

Vietnam

Habib Rima R.

Lebanon

Hanke Wojciech

Poland

Emeritus

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Harari Florencia

Sweden

Harari Homero

United States of America (USA)

Hardell Lennart

Sweden

Emeritus

Harington John S.

South Africa

Emeritus

Dr. John S. Harington, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, received his BSc and Hons BSc at Rhodes University, his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College, London and his DSc at the University of London, where he worked on the biological effects of silica dust and asbestos fibres, studies of experimental carcinogenesis and epidemiological and aetiological aspects of human cancer. In 1975 he was conferred Officier de I'Orde du Merite Social de Belgique by Prince Leopold de Croy-Soire of Belgium. In 1977 he received the A.G Oettle Memorial Medal and was proclaimed Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. From 1981 to 1986 he was Head of Cancer Res Unit, NCA and SAIMR. In 1984 he became Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini. From 1985 up to now he has been an Expert Witness for plaintiffs in personal injury and property damage and asbestos and silicosis-related litigation. From 1989 to 1993 he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Community Medicine, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, and in 1992 was nominated to the Council of the Mt. Sinai Medical School. Dr. Harington is interested in environmental and occupational cancer in all ethnic groups of southern Africa, particularly in the black populations, to which half of all 140 published papers have been devoted. his papers have given special attention to cancers of the oesophagus, liver, respiratory system, HIV and AIDS-related cancers and of those of the uterine cervix and female breast. With the cooperation of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa and the labour organisation, TEBA, Dr. Harrington has recently completed an unbroken 33-year study on some 30 cancers in 12 million man-years of black labor in the gold mines of South Africa. This huge total includes primarily guest workers from Mozambique and Lesotho and from all parts of South Africa and has been instructive in both spatial and temporal aspects. The group is now diverting their attention to the aetiolgy of an unusual hip disease in an isolated part of northern Kwa-Zulu Natal where 20% of the population is affected.

Harrison Robert J.

United States of America (USA)

Haryanto Budi

Indonesia

Hay Alastair

United Kingdom (UK)

Emeritus

Heinzow Birger G.J.

Germany

Emeritus

Henshaw Dennis

United Kingdom (UK)

Denis Henshaw is Scientific Director at Children with Cancer UK (CwCUK), the UK's largest charity devoted to the causes, prevention and treatment of cancer in children and young adults, and Emeritus Professor of Human Radiation Effects at the University of Bristol. Denis pioneered new methods for measuring natural alpha-radioactivity in the human body and under UK Medical Research Council (MRC) support studied the uptake and effects of naturally occurring alpha-radioactivity. In 1990 he published a link between domestic radon exposure and leukaemia incidence, since substantiated, notably in children. The findings led to work by others revealing genomic instability in cells irradiated with alpha-particles. Denis was an early pioneer of domestic radon monitoring and led an initiative to measure "hot" plutonium particles in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. His team showed that concentrations of the natural radionuclide 210Pb-supported 210Po in children's teeth across the UK exhibit correlations with both domestic radon levels and heavy traffic density. The latter testifies to the importance of the inhalation pathway to alpha-radionuclide accumulation in the skeleton and their radiation dose to bone marrow. In 1996 Denis began investigating corona ion emission from high voltage powerlines and their transport hundreds of metres away. These ions deposit their electric charge on airborne pollutant particles which when inhaled may have a higher probability of lung deposition. His team has published widely on this issue, developing sophisticated nano-particle spectrometers for measuring directly corona ion electrical charging of air pollution particles. A major spin-off is the measurement of the nano-particle component of vehicle exhaust pollution and how, following inhalation, such particles may reach all body organs, including the fetus. Denis has also published papers addressing how magnetic fields may affect the risk of childhood leukaemia and other illnesses, notably by melatonin and circadian rhythm disruption. Denis was a member of the UK Government Stakeholder Advisory Group for EMF, and the Ministry of Defence Independent Review Board on Depleted Uranium. He has acted as expert witness on matters of national and international concern. He has served as Board member and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Radiation Biology. Following his retirement in 2011 and a long association with the charity, Denis was appointed Scientific Director of CwCUK. He oversees the charity's non-clinical research grants. He has introduced a number of initiatives, including a 5-year Research Fellowship Programme and Research Workshops, which provide the opportunity for in-depth examination of specialist topics in the causes and treatment of childhood cancer. He has also chaired a number of the charity's major International Conferences, including in 2004, the first on the environmental causes of childhood leukaemia, for the first time producing a coherent view of the major factors linked to the disease, such as natural background ionising radiation, chemical exposures, especially motor vehicle pollution and magnetic fields. Here, the emphasis is on mechanistic understanding of the epidemiological findings. His current interests, working with CwCUK Trustees, are in the prevention of childhood cancer, understanding environmental and lifestyle causal factors and those associated with reduced risk.

Hoel David G.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Hogstedt Christer

South Africa

Emeritus

Holmberg Bo E.G.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Hoppin, Jane

United States of America (USA)

Howard Charles Vyvyan

United Kingdom (UK)

Emeritus

Howard John

United States of America (USA)

Hryhorczuk Daniel

United States of America (USA)

Huff James

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Hughes Joseph

United States of America (USA)

Husgafvel-Pursiainen Kirsti

Finland

Emeritus

Iavicoli Sergio

Italy

Infante Peter F.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Jackson Richard J.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Richard Joseph Jackson is Professor and Chair the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health of the University of California, Los Angeles. A pediatrician and public health leader, he recently served as a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at the University of California, Berkeley. He served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, including the highest, State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta. While in California his work led to the establishment of the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and state and national laws that reduced risks, especially to farm workers and to children, from pesticides. While at CDC he established the national asthma epidemiology and control program, the environmental health “tracking” program, the “built environment and health” activities, and advanced the childhood lead poisoning prevention program. He instituted the current federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. He was the US lead under several US government efforts around health and environment in Russia, including radiation threats. In the late 1990s he was the CDC leader in establishing the US National Pharmaceutical Stockpile to prepare for terrorism and other disasters—which was activated on September 11, 2001. He has received numerous awards including the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health award as the Distinguished Teacher and Mentor of the Year. He chairs “the Policies and Practices” committee of the CDC/ATSDR National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures activated September 2009. Dick Jackson co-authored Urban Sprawl and Public Health, a 2004 book from Island Press and is the host of an upcoming public television special on public spaces-public health. He has served on many health and environment boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects.

Jarosinska Dorota

Germany

Jarvholm Bengt

Sweden

Emeritus

Jeebhay Mohamed Fareed

South Africa

Professor Mohamed Fareed Jeebhay, MBChB DOH MPhil (Epi) MPH (Occ Med) PhD, an Occupational Medicine specialist, holds joint appointments as Head of the Occupational Medicine Division in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine as well as in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He held the position of Associate Director (Occupational Health) of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (2002-2014), prior to being Head of Department and Director of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine (2012-2017) at UCT. Professor Jeebhay established the occupational medicine specialist training programme at UCT in 2004 and also convenes the MPhil (Occupational Health) and the PhD programme in the Occupational Medicine Division. He has been a fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini (2011-present). He has served on many statutory committees of the National Ministries of Health and Labour relating to occupational health and safety in South Africa. Professor Jeebhay is a previous recipient (1998) of the International Award in Occupational Health and Safety of the American Public Health Association (APHA). He is rated by the National Research Foundation (South Africa) as an internationally acclaimed (B2-rated) research scientist. Professor Jeebhay leads the research programme on occupational allergens and asthma in the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research (CEOHR). His research has a major focus on environmental risk factors and preventive approaches for work-related allergy and asthma. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Current Allergy & Clinical Immunology and the African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine. He held the chair of the research portfolio on the national executive committee of the Allergy Society of South Africa (ALLSA) from 2004-2012 for which he received the ALLSA distinguished service award (2012). He was recently elected as the new Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Allergy IG of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) for the 2019-2021 term and is a member of its Research and Outreach committee.

Jensen Tina Kold

Denmark

Joanna Katarzyna Jurewicz

Poland

Prof. Joanna Jurewicz, head of Department of Chemical Safety, epidemiologist, involved in researches addressing occupational health issues. Since the beginning of the work at Nofer Institute focused in her research on the assessment of the impact of occupational factors on human health, especially the effect of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproductive health, involved in estimating health risks resulting from exposure to chemicals in the workplace and development, organization and conducting studies in the field of occupational epidemiology and occupational hygiene. She is also involved in the preparation of recommendation, guidelines, opinions for governmental administration (preparation and consultation of legal acts), employers, employees, services responsible for occupational health and safety (interpretation of legal acts, risk assessment, trainings) in the field of chemical safety. Her work deals with the introduction of new hygiene standards and care for updating and verifying the values of occupational exposure limit in terms of their compliance with current literature data, new research and analytical techniques. She actively participates in the activities of the Polish Society of Industrial Hygienists (President since 2021). Since 2019 member of the Experts Team of Occupational Exposure Limits (OEL) of Chemical Substances in the Work Environment in Poland. Her activities are focused on preparation of documentation of the proposed OELs of the chemical substances. The documentations/ values are successively introduced to the list of OELs in the work environment, constituting Appendix 1 to the regulation published in the Polish Journal of Laws. Member of the Scientific Board of the journal "Methods of Work Environment Assessment" (2020-currently), which publishes documentation of the proposed OELs and methods of assessment of occupational factors in the work environment. Author or co-author of many scientific publications in the field of occupational and environmental epidemiology, occupational hygiene and public health (about 80 publications, including 65 as the first or last author). Member of national and international expert groups, including for the evaluation of research projects. Contractor and manager of numerous national and international projects: from the National Science Center, the National Center for Research and Development, the National Health Program of the Polish Ministry of Health, and the EU projects. Since 2020 Deputy editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health and the thematic editor of the journal Occupational Medicine.

Johnson Barry L.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Joshi Tushar Kant

India

Emeritus

Kang Seong Kyu

South Korea

Professor Seong-Kyu Kang is a Clinical Professor at Gachon University Gil Medical Center in Incheon, Republic of Korea, and has been a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini since 2011. He has served as President of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) since 2022. He has been actively involved in ICOH since 2009 as a Vice President and Board member, and also served as Editor-in-Chief of the ICOH Newsletter. He organized the 31st ICOH Congress held in Seoul in 2015. In academia, Professor Kang served as Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Gachon University College of Medicine until his retirement in 2024. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of Safety and Health at Work (SH@W) since 2010, a journal indexed in SCIE/SSCI with an Impact Factor of 3.0 (2025). In national occupational health policy and practice, he previously held senior positions at the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA), including Vice President of Technology, Director General of the Seoul Regional Office, and Director General of the Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute (OSHRI). He also chaired the Occupational Safety and Health Committee of the Economic, Social & Labor Council under the Presidential Office, facilitating agreement among employees, employers, and the government to prevent serious workplace accidents. He currently serves as a non-executive Vice President of the Korea Industrial Health Association (KIHA). Internationally, he served as an EIS fellow at the US CDC, assigned to NIOSH, and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health. He is a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini. Professor Kang received his MD from ChungNam National University and completed residency training in Family Medicine at Yonsei University Severance Hospital. He was awarded the Order of Merit for Excellence in Industrial Accident Prevention by the Government of the Republic of Korea.

Katsouyanni Klea

Greece

Kayama Fujio

Japan

Kazuhito Yokoyama

Japan

Kelman Howard R.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Kelsey Karl

United States of America (USA)

Kim Rokho

Germany

Dr. Rokho Kim is a physician specialized in family medicine and occupational/environmental medicine. He was a founding member of Korean Physicians for Humanitarian Actions (In-Eui-Hyup) in 1987, known for untiring activities promoting "health as a human right" and advocating for the workers and the urban poor since then in South Korea. In 1988-1991, he served as a medical witness representing the workers and former workers against the pro-industry authoritarian regime at that time in the major political and social disputes on the causal linkage between the occupational hazards and the health outcomes among the exposed workers. One of the historical milestones was the Korean governments' special recognition and compensation of more than 800 victims of carbon disulphide poisoning in Wonjin Rayon, leading to the establishment of the Wonjin Foundation of Victims of Occupational Diseases and the Wonjin Green Hospital in Seoul and Kuri City in South Korea. For his "reverence for life" expressed in his devotion to the workers suffering from occupational diseases, he was awarded "Albert Schweitzer Award" at the commencement of Harvard School of Public Health in 1995. He taught introductory and advanced courses of environmental and occupational health at the Seoul National University (Assistance Professor) and Harvard School of Public Health (Instructor and Adjunct Assistant Professor), and carried out researches on low-level lead poisoning, measuring lead levels in bone, endocrine disrupting chemicals, work-related musculoskeletal disorders, among others. He also served as founding director of Wonjin Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and Wonjin Green Hospital in 1998-2001. He was Assistant Director of Occupational Health Programme of Massachusetts State Government in 2001-2003. He was Project Manager and Scientist at the European Centre for Environment and Health of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europ in 2003-2012 and Coordinator of Health and Environment of the Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) in 2013-2020. In February 2020, he was appointed as Unit Head of Methods and Standards Team (MST) of Department of Quality Assurance for Norms and Standards (QNS) of Science Division in the WHO Headquarters in Geneva. In WHO-EURO, he was responsible for the development of indicators for Children's Environmental Health, Noise and Health, and Occupational Health. In WHO-WPRO, he is currently responsible for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Emergency and Humanitarian Action (EHA), and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) as Head of Environmental Health Unit in WHO South Pacific Office in Suva, Fiji. He was Project Leader for establishing the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health of WPRO in Seoul which opened in 2019. Dr. Kim graduated from Seoul National University with degrees of MD (1982), MPH (1985), and PhD (1997), and Harvard University with Dr. PH degree (1995) and OEM Residency (1995). He holds two medical specialist boards having completed in the residency trainings in Family Medicine (1986) and Occupational and Environmental Medicine (1997). In WHO-HQ, his team has been instrumental in providing rapid review and quality assurance services for the development of trustworthy evidence-based COVID-19 guidance during the pandemic. His team has also led the development of WHO-wide quality assurance system to ensure all normative products of WHO are of high quality, evidence-based, agile and impactful in countries.

Kishi Reiko

Japan

Prof. Reiko KISHI is an eminent professor for Environmental and Health Sciences, Hokkaido University. She is the principal investigator of The Hokkaido Birth Cohort Studies of Environment and Children's Health (malformation, allergy, and development), which is a large-scale community-based birth cohort studies (n= 20,000), which has been conducted since 2002, focusing on how and to what extent low level environmental chemicals affect fetal development, malformation, birth size, the immune system, allergy, thyroidal & reproductive function of the mother and child, and child developmental disorders such as ADHD and ASD, including gene-environment interaction. Currently she is continuing the survey of the 10 year-old children. So far her group has clarified that even low levels of PCBs & dioxins, pesticides, and PFOS/PFOA influence children's health. Even with a similar level of exposure to POPs, quite large differences of the effects on children are observed with regard to both parents' and children's genetic susceptibility, i.e. genetic polymorphisms such as those in aryl hydrocarbon receptors, drug-metabolizing enzymes, and folate metabolism are significantly associated with different fetal and infant effects. Recently more than 20 birth-cohort studies are now ongoing in Asia. 10 countries recently became members of the Asian Consortium of birth-cohort studies, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan & China. This international collaboration will enhance the quality of new studies in Asia and other continents. In addition to the above, she has done a variety of studies on 1) Environmental and occupational health; 2) Indoor air quality and sick-building syndrome, 3) Studies on occupational stress and physical & mental health of workers, 4) Occupational studies on the neurobehavioural effects of organic solvents and metals 5) Occupational cancer epidemiology, 6) Experimental toxicological studies of environmental chemicals, especially, neurobehavioral toxicology and Experimental studies on reproductive and developmental toxicology, 7) Social support networks and preventive care for the elderly. In 2005 she was elected as a member of the Science Council of Japan. As a member, she has organized several committees, which edited and issued more than 10 recommendations to the government and academia. One of the important recommendations is "Towards restructuring of the system concerning work employment and safety-health", which focused on preventing "Karoshi", sudden death due to overwork, and depression and suicide among workers, which is the most crucial issue in Japan. As the chairperson of the Food Hygiene Council of Japan Committee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (2005~), She has made great efforts to codify the safety limits for the level of radiation-contaminated foods in her country. It is a very important issue after the catastrophic disaster of the great East Japan earthquake (2011) and Fukushima radiation accident of TEPCO. From April of 2015, she became a director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Environmental Health and prevention of Chemical Hazards in her Hokkaido University. She was elected as vice-president of Japanese Association of Medical Sciences in June of 2015.

Kogi Kazutaka

Japan

Laborde Amalia

Uruguay

Landrigan Philip

United States of America (USA)

Langard Sverre

Norway

Emeritus

Lanphear Bruce P.

Canada

Lauriola Paolo

Italy

Emeritus

Lemen Richard A.

United States of America (USA)

Lerman Yehuda

Israel

Levy Barry S.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Li Guilan

China

Emeritus

Lipscomb Hester

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Lipscomb Jane

United States of America (USA)

London Leslie

South Africa

López-Carrillo Lizbeth

Mexico

Lucchini Roberto

Italy

Lushniak Boris

United States of America (USA)

Rear Admiral retired (RADM Ret) Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, has been Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland since January 2017. Prior to that he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics and Professor of Dermatology, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Lushniak was the US Deputy Surgeon General from November 2010 to September 2015, assisting the Surgeon General to articulate the best available scientific information to the public to improve personal health and the health of the Nation. He also oversaw the operations of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, comprised of approximately 6,700 uniformed health officers who serve in locations around the world to promote, protect, and advance the health and safety of our Nation. Dr. Lushniak served as Acting Surgeon General from July 2013 to December 2014 and was responsible for the release of the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health and the first ever Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer. From January to March 2015 he served as commander of the USPHS Monrovia Medical Unit in Liberia, the only US government hospital providing care to ebola patients. Dr. Lushniak began his USPHS career in 1988 in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and initially served with the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Cincinnati, Ohio where he conducted epidemiological investigations of workplace hazards. In 1993 he completed a dermatology residency at the University of Cincinnati and established an occupational skin disease program at NIOSH. He also served on assignments in Bangladesh, St. Croix, Russia, and Kosovo, was part of the CDC/NIOSH team at Ground Zero and part of the CDC anthrax team in Washington, DC. In 2004 he transitioned from CDC to the FDA in the Office of Counterterrorism and was appointed FDA Assistant Commissioner in 2005. He was deployed to Hurricane Katrina and also served as the FDA Deputy Incident Commander for the 2009 pandemic response. He was promoted to Rear Admiral, Lower Half in 2006 and attained the rank of Rear Admiral, Upper Half in 2010. He retired from the USPHS On October 1, 2015 after 27 years of service. In November 2017 he was awarded the American Medical Association Distinguished Service Award for his service as Surgeon General. Dr. Lushniak was born in Chicago to post-World War II immigrants from Ukraine. He was admitted to the six-year Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University and completed his BS degree in 1981 and MD in 1983. In 1984 he completed the MPH degree at Harvard University. He completed a residency in family medicine in 1987 (St Joseph Hospital, Chicago) and maintains certifications in dermatology and preventive medicine (occupational). He is a member of the American College of Preventive Medicine and serves on its Board of Regents, the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Dermatological Association, the American Public Health Association, the US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association, and other professional organizations. A firm believer in leadership by example, Dr. Lushniak also promotes the core messages of prevention, health, and well-being via his active lifestyle. He enjoys the outdoors and is an avid bicyclist, runner, sailor, sea kayaker, and backpacker. He’s completed four marathons, trekked to Mt. Everest, climbed Mt Rainier and Mt Whitney, and tries to get to get to the Sierras as often as possible. He resides in Rockville, Maryland with his wife Dr. Patricia Cusumano and two daughters Larissa and Stephanie.

Maffini Maricel

United States of America (USA)

Magnani Corrado

Italy

Makalinao Irma Reyes

Philippines

Mandrioli Daniele

Italy

Mansyur Muchtaruddin

Indonesia

Marinaccio Alessandro

Italy

Markowitz Steven B.

United States of America (USA)

McCloskey Michael J.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

McDiarmid Melissa A.

United States of America (USA)

Melissa A. McDiarmid, MD, MPH, DABT has established and continues to expand a career devoted to the care of workers and those exposed to environmental hazards by identifying adverse effects, developing strategies to reduce exposure, training occupational medicine and public health students and convening diverse public health professionals to craft policy protections for at- risk populations, in the US and internationally. Dr. McDiarmid is Professor of Medicine and Director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She also directs the University of Maryland OMS/WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for Occupational Health and serves as the lead for health worker protection activities across the Collaborating Center Network for the WHO/ Geneva Workers’ Health Office. In a related global health effort, she leads a University of Maryland longitudinal project to support the Ministry of Health in The Gambia, West Africa in providing prevention services for the health workforce, including developing legislation to ensure minimum standards of health protection. She was Director of the Office of Occupational Medicine for the US Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) in Washington DC, a position she held for five years during the MDR-TB resurgence in the 1990s. While there she led the agency response to protect the health workforce, providing expert testimony, preparing safety policy and as liaison with the CDC. She was also the principal author of the OSHA technical guidance on the safe handling of hazardous anti-cancer drugs, a topic in which she has remained actively engaged internationally. Prior to moving to OSHA, she was on the Environmental Health Sciences faculty at The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health where she directed the Occupational Medicine residency. Dr. McDiarmid has served on numerous national advisory boards including as a member and Chair of the Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR/CDC) Board of Scientific Counselors, member and Chair of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors and currently serves as the Chair of a National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health. Dr. McDiarmid has conducted diverse field and surveillance studies and has published widely on healthcare workers, medical surveillance and management, reproductive health and occupational cancers. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and her M.P.H. from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where she also completed fellowship training in Occupational Medicine. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Toxicology.

McPhaul Kathleen

United States of America (USA)

Mehlman Myron A.

United States of America (USA)

Dr. Myron A. Mehlman is currently Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York since 1980. Born in 1934, Dr. Mehlman was educated at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas, and at City College of New York (B.S. 1957), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1964), the University of Wisconsin (Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Enzyme Research, 1967), and the Harvard Business School (Program for Health Systems Management, 1974). His academic appointments include Associate Professor of Biochemistry (1967-1969) at Rutgers University, and Professor of Biochemistry (1969-1974) at University of Nebraska College of Medicine. He is also on the faculty as Professor at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, and New York University Medical School. In addition to serving as Chairman of the First and Second National Meetings of the American College of Toxicology, he has chaired numerous symposia at Rutgers University, The University of Nebraska College of Medicine, FASEB, NIH, FDA, Italy, Japan, Sweden and at many other locations. His professional memberships include President-international Society of Exposure Analysis, The American Society of Biological Chemists, The American Physiological Society, American Institute of Nutrition, American Society for Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacology, The American Chemical Society, The Society of Toxicology, The American College of Toxicology (past president), The American Industrial Hygiene Society. He is a Director and North American Secretariat of Collegium Ramazzini, Air Pollution Control Association, New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society for Risk Analysis and American College of Nutrition. Dr. Mehlmanis also the founding editor of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, and the Journal of Environmental Pathology and Toxicology. He has been series editor for Advances in Modern Nutrition, Advances in Human Nutrition, Advances in Modern Toxicology, Advances in Modern Environmental Toxicology, Symposium on Metabolic Regulation. From 1977-1979 Dr. Mehlman was the first and founding president of American College of Toxicology. Dr. Mehlman is also a member of a number of Editorial Boards of Toxicology Journals. He was elected to the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and was elected Fellow of the American College of Toxicology. Since 1962, Dr. Mehlman has published approximately 160 articles in the field of toxicology, biochemistry, nutrition and human health. He had edited and coedited approximately 50 books.

Melnick Ronald L.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Merchant James A.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Mergler Donna

Canada

Emeritus

Meyer John

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Michaels David

United States of America (USA)

David Michaels PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist and professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health. He has held high-level, US Senate-confirmed public health positions in the administrations of President Barack Obama (in which he was US Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health) and President Bill Clinton (US Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health). Michaels is a leader in efforts to defend the integrity of the science underpinning public health and environmental protections, and is the author of The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Doubt is Their Product (Oxford University Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles in Science, JAMA, and other leading scientific publications. Michaels served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) from 2011 to 2017, and was a member of the NTP’s Board of Scientific Counselors 2018-2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Michaels focused much of his work on improving the protection of workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2. He has written and consulted extensively on the topic and was a member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and the Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s Task Force on Safe Work, Safe School, and Safe Travel. Michaels served as US Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health from 2009 through January 2017, and was the longest serving administrator in OSHA's history. Under his leadership, OSHA strengthened exposure standards for silica and beryllium, and issued new rules on safety, injury and illness record-keeping and reporting, and hazard communication. He launched OSHA’s Temporary Workers Initiative; greatly increased the agency’s activities protecting healthcare workers; expanded OSHA's activities to protect whistleblowers under Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and 19 other financial, environmental, transportation, and public health laws; and issued OSHA's first compliance guide and recommended practices for employers for preventing and addressing workplace retaliation. Since leaving OSHA, much of Michaels' work has focused is on the relationship between safety and health management systems, operational excellence and sustainability. He has lectured extensively on the topic and directed OSHA's first activities on sustainability in environment, social and governance (ESG). From 1998 through January 2001, Michaels served as the US Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health. In this position, he had primary responsibility for protecting the health and safety of workers, the neighboring communities and the environment surrounding the nation's nuclear weapons facilities. Michaels was the chief architect of the historic initiative to compensate workers in the nuclear weapons complex who developed cancer or other diseases following exposure to radiation, beryllium and other hazards. Since its enactment in 2000, The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program has provided more than $24 billion in benefits to sick workers and their families. He also oversaw promulgation of two major public rules: Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention and Nuclear Safety Management. Michaels received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for his work on behalf of nuclear weapons workers and for his advocacy for scientific integrity. He is also the recipient of the American Public Health Association's David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health, the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award given by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' William D. Wagner Award and William Steiger Memorial Award. Dr. Michaels is also a recipient of the George Washington University School of Public Health's Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award and the Axelrod Prize in Public Health awarded by the University at Albany School of Public Health. Michaels is a graduate of the City College of New York and holds an MPH (Master of Public Health) and PhD from Columbia University.

Milham Samuel

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Miller Albert

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Miller Aubrey

United States of America (USA)

Milton Donald

United States of America (USA)

Minardi Franco

Italy

Emeritus

Mirer Franklin E.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Misra Usha Kant

India

Modenese Alberto

Italy

Monforton Celeste

Canada

Moyo Dingani

Zimbabwe

Muir David C.F.

Canada

Emeritus

Murgia Nicola

Italy

Mustapha Olaitan Adetoun

Nigeria

Dr Adetoun Mustapha Olaitan was born in Nigeria and had her B.Sc (Hons) and MSc at the University of Lagos, Nigeria and Masters of Public Health at the University of Wales, Cardiff and PhD in Epidemiology and Public health at the Imperial College London, United kingdom. She is a leading Environmental Epidemiologist in Africa, an adjunct Professor at the Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria, and an adjunct Researcher at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR). She started her career in 1990 and her over 30 years of work experience spans academia, industry, and research. Her work on the association between respiratory health and air pollution in schoolchildren in low socioeconomic status areas of Nigeria in the early 2000s provided early research evidence of the impact of traffic pollution on respiratory health in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the Principal Investigator for the Lagos Air Quality Monitoring Program and the Air Quality for Collective Public Health Action, evaluating the sources, spatial, and seasonal variation of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution in the mega-city of Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja in Nigeria, and aiming to demonstrate the potential of low-cost approaches to air quality monitoring in resource-constrained settings. She was a co-author on the 2017 Lancet Commission report on pollution and health, which used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2015, demonstrating substantial effects on health, societies, and economies from air pollution world-wide, and in calls for a stronger stand on pollution control. Among other roles affecting sub-Saharan Africa, she was an external expert reviewer on the 2020 World Health Organization Expert Consultation on Personal Interventions and Risk Communication on Air Pollution. Dr. Olaitan is the Project Lead in NIMR for the ENABLE project. This is a four-million-euro European Commission grant awarded to eleven research institutions to prevent non-communicable diseases and improve health and welfare in Ethiopia. She was a co-Principal Investigator for the Nigerian Environmental Epidemiology Accelerated Research (NEEAR) Program, a collaboration between NIMR and Washington University in St. Louis, USA, that built environmental epidemiology research capacity in Nigeria. Dr. Olaitan co-led the Social and Environmental Justice subcommittee and co-authored the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health report. She was also part of the delegation that presented the report at WHO Headquarters, Geneva, and held advocacy sessions with stakeholders on the Global Plastics Treaty in March 2023. She co-authored a commentary on how harmonization of epidemiologic research methods would facilitate the pooling of data across the African continent and enable decision-makers to develop robust environmental health interventions and policies for urban slums. Dr. Olaitan has been a change agent for ethical research, an active member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Ethics and Philosophy Committee since 1999 and was a past co-chair of the Committee. She co-authored the ISEE’s revised Ethics Guidelines in 2012 and co-ordinated the delivery of ethics discussion sessions at ISEE conferences from 2005–2018. Dr. Olaitan developed the curriculum and taught postgraduate-level Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Epidemiology, and Environmental Justice courses, Planetary Health, supervised theses and mentored young professionals in Nigeria, USA and UK. She is an assessor for international postgraduate scholarships and research grants such as the UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme in Nigeria; Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health, USA, Pilot Project Grant Application. She is a member of the editorial board and reviewer for several journals such as Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Epidemiology and Global Epidemiology. She has authored over 60 journal publications and conference papers and has received several national and international academic scholarships and recognitions. In 2010, she won the ISEE Rebecca James Baker Memorial Prize for scientific excellence, integrity, and resourcefulness in cross-cultural research for improving public health. Dr. Olaitan has demonstrated exceptional expertise in public health advocacy for influencing the global research agenda and policy interventions for vulnerable populations. She has led several policy sessions at ISEE annual conferences and facilitated discussions on translating research findings into implementable policy actions. In 2021, as a member of the ISEE Policy Committee, she contributed to the development of the ISEE statement on the revision of WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQG) that recognised adverse health effects from pollution exposure at all observed levels of pollution concentrations and calls for revision to the current air quality regulations for better health policies. She co-authored a publication on a joint statement by over 100 Medical, Public Health, Scientific Societies and Patient Representative Organisations across the world calling for the adoption of the WHO AQG for healthier air for all. She also granted a press interview and published an article in one of Nigeria’s foremost news media where she highlighted the gap in current Nigeria air quality regulation and advocated for how Nigeria could use the revised WHO AQG to fill this gap. As a member of the International Science Council (ISC), she contributed to the development of the ISC statement to advance the role of robust, independent, and multidisciplinary science in the Global Plastic Treaty negotiation and implementation process. She was a member of the ISC delegation to UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee 2 (INC-2) meeting and delivered the floor statement at INC-2 on behalf of the ISC, the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, and the Global Council for Science and the Environment. She has been a member of various international working groups on Global Health issues such as the Future Earth Health Knowledge Action Network that developed transdisciplinary research priorities for human and planetary health; and Advancing Human Health & Well-Being by Preventing Ocean Pollution. She was part of a national team that developed the roadmap for phasing out ozone-depleting substances in Nigeria in 1998. She has served as Energy Efficiency consultant in Kyrgyzstan with the United Nations Volunteers and as a trainer for Natural World Heritage Site Managers in Kenya with UNESCO-Earthwatch Institute Program (2011–2012). She was Past Councillor for Africa in the ISEE Global Council and a Fellow of the Society. She was instrumental in forming the Africa Chapter of ISEE and served as its inaugural chair and increased its membership from 10 in 2018 to over 100 in 2020. She led the ISEE-sponsored short course in Nigeria that attracted over 500 applications and contributed to increased interest in environmental epidemiology research in sub-Saharan Africa. She initiated the LMIC Best Abstract Award in ISEE Council in 2021 and serves as the Committee’s Chair. She regularly serves in ISEE conference scientific committees. She has been the Vice President of British Chevening Scholarship Alumni Association of Nigeria and South-West Regional Coordinator for the Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows Alumni Association, Nigeria. Dr. Olaitan has published over twenty-one environmental health promotion articles and delivered talks to focus groups in commemoration of the annual UN World Environment Day and World Oceans Day to educate the public on global planetary and environmental health issues and enrol personal commitment to making green choices. She is committed to using her skills to address developmental challenges of Africa and for the betterment of the contemporary society.

Myers John Peterson

United States of America (USA)

Myers Jonathan E.

South Africa

Emeritus

Natali Pier Giorgio

Italy

Emeritus

Nefedov Oleg M.

Russia

Emeritus

Nemery Benoit

Belgium

Emeritus

Newman Lee S.

United States of America (USA)

Lee S. Newman, M.D., M.A. is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, and Department of Epidemiology in the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado. He is also Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Campus, Aurora Colorado, USA. He is the founding Director of the University of Colorado's Center for Health, Work & Environment, which is designated as one of ten Total Worker Health Centers of Excellence by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Dr. Newman is also founding Director of the NIOSH-supported Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC). Previously, he was Director of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health at National Jewish Health, 1997-2005. For 20 years, his clinical practice focused on the diagnosis, management and prevention of occupational and environmental lung disorders and granulomatous diseases, especially chronic beryllium disease, interstitial lung disorders, and sarcoidosis. He is a passionate educator and mentor of occupational and environmental health students and faculty, twice receiving the Chancellor's Award for teaching excellence at the University of Colorado. He co-founded and co-directs a graduate level Total Worker Health Certificate program at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is a founding executive committee member of the University of Colorado Consortium for Climate Change & Health and the Climate and Worker Health Initiative. For 25 years, his occupational health laboratory research focused on the immune basis of granulomatous disorders, metal immunotoxicology, the relationship between genetics and environmental triggers of disease, and biomarker development, including the refinement and field testing of the beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT). Dr. Newman's epidemiologic research and policy activities address ways of improving occupational health surveillance, the design and implementation of effective interventions, and the translation of science into public policy, especially related to beryllium workers. In particular, his work has contributed to the passage of US Congressional legislation, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act and the promulgation of U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Rule: Occupational Exposure to Beryllium and Beryllium Compounds. His public health practice includes Health Links, a Total Worker Health solution targeted especially to improve safety, health and well-being of workers in small and medium sized enterprises. His most recent research includes a prospective, randomized controlled study of an intervention to improve worker health and safety outcomes in small businesses. Dr. Newman leads one of the largest international prospective cohort studies and pragmatic comparative effectiveness trials to address the etiology and prevention of the epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Cause (CKDu), focusing on sugar cane workers and rural communities in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Mexico. He is the author of more than 225 peer-reviewed publications, more than 200 book chapters, commentaries, and reviews, as well as nine books on arts and crafts-an area of avocational interest. Dr. Newman consults and serves on advisory panels regarding occupational health, total worker health, and public health. Advisory roles have included work with the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CDC, ATSDR, NIOSH, and NIH). Dr. Newman completed his BA degree at Amherst College and MA Degree in social psychology at Cornell University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He earned his MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He completed his fellowship training in pulmonary medicine in 1987 at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center and at National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA. Dr. Newman is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians

Ngowi Aiwerasia Vera Festo

Tanzania

Nicolopoulou-Stamati P.

Greece

Emeritus

Nordberg Gunnar

Sweden

Emeritus

Dr Gunnar F. Nordberg obtained his PhD and MD from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm in 1972 and 1977. He served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine at Odense University, Denmark 1977-1979 and subsequently as Professor and Chairman at the Department of Environmental Medicine at Umea University, Umea Sweden, where he is an active emeritus Professor since 2008. He worked for periods up to a year at the University of North Carolina, Department of Pathology, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C. USA, WHO Headquarters in Geneva and at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyons, France. He is former chair of the Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals under the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), where he is a member of the executive Board. Dr Nordberg has published more than 300 papers in Scientific Journals and International Handbooks. His research is mainly focused on Toxicology and Epidemiology of Metals and other environmental agents and on Human Health Risk Assessment of Energy Systems. He has edited or co-edited more than 20 Scientific Books and he has contributed as a member of the Editorial Board of several International Scientific Journals e g Environmental Health Perspectives. He is Chief Editor, Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals, 5th Ed, published 2022 by Academic Press/Elsevier. He participated in many International Task Groups organized by WHO/IPCS, IARC, IAEA, ICOH, ILSI, IUPAC several EU Agencies, USEPA and ATSDR, evaluating Risks of Environmental Agents. He was a member of the WHO Commission of Health and the Environment, Panel on Energy. Dr Nordberg is a former coordinator and presently a participant in EU funded research. He coordinated EU- projects on Environmental Epidemiology of Cadmium Pollution and organized many International Symposia on Health effects of metal pollutants. He participated in EU-projects on outdoor air pollution and on Trichloramine in indoor swimming pools – effects on airways studied by sensitive biomarkers, funded by the Swedish funding Agencies FAS and FORMAS. He has conducted collaborative research with many universities in several countries. He was one of the fellows who drafted the Ramazzini statement on Reducing Disease and Death from Artisanal and Small Scale Mining 2021.

Nordberg Monica

Sweden

Emeritus

Dr Monica Nordberg, is an emerita Professor at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden. She has served as chair of the Department of Environmental Hygiene, as member, Karolinska Institutet Study Program for Community Medicine, member of Education Policy Committee for Toxicology and Public Health, KI, Stockholm for many years. She has more than 250 peer reviewed scientific articles, book chapters and review articles dealing with biochemical mechanisms and health effects related to exposure to metals mainly cadmium, lead and mercury and interaction with selenium. A special focus is on the protein metallothionein impact on the kinetics of cadmium She is one of the editors and author of a Textbook in Swedish Arbets- och Miljomedicin, (Occupational and Environmental Medicine-Health and Environment) latest (4th) Edition 2019. Monica Nordberg is a co- editor and author, of the Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals 3rd edition, Academic Press/Elsevier, 2007 and, for the 4th edition 2015. To the 5 th edition, published 2022 she contributed as coauthor to several chapters. This work is within the framework of Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals under International Commission on Occupational Health (SCTM/ICOH) which she served as secretary, chair and presently as former chair. Monica Nordberg served as titular member of the Chemistry and Human Health of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry issuing recommendations regarding definitions and concepts. She was the Swedish representative in the Management Committee of COST Action, member EU Strategy Environment and Health, SCALE, Technical Working Group Indicators and Priority Diseases. She has experience as an expert serving Japan Food Safety Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute for Environmental Health Studies (NIEHS), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) USA, World Health Organization HQ, Geneva/International Program on Chemical Safety. Monica Nordberg is a full member of different societies such as Society of Toxicology, USA, International Commission on Occupational Health and Swedish Medical Association.

Nowak Dennis

Germany

Noweir Madbuli H.

Saudi Arabia

Emeritus

Nuwayhid Iman

Lebanon

O'Neill Rory

Great Britain

Ogunseitan Oladele

United States of America (USA)

Okubo Toshiteru

Japan

Emeritus

Olden Kenneth

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Olden Kenneth

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Oliver Christine

Canada

Omenn Gilbert S.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Ozonoff David M.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Paek Domyung

South Korea

Domyung Paek has been Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul, Korea, since 1992, where he served as Department Chair, Vice Dean, and Dean, as well as director of residency training program. Over the last 30 years, he had witnessed and also participated in many aspects of societal changes of Korea, including health and safety. Starting from a small idea of introducing Material Safety Data Sheet to Korea in 1992, 'the right to know' initiatives trickled into the 'Mediation Committee' activities for 'Samsung Semiconductor Leukemia' cases (2014), despite the allegations of no known use of carcinogens at the workplace by the company, and also the total 'Asbestos Ban', together with compensation schemes for environmental victims of asbestos related diseases (2009) in Korea. He had been the investigation committee chair for the 'Humidifier Disinfectant Lung Injury' (2013) and still stands as the expert witness at the court for the 'humidifier disinfectant victims. These experiences made him to be interested in the ways and mechanisms of health and safety changes in a society. Among various stakeholders, including government, professionals, employers and industry representatives, labor unions, and others, he identifies the cross-checking and feedback, not the authoritative opinions, of stakeholders to be most important in attaining health and safety changes. Especially he is interested in how health and safety victims can go forward to indicate the underlying structural risk factors, though the persistence of which had been contributed to by the victims themselves, and also how the responsible management of superiority come to acknowledge the inherent vulnerabilities of the existing structures, thereby switching their positions in the power status of moral hierarchies. He had studied at Seoul National University, College of Medicine (MD, 1981), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc, 1986), and Harvard School of Public Health (ScD, 1990).

Paladini Giuseppe

Italy

Emeritus

Paulson Jerome

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Pelclova Daniela

Czech Republic

Perera Frederica

United States of America (USA)

Perry Melissa J.

United States of America (USA)

Pershagen Goran

Sweden

Emeritus

Piacentino John

United States of America (USA)

Poje Gerald V.

United States of America (USA)

Dr. Jerry Poje is a specialist in policies dealing with chemical hazards. Since its inception in November 1997, Dr. Poje has served as a Board Member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. As the Executive/Administrator he was responsible for personnel administration, conduct of work, and chairing public meetings. Dr. Poje also has represented the CSB before the Congress and the Executive Branch. Dr. Poje served as the Board member on scene at the Kaltech reactive chemical explosion in Manhattan, NY that injured 32 in May 2002 and at the Georgia-Pacific toxic chemical incident that killed two and injured more than a dozen people near Pennington, AL in January 2002. He also served on-scene at the Sonat Exploration explosion and fire that claimed four lives near Pitkin, Louisiana in March 1998. Under his management the CSB has executed a strategic hiring program that has staffed the agency with chemical engineering and safety experts, and a prevention and outreach effort to better meet CSB's strategic goals. That effort has resulted in completion of nine investigations, a Safety Bulletin on Management of Change, a Case Study on hydroxlamine safety, a special study on reactive hazards and the initiation of six on-going investigations. In addition, Dr. Poje organized and convened a safety board meeting on Chemical Accident Prevention Research and managed the board's efforts on reducing risks of accidents associated with Year 2000 computer problems, and more recently has organized board efforts on chemical safety and security. Dr. Poje advocates for the board's safety recommendations before state and federal regulatory agencies, trade unions, trade associations, corporations and professional organizations. Prior to joining the Board, Dr. Poje directed international programs and public health for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, focusing on issues of disease prevention, health promotion and environmental justice. He also served on U.S. delegations to intergovernmental meetings on chemical safety and promoted the development of international information networks to enhance global understanding of chemical hazards and their risks. Dr. Poje received his Ph.D. from New York University and served on the faculty at Miami University of Ohio. He has also served as a senior scientist for the National Wildlife Federation, and as vice president for Research at Green Seal. Dr. Poje has testified before Congress advocating improvements to public health and worker protection and safety, pollution prevention policy, Clean Air policy and regulations, chemical accident prevention, Y2K and chemical safety, and groundwater protection policies. He has lectured on chemical hazards and policies to reduce their risks in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Portier Christopher

Switzerland

Dr. Christopher J. Portier is a semi-retired expert in the design, analysis, and interpretation of environmental health data with a focus on carcinogenicity. Dr. Portier is currently a doing consulting on international environmental health issues with private, non-governmental and governmental entities, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Emory University. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. During his 40+ years of research, Dr. Portier has focused on using systems-based approaches to understand the impact of the environment on human health. He has received numerous awards including the President’s Dream Green Team Award (2010), the Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association and the Outstanding Practitioner of the Year Award from the International Society for Risk Analysis. He is an elected Fellow of the International Statistics Institute, the World Innovation Foundation, the American Statistical Association and the Collegium Ramazzini. He has served on numerous advisory committees at U.S. EPA, US National Council on Science and Technology, World Health Organization, European Commission and others. Prior to his retirement, Dr. Portier served as the Director of the US National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to this, Dr. Portier was at the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) where he conducted research on environmental health and served as the Director of the Environmental Toxicology Program, the Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program, and the Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director of NIEHS. His current research is focused on air pollution, climate change and risks from several environmental exposures and on the interface of science with public health protection.

Prezant David

United States of America (USA)

Ramos-Bonilla Juan Pablo

Colombia

Dr. Juan Pablo Ramos-Bonilla studied Civil Engineering at Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia), and earned a Master of Environmental Management degree at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA), and a Ph.D. from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA). After finishing his Ph.D., he returned to Colombia where most of his research has been focused on analyzing and documenting the risks derived from asbestos production and consumption. Dr. Ramos-Bonilla has worked with vulnerable low-income brake mechanics, studying in great detail asbestos exposures experienced by these workers because of the manipulation of asbestos containing brake and transmission products. He also lead research initiatives to conduct respiratory health evaluations of a cohort of 56 auto-mechanics who have been occupationally exposed to asbestos. These studies have shown the deplorable working conditions and health risks experienced by auto-mechanics. Since 2015 Dr. Ramos-Bonilla has led a study in Sibate, a municipality where the asbestos industry began operations in Colombia in 1942. This ongoing investigation lead to the discovery of the first mesothelioma cluster in Colombia, and the discovery of large landfilled zones in the urban area of Sibate with the presence of an underground layer of friable asbestos. Other fellows of CR have actively contributed and co-authored a series of articles reporting these findings. Dr. Ramos-Bonilla openly supported regulatory initiatives to ban asbestos in Colombia, actively participating in the debates at the Colombian Senate and in different academic and non-academic events. On July 2019, Law 1968 was enacted banning asbestos in Colombia. Dr. Ramos-Bonilla also lead the first peer-reviewed study in Colombia analyzing the presence of chlorine pesticides in breast milk samples of extremely poor women from Bogotá (Colombia), and the first peer-reviewed study of the presence of lead in paint of toys commercialized in Colombia. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Rampal Krishna Gopal

Malaysia

Rantanen Jorma

Finland

Emeritus

Reindel Rebecca

United States of America (USA)

Rest Kathleen M.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Ribak Joseph

Israel

Emeritus

Rice Carol H.

United States of America (USA)

Carol Rice, PhD is Professor Emerita in the Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where her two primary research areas are the reconstruction of working lifetime exposure estimates for occupation and environmental epidemiology studies and the actions that can be implemented by workers following model training in health and safety to reduce exposures to a wide array of hazards at work or in the community. She completed an SM degree in industrial hygiene and air pollution control prior to being introduced to the group at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, becoming the first academically trained industrial hygienist on staff. At Mt. Sinai, an industry-wide evaluation of chemical exposures in the printing trades was initiated. She later worked for the Vermont state Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a compliance officer, developing a recognition of the inadequacy of workplace exposure limits and the constraints of the General Duty Clause. Following doctoral training in exposure reconstruction and occupational epidemiology, Dr. Rice joined the University of Cincinnati where she developed a strong research program in current and historical exposure assessment to compounds including creosote, silica, Adriamycin, Libby amphibole, beryllium, and a range of exposures at Department of Energy sites. Dr. Rice founded the Midwest Consortium for Hazardous Waste Worker Training in 1986 and directed the program until 2020. Over this time, it was continuously funded by the NIEHS and in the later years reached approximately 17,000 trainees annually through training centers in nine states. During two sabbaticals at the NCI, she continued to work on asbestos exposure metrics. Teaching efforts with graduate students at Cincinnati included the conduct of workplace exposure evaluations, methods to obtain complete occupational histories and effective worker training. From 2002 to 2012, Dr. Rice headed the Environmental & Occupational Hygiene academic training program and from 2008 to 2012 she was the director the NIOSH-supported Education and Research Center. Dr. Rice continues to contribute to union-based worker training programs. She was elected Chair of the ACGIH and to the APHA Governing Council. In 2022, she retired the Certified Industrial Hygiene credential.

Richter Elihu D.

Israel

Emeritus

Ringen Knut

United States of America (USA)

Robson Mark Gregory

United States of America (USA)

Rodney Ehrlich

South Africa

Emeritus

Rogan Walter J.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Rogers Bonnie

United States of America (USA)

Rojas-Bracho Leonora

Mexico

Rosen Mitchel

United States of America (USA)

Mitchel Rosen, PhD, is Director of the Center for Public Health Workforce Development and Professor in the Rutgers School of Public Health, Urban and Global Public Health Department. He received his BA in Biology from the University of Rhode Island, MS in Public Health Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and PhD from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Dr. Rosen’s interests include workforce development issues for public health professionals, specifically in the concentrations of occupational health and safety, public health capacity development, and emergency preparedness. Dr. Rosen develops capacity for vulnerable populations to provide safety and health education in their native language. Dr. Rosen focuses his research on impact of training on workplace practice. Dr. Rosen, as Director of the Center for Public Health Workforce Development, is responsible for providing training to public health professionals in New Jersey. Since 1988, he has managed the training of over 800,000 workers in occupational safety and health, environmental health, and public health education. He provides short courses, seminars and conferences to meet the training needs identified in our region. Dr. Rosen is the Principal Investigator of several programs, including the Atlantic Center for Occupational Health and Safety Training (funded by NIEHS), the Continuing and Outreach Education Programs for the NY/NJ Education and Research Center (funded by NIOSH), the Atlantic OSHA Education Center (non-financial cooperative agreement with OSHA), and the Local Performance Site in NJ for the Region 2 Public Health Training Center (funded by HRSA). Dr. Rosen was the founding Co-Director of the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness (funded by ASPH) and Principal Investigator for the development of a terrorism preparedness training program (funded by NJ Department of Health and Senior Services). Additionally, Dr. Rosen has been Principal Investigator on several projects funded by the NJ Department of Health, including Cancer and Aging, Cancer Clusters Risk Assessment, the Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health, Disaster Response Training after Hurricane Sandy, Ebola Personal Protective Equipment Train the trainer, and 5-Minutes to Help for EMS Personnel. The work that Dr. Rosen conducts empowers workers and community members to make informed decisions about safety and health issues. The information provided helps those attending our programs to remain safe, even when faced with hazardous situations.

Rosenman Kenneth D.

United States of America (USA)

Rosenstock Linda

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Ruchirawat Mathuros

Thailand

Ruff Kathleen

Canada

Honorary Member

Rydzynski Konrad J.

Poland

Emeritus

Konrad Rydzyński, MD, PhD. Director General of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland. Main recent scientific interest: genotoxicity and carcinogenesis; nanotechnology-related risks. Author of 130 publications, cited over 1130 times. Memberships in Scientific Advisory Bodies, Committees and Panels:  Member of the Expert Advisory Group for European Union 5th Framework Program Key Action 1 "Food, Nutrition & Health" and Key Action 4 "Environment and Health", DG Research (1999-2002);  Member and Vice-Chair of the Advisory Group for European Union 6th Framework Program Priority Area 5 "Food Quality and Safety" DG Research (2002-2006);  Member of the SCENIHR - Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, DG SANCO of European Commission (2004-2010);  Polish Delegate to OECD Test Guidelines Program (1995-1999);  Member of the Advisory Board to The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Natural Resources (Chairman of Environmental Health Risks Subcommittee) (1995-1999);  Member of The Polish MAC Values Commission for Chemicals (1989-1999);  Member (1994-1996), then Chairman (1996-1999) of the Public Health Granting Council at The Committee for Scientific Research;  Member of The Advisory Council to the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate (since 2005);  Founder and The Head of The National Centre for Alternative Methods (1995-2000);  Member of The Biological Effects of Low Level Exposure (BELLE) Advisory Committee, USA (since 2000);  Organizer of the EUROTOX Course: "Principles of risk assessment from chemical exposure" Lodz, Poland, August 31-September 6, 1995;  Lecturer at the international EUROTOX Course: "Principles of risk assessment from chemicals" Vilnius, Lithuania; Pula, Croatia; Varna, Bulgaria (1995-1997);  Organizer and Deputy Director of the School of Public Health, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz; 1993-1997; Director of SPH (2000-2003);  Assessor/Lead Assessor, The British Standards Institute, Certificate No. 94565A-29984, from 18 March 1995, and Certified Auditor No. 419, Polish Centre for Research and Certification. Memberships in Learned Societies:  Member of The EUROTOX (European Association of Societies of Toxicology) Executive Committee (1996-2002);  Member of The EUROTOX Educational Subcommittee (1999-2006);  Member of The Executive Council of The Polish Society of Toxicology (1999-2002)  President of The Polish Society of Toxicology (2002 - 2009);  Director in the Executive Committee of The International Union of Toxicology (2001-2007);  Member of The Executive Council of International Commission on Occupational Health MEDICHEM Committee (2000-2004);  Member of Committee for Human Risks of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2005-2011);  Honorary Member of The Ukrainian Medical Academy of Sciences (since 2011). Memberships in Editorial Boards:  Member of Editorial Board (1992-1999), then Editor in Chief (since 2000) of "The International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health";  Member of Editorial Board of "Medycyna Pracy";  Member of Editorial Board of "International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health";  Member of Editorial Board of "Acta Toxicologica" (2002-2010);  Member of Editorial Board of "Comments in Toxicology" (2000-2007).

Santonen Tiina

Finland

Santos-Burgoa Carlos

United States of America (USA)

Saracci Rodolfo

France

Emeritus

Sardas Semra

Turkey

Sari Kovats

Great Britain

Sasco Annie Jeanne

France

Emeritus

Annie J. Sasco, MD PhD, is currently team leader of Epidemiology for Cancer Prevention in an Inserm (NIH) research unit at the school of public health of the Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University in France. After having training at the Bordeaux medical school, she went to Harvard where she earned two masters and a doctoral degree in epidemiology, while also working as a teaching fellow of Harvard University. She then worked for 22 years at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, including 9 years as Group Leader and then Unit Chief of Epidemiology for Cancer Prevention and 2 years as Acting Chief of the Cancer Control Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr Sasco is a European expert on the human health effects of growth promoters used in animal husbandry. She also holds Visiting Professorship appointments at the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, USA and at the Faculty of Veterinarian Medicine and Zootechny, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Having been described as an “over-graduated woman”, she considers herself a positive mix of a European-American medical-scientific training providing her with the background and expertise needed for carrying out sound, methodologically valid, yet innovative epidemiologic research, which she then translates to policy-making individuals and institutions. Her major goal is to contribute to the inspiration and formation of future generations of scientists and citizens, including her own children. She is a convinced feminist. Dr. Sasco is the author of more than 400 publications including more than 135 indexed in Medline and has numerous editorial activities for peer-reviewed journals. She is currently the member of many expert committees, scientific and other boards, as well as civil societies groups. She is co-founder and vice-president of the European Society of Environmental Health and a member of the Ethics and Philosophy group of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology. In 2005, she was one of the 1000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A 1 citizen of the world, she speaks and works in French, English and Italian, with notions of German and Spanish.

Sass Jennifer

United States of America (USA)

Scheepers Paul

Netherlands

Schlünssen Vivi

Denmark

Sen Krishna Nirmalya

India

Sharshenova Ainash

Kyrgystan

Silbergeld Ellen K.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (with joint appointments in Epidemiology and in Health Policy and Management) at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, conducts research that connects environmental and occupational exposures to health risks in human populations. Her research has employed both experimental models and epidemiological studies to accomplish these goals. Her areas of current research include: understanding the environmental and human health impacts of antibiotic use in food animal production, understanding the mechanisms of mercury immunotoxicity and the potential role of immunologic dysfunction in mercury-induced neurodevelopmental toxicity, decreased host resistance to infection and increased risks of chronic disease and health risks associated with endocrine disruption. She is also involved in epidemiological studies of the effects of toxic metals on cardiovascular function. Dr Silbergeld received her BA degree summa cum laude from Vassar College and a Ph.D. from the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, with postdoctoral training in environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health. Prior to her current academic position, she held scientific positions at the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Defense Fund and the University of Maryland Medical School. She has been appointed to numerous consultant and expert advisory committees for the US EPA, CDC, National Research Council and the NIH; also for WHO, ILO, OECD, the World Bank, UNEP, and UNDP. She has also served on many peer review panels for NIH, EPA, NIOSH, NSF and other foundations, including chairing the epidemiology panel for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is editor in chief of Environmental Research. Dr Silbergeld's work has been recognized by fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Commission, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Public Health Association and a "genius" award from the MacArthur Foundation.

Sim Malcolm

Australia

Emeritus Professor Malcolm Sim AM, BMedSc, MBBS, GDipOccHyg, MSc, PhD, FAFOEM (RACP), FFPHM (RACP), FFOM (RCP), Hon FFOM (RCPI), Hon Fellow HKCCM Malcolm is an occupational and environmental physician and epidemiologist who is the past Head of the Monash University Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH) in Melbourne, Australia. In 2021 Malcolm retired from his role at Monash after 32 years and was appointed an Emeritus Professor. He developed a strong national and international research track record by establishing an extensive stable of large longitudinal cohorts of workers in ‘high risk’ industries and occupations. These cohort studies included data linkage and have investigated many workplace exposures and physical and psychological disease outcomes, which have informed improvements in policy and practice in these industries. He has published over 300 papers and is very active in international research collaborations, such as the OMEGA-NET occupational cohort network and the MODERNET network for occupational disease surveillance. He has a strong interest in translation of research findings, including being a past member of the Editorial Board of the Cochrane Work Review Group. Malcolm has also been a lead researcher of the silicosis epidemic among stonemasons working with artificial stone, which has now been banned in Australia. He was the Editor-in-Chief of .the BMJ specialty journal; Occupational and Environmental Medicine, for seven years and is a member of the Worksafe Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Committee. Malcolm is the immediate past President of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He was also a Board Member of the International Commission on Occupational Health for six years. In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini and in 2019 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to occupational and environmental medicine. During the COVID pandemic he has been a member of several COVID-19 advisory groups.

Siriruttanapruk Somkiat

Thailand

Siriwong Wattasit

Thailand

Sly Peter D.

Australia

Smith Don

United States of America (USA)

Smith Martyn Thomas

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Soffritti Morando

Italy

Solomon Gina M.

United States of America (USA)

Songnian Yin

China

Emeritus

Soskolne Colin L.

Canada

Emeritus

Colin Soskolne was born and raised in South Africa. He obtained his BSc (1970) and BSc Honours (1971) degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His first post-graduate position was as a statistician in education research with the South African Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria (1970 – 1973). He then moved into biostatistics with the National Research Institute for Occupational Diseases (NRIOD), subsequently named the National Centre for Occupational Health (NCOH). There, he focused on occupational mining-related diseases, both in toxicological and human studies (1973 – 1977), and he developed the integrated cardio-respiratory post-mortem pathology information system (PATHAUT), still operational today, serving administrative, research, and compensation functions. From 1978-1982, Colin pursued his doctoral training in epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His doctoral dissertation led to further research resulting in the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) designating, in 1992, occupational exposures to strong-inorganic-acid mists containing sulfuric acid as a definitive (Group 1) human carcinogen. Colin was awarded the 1983 Student Prize for the best doctoral dissertation by the Society for Epidemiologic Research. In early 1982, after his PhD training, Colin moved to Canada where he became an academic engaged in teaching, research and service roles. He was appointed Associate Professor and Director of the Epidemiology Research Unit for Ontario Cancer Care based in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. There, he not only furthered his research from his doctoral work, but, from 1982–1985, he also led a multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS research team. In 1985, he relocated to the University of Alberta in Edmonton where he was, soon after, promoted with tenure to Professor in what, over two decades, evolved into the School of Public Health. He established and directed its Epidemiology Program, and then led the building of its Graduate Training Programs. He furthered his research relating to the carcinogenicity of occupational exposures to acid mists while concluding his role with the University of Toronto’s HIV/AIDS research team by 1989. Towards the end of his tenure, he was Accreditation Coordinator in the Dean's Office of the School of Public Health (SPH) and he successfully led the self-study through its first two of three stages, contributing to making the University of Alberta's SPH Canada's first CEPH-accredited SPH in 2012. Of note, from 2008–2010, Colin served in the Provost’s Office, establishing the academic arm of the University-wide Office of Sustainability. After 28 years with the University of Alberta, Dr. Soskolne retired as Professor emeritus on June 30, 2013. Coinciding with his retirement, he was appointed adjunct professor in the Faculty of Health and then the Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Australia. He retired from this appointment at the end of 2019. He remains based in Montreal, Canada, where his pioneering work, started in the 1970s, in professional ethics and related issues of data privacy and conflicting interests in public health, continued until 2021 when he completed several publications and received the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2021 Research Integrity Award. Dr. Soskolne has authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited over 400 peer reviewed published papers, chapters, letters, books, editorials, commentaries, reports and proceedings. His website is accessible at the following link: www.colinsoskolne.com

Soto Ana

United States of America (USA)

Ana M. Soto, MD Dr. Ana M. Soto is a professor in the Department of Immunology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Membre Correspondent Étranger at the Centre Cavaillès, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS). Her research interests span a) the control of cell proliferation b) the developmental origins of adult disease, particularly the role of endocrine disruptors on carcinogenesis, reproduction and obesity, c) the role of biomechanics on organogenesis and carcinogenesis., and d) theoretical and epistemological issues arising from the study of complex biological phenomena. Together with Dr. Sonnenschein she co-authored a book entitled THE SOCIETY OF CELLS (published in English, French and Spanish) where they posited that the default state of cells in all organisms is proliferation, and proposed the Tissue Organization Field Theory of Carcinogenesis, in which cancer is viewed as development gone awry. As the Blaise Pascal Chair in Biology, she coordinated a multidisciplinary working group devoted to the elaboration of a theory of organisms. Dr. Soto is the recipient of several awards, including the 2012 Gabbay Biotechnology & Medicine Award of Brandeis University, presented to her, Dr. Sonnenschein and Dr. Hunt as a result of their contributions to public health. She has been elected a member of the prestigious Collegium Ramazzini, Carpi, Italy in 2011, awarded the Blaise Pascal Chair of Biology 2013-15 at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and awarded the Grand Vermeil medal of the city of Paris in 2019 for her pioneering role on endocrine disruption and her contributions to public health . She was recently referenced in the article titled “The Top 50 Women in STEM” by TheBestSchools.org (https://thebestschools.org/features/50-top-women-in-stem/). Due to her unique profile spanning theoretical and experimental biology as well as medical/health issues such as breast and prostate cancer and endocrine disruptors, Dr. Soto is frequently called to serve as member of government-sponsored advisory panels dealing with public health issues, among them the US-National Academy of Sciences, Swiss National Science Foundation, US-EPA, EU-Environmental Agency. She has also been invited to testify before legislative bodies (US Congress, French Assemblée Nationale, etc).

Spieler Emily

United States of America (USA)

Emily Spieler is Professor and Dean Emerita, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA, USA. She is an expert on labor and employment law, with a particular focus on workplace safety and compensation for work-related injuries and illnesses. In pursuing her academic career, she has written extensively about workplace safety and workers’ compensation, as well as whistleblower laws and related topics. Outside the academy, she has held several leadership positions in the public and non-profit sector in the U.S., and she has worked closely with the Institute for Work and Health (Toronto, CA) and the International Labour Organization. Professor Spieler served as Chair of the US Department of Labor Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee; as Chair of the US Department of Energy Worker Advocacy Advisory Committee regarding implementation of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act; and as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto. She was a member of President Obama's transition team for the Department of Labor, focusing on OSHA, and has served on numerous other national committees relating to workplace safety and compensation for occupational injuries. She was the primary drafter of the report “Does the Workers’ Compensation System Fulfill Its Obligation to Injured Workers?,” issued by the U.S. Department of Labor. Before becoming a law professor, she served as the head of the Workers’ Compensation Fund in West Virginia (where she was the sole chief executive of the exclusive state workers’ compensation fund,responsible for policy development and budget management); as Deputy Attorney for Civil Rights in West Virginia (where she was responsible for early implementation of reasonable accommodation for disabled employees, including work-injured workers); as a Commissioner on the West Virginia Human Rights Commission (responsible for enforcement of the West Virginia anti-discrimination law); and as a public member of the five-member WV Public Employees’ Insurance Board (responsible for designing and overseeing public employee health benefits). She is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Pound Institute for Civil Justice, and the American College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers, and an elected member of the National Academic of Social Insurance (where she has served on committees relating to workers’ compensation and the social insurance response to the Covid-19 pandemic).

Stayner Leslie Thomas

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Stein Renato T.

Brazil

Straif Kurt

United States of America (USA)

Kurt Straif was Senior Epidemiologist (since 2001), then Head of IARC Monographs and later Head of the Section of Evidence Synthesis and Classification at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, Lyon, France (until 11/2018), where he directed the programs of the IARC Monographs, the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention and the WHO Classification of Tumours. Major achievements with global impact include the series of IARC Monographs on tobacco, which prepared the way for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the series of IARC Monographs on air pollution. As part of his research activities on environmental and occupational risk factors for cancer he has co-initiated several large international pooling projects (including AGRICOH with US NCI; SYNERGY, with IRAS and IPA/DGUV). He serves on many national and international committees on primary and secondary prevention of cancer. He has a long record of teaching medicine and epidemiology and served as the Scientific Director of the IARC International Summer School on Cancer Epidemiology since 2010. Since his retirement from IARC he is continuing his research into environmental risk and preventive factors of cancer at ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain and as a Visiting Professor at Boston College, MA, USA. Since 2020 his research and policy work also covers COVID-19, particularly occupational risk factors. He is a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini since 2007, and attended his first Collegium meeting already in 1991. He received the Champion of Environmental Health Research Award of the US NIEHS (2016), the Distinguished Lecture in Occupational and Environmental Cancer of the U.S. NCI (2018), and the ISEE Research Integrity Award (2019). He has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers and was Editor and Associate editor of several books (including The World Cancer Report; Air pollution and Cancer; Social Inequalities in Cancer). He studied Medicine and Philosophy (Theory of science) at the Universities of Liège (Belgium), Heidelberg and Bonn (Germany). He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine (University of Bonn) and in Occupational, Environmental and Social Medicine (University of Giessen). He received his MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (USA) and his Habilitation in Epidemiology and Social Medicine from the University of Münster (Germany).

Sugimura Takashi

Japan

Emeritus

Suk, William Alfred

United States of America (USA)

Dr. Suk is as an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is also Adjunct Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea; Adjunct Professor, Department of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; and has been on a number of occasions Visiting Scholar in Residence, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, and Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. Dr. Suk is Director, non-profit Foundation: Advancing Research on Children’s Environmental Health: https://arceh.org/, whose aim is to promote transdisciplinary and translational research among early investigators (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) whose research primarily focuses on improving children’s health. Dr. Suk was Chief, Hazardous Substances Research Branch, and Director, Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Training Program [Superfund Research Program], National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). His primary interest is in the assessment of adverse effects on human health, primarily in vulnerable populations, resulting from exposure to deleterious environmental agents. Aside from a two-year period in which he was the Acting Deputy Director of NIEHS, Dr. Suk has served since its inception as Director of the NIH/NIEHS Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Training Program, a unique Program fostering interdisciplinary research and training approaches to address the complex problems associated with potentially hazardous environmental exposures, and to develop technologies to reduce these exposures, thereby reducing the burden of disease. Dr. Suk is currently or has been affiliated with a number of organizations and committees, including: member, roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; member, International Advisory Board of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand; co-chaired the World Health Organization Consultation on Scientific Principles and Methodologies for Assessing Health Risks in Children Associated with Chemical Exposures; Chairman, Board of Directors of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health. Dr. Suk received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from American University, his Ph.D. in microbiology from the George Washington University Medical School, and his Masters in Public Health in health policy from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been or is on the editorial advisory boards of several international journals; is a member of several scientific societies; and has been a National Science Foundation fellow. Dr. Suk has been honored at the NIH with several NIH Director’s Awards and with numerous NIH Award of Merit for his efforts and has received the DHHS Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service. He was privileged with receiving the Roy E. Albert Memorial Award for Translational Research in Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati; the Child Health Advocacy Award from the Children’s Environmental Health Network; the John P. Wyatt Lecture Award in Environmental Health and Disease from the University of Kentucky; the Adel F. Sarofim Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Championing Research on the Origin, Fate and Health Effects of Combustion Emissions; the Society of Toxicology Founders Award; and the first Chairman’s Award from the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health. Dr. Suk is a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini, the international society of scholars in environmental and occupational health. Dr. Suk is a Senior Fulbright Global Scholar, enabling him to help increase capacity primarily in children’s environmental health at universities primarily in Thailand as well as in the South-East, and East Asian regions.

Suraweera Inoka Kamalinie

Sri Lanka

Takahashi Ken

Japan

Emeritus

Takala Jukka

Finland

Dr. Takala holds a BSc and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering, and a Doctorate in Engineering (D.Sc. Tech.) from the Tampere University of Technology (Finland); studied Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology, Industrial Economics at the Helsinki School of Economics and Occupational Safety and Health at the Tampere University of Technology (Finland). He worked in metal industry as a design engineer from 1968-70 and for the Helsinki University of Technology as assistant lecturer from 1971-73. Dr Takala has held the posts of Inspector, Safety Engineer, Chief Engineer and Chief of Machine Safety Bureau in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Ministry of Labour in Finland from 1973. He joined the ILO as Chief Technical Adviser and Expert in Occupational Safety and Health in Nairobi (Kenya) in March 1978 and then in Bangkok (Thailand) in June 1983. Appointed Chief of the ILO’s International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre, CIS, in September 1986 and Chief of the Safety and Health Information Services Programme in January 1994. Appointed Chief of the Occupational Safety and Health Branch in June 1996. Appointed Director of the InFocus Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment (SafeWork) of the International Labour Office from 1 October 1999 and continued until 15 September, 2006. He joined the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in Bilbao, Spain on 16 September 2006 as the Director of the EU Agency and worked for the full five year term until his retirement from the European Union Service on Sep 15 2011. He then joined the Workplace Safety and Health Institute of the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore on 28.12.2011 as the first Executive Director of the Institute, and continued later as a Consultant for the Ministry until his retirement on 28.December 2017. He is currently (2015-2021) the President of the International Commission on Occupational Health that has Headquarters in Rome, Italy. _____ Dr. Jukka Takala (Adjunct Prof) DSc MSc BSc FFOM (Hon), Executive Director emeritus President International Commission of Occupational Health Commission Internationale de la Santé au Travail Comisión Internacional de Salud en el Trabajo ICOHPresident@inail.it www.icohweb.org

Taskinen Helena

Finland

Emeritus

Teitelbaum Daniel T.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Teixeira João Paulo

Portugal

Thayer Kristina

United States of America (USA)

Tompa Anna

Hungary

Emeritus

Toren Kjell O.

Sweden

Emeritus

Vainio Harri

Finland

Emeritus

Van Damme Karel

Belgium

Venugopal Vidhya

India

Vicini Andrea

United States of America (USA)

Vinceti Marco

Italy

Vineis Paolo

Italy

von Braun Joachim

Germany

Von Braun Margrit

United States of America (USA)

Wagner Gregory

United States of America (USA)

Walusiak-Skorupa Jolanta

Poland

Wang Jung-Der

Taiwan

Dr. Wang conducted studies to improve health policies on occupational, environmental and public health for Taiwan and the world. He has been recognized as a fellow of the Ramazzini Collegium since 2001. His contributions are summarized in the following two paragraphs: (1) Documentation of occupational and environmental diseases and establishment of a hazard communication system and occupational medicine specialty in Taiwan: Owing to strong support from colleagues, Dr. Wang has documented about 20 different kinds of occupational and environmental diseases in Taiwan, including hepatitis caused by carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, dimethyl formamide and dimethyl acetamide; cancer caused by vinyl chloride & trichloroethylene; acute renal failure caused by ethylene glycol; polyneuropathy induced by n-hexane and lead, impairment of intelligence in kindergarten children caused by increased lead absorption, manganese induced Parkinsonism; toluene diisocyanate asthma; mercury poisoning, dermatoses caused by kerosene and thiazolidone, skin cancer caused by bipyridines manufacturing, etc. Based on documented articles of these experiences, he (1) convinced the Taiwan government to promulgate the first hazard communication laws in Asia in 1993;(2) first reported different effects of prevention for head injury by full-face and half-face helmets to support the enforcement policy of helmets in 1996; (3) established the specialty of occupational and environmental medicine in 2001; (4) assisted in epidemiologic studies for residents living inside buildings of radioactive contaminated steel rebar as a basis to obtain national compensation in 2002;(5)documented that Chinese herbal products containing aristolochic acid were associated with nephropathy and urinary tract cancer to support the policy on banning such products in 2003. (6) He was the first in the world to demonstrate that effective treatment of HIV/AIDS can control the epidemic of this disease with evidence and data from Taiwan in 2004, and the strategy has been adopted by WHO and shared worldwide. Later on, many randomized trials validated this control policy. (7)He has published 7 scientific studies as evidence and testified for 3 full days in court to help previous RCA/GE workers win the law-suit of occupational cancer (from district up to supreme courts) in 2018, a rare case in the world. (2) Development of general methods to quantify health outcome and improve equity, efficiency, and sustainability of healthcare services under the universal coverage system: Because of financial difficulties, there is currently a paradigm shift from pay-by-volume to pay-by-value in healthcare services, and the value is usually defined as “outcome per dollar spent”, under both the patient’s and societal perspectives. Together with Dr. J.S. Hwang of the Academia Sinica, Dr. Wang proposed to extrapolate survival function to lifetime and multiply it with a second function, e.g., quality of life (QOL), costs, functional disability, productivity, etc. to obtain a lifetime impact of the disease under study, and the effects of prevention can be quantified by comparing with age-, sex-, and calendar year-matched referents simulated from vital statistics. Through inter-linkages of big datasets (e.g., national health insurance claims database, national mortality registry, national cancer registry, birth registry, etc.) and application of the novel methods, we were able to quantify the life expectancy (LE), loss-of-LE, QALE (quality-adjusted life expectancy), loss-of-QALE, and lifetime healthcare expenditures for different catastrophic illnesses and improve national health policies as follows: (1)By evaluating the QOL & cost-effectiveness of prolonged mechanical ventilation, he provided evidence to modify the national regulations to remove ventilators at the end of life in 2013, which cut costs from 16.9 billion NTD in 2014 down to 12.2 billion in 2019. (2)He showed that in comparison with hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis would save US$ 2,962 per QALY (quality-adjusted life year) and US$ 33,353 over lifetime. (3) He demonstrated that before 2010 the diagnosis & treatment of major cancers in Taiwan were generally below US$ 10,000 per QALY. (4)He also quantified how much could we save by successful prevention of cancer and catastrophic illnesses. (5)Opioid agonist treatment would save 9.7 QALY compared to those without such a treatment, indicating a viable choice for control. Beginning in 2013, Dr. Wang’s studies have been cited more than 1000 times in Google scholar citation every year, with an H-index: 69 and i10-index 324。

Wang Sheng

China

Watterson Andrew

United Kingdom (UK)

Wegman David

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

David H. Wegman became Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2009. He came to the university in 1987 as founding Chair of the Department of Work Environment and then in 2003 was named the founding Dean of the UMass School of Health and Environment. He also serves as Adjunct Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health where he continues to teach graduate students. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his M.D. and M.Sc. from Harvard University and is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine (Occupational Medicine). Before joining the faculty at UMass Lowell, he served as Professor and Director of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health at the UCLA School of Public Health and on the faculty at Harvard School of Public Health. His post-training career began in the US Public Health Service as an epidemiologist and in the Massachusetts state government as Occupational Hygiene Physician. Currently he serves as a member of the board of directors and Treasurer of the Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health Dr. Wegman has published over 200 papers on results from his epidemiological research on occupational diseases, public health and policy issues concerning hazard and health surveillance, methods of exposure assessment for epidemiologic studies, the development of alternatives to regulation and the use of participatory methods to study occupational health risks. At the time he retired from full-time faculty he was engaged in examining health and safety risks among construction workers involved in the building of the Third Harbor Tunnel and the underground Central Artery in Boston and in the study of the relationship of work risks and age both among child laborers and older adults. Since becoming an emeritus professor, he changed course and joined an effort to address the consequences of an epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown cause (CKDu) in Central America. He served as principal investigator in 2014-2016 for the Work, Health and Efficiency Study in El Salvador where he completed a study examining the effectiveness of an intervention for the prevention. In 2017 he became principal investigator of the Adelante Initiative research program in Nicaragua continuing this work by studying the effective implementation of an improved intervention regimen at a Nicaraguan sugar mill designed t protect agricultural workers from acute and chronic effects of heat stress including CKDu. Dr. Wegman’s professional engagement has included service as Treasurer and Member of the Executive Board of the International Epidemiological Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Commission on Occupational Health as well as Chair of its Scientific Committee on Epidemiology in Occupational Health. He has been an active participant in a number of National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) standing committees and expert panels and was named a National Associate of the National Research Council in 2002. Dr. Wegman assisted the federal government as Chair of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration's Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Pneumoconiosis Among Coal Mine Workers, as a member of the OSHA Standards Advisory Committee on Metal Working Fluids, and as a consultant to the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on the agency’s extramural research program and on research needs concerning aging and work. He also served on the National Toxicology Program’s Board of Scientific Counselors, the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors and the EPA Scientific Advisory Board. An example of his non-government service was chairing the Occupational Health Advisory Board for the United Auto Workers and the General Motors Corporation for its initial 12 years. Dr. Wegman is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and a member of the editorial board of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. Previously he was a member of the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Public Health, the Epidemiology Monitor and the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. In 1998 he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Fellowship for study of Health and Safety of Older workers in Sweden followed by an appointment in 2006 as chair of the International Evaluation Group for an analysis of Occupational Health Research in Sweden. Among his honors are the Alfred L. Frechette Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association (1979), the Harriet L. Hardy Award from the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (1994), the Jameson Parkinson Memorial Lecturer for the British Society of Occupational Medicine (2003) and the Alice Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award from the Occupational Health and Safety Section, American Public Health Association (2004). Most recently he received the EPICOH award for outstanding contributions to occupational epidemiology (2014), the precursor to the EPICOH Lifetime Achievement Award.

Welch Laura

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Wesseling Catharina

Costa Rica

Emeritus

White Roberta F.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Woitowitz Hans-Joachim

Germany

Emeritus

Wolff Mary S.

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Woodruff Tracey J.

United States of America (USA)

Woskie Susan

United States of America (USA)

Emeritus

Wright Robert Orrin

United States of America (USA)

Yano Eiji

Japan

Zeise Lauren

United States of America (USA)

Zhang Luoping

United States of America (USA)

Zhao-Lin Xia

China

Emeritus

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