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Sandy Buchanan
Sandy Buchanan is Executive Director of Ohio Citizen Action, the
state’s largest consumer and environmental organization. In
the 1980s, Ms. Buchanan worked with communities to pass some of
the first local right-to-know laws in the country. She has served
on Ohio’s State Emergency Response Commission, which oversees
implementation of the right-to-know laws, and has been a leader
in campaigns to oppose environmental secrecy laws in Ohio.
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Peter Infante, Doctor of Public Health,
D.D.S.
Peter Infante is director of the Office of Standards Review in the
Health Standards Program of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
OSHA is the federal agency that sets standards for workplace safety,
including limits on exposure to toxic substances. Dr. Infante’s
office is responsible for regulation of toxic substances in the
workplace.
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Philip Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., D.I.H.
Philip Landrigan is Chairman of the Department of Community and
Preventative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York and director of Mount Sinai’s Center for Children's Health
and the Environmental. He is a professor of pediatrics and preventative
medicine, and a former senior advisor to the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for Children’s Health and the Environment.
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Richard Lemen, Ph.D.
Richard Lemen retired as Assistant Surgeon General of the United
States and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1996. NIOSH is the Federal agency responsible
for conducting research on work-related disease and injury and making
recommendations to improve safety and health.
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Gerald Markowitz, Ph.D.
Gerald Markowitz is a public health historian who has written extensively
about occupational and environmental health. He is a professor of
history at John Jay College and professor in the Graduate School
and University Center at City University of New York. He is author
of nine books.
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Albert Meyerhoff, Attorney
Albert Meyerhoff has specialized for nearly 30 years in labor,
civil rights and environmental law. In 1981, he joined the Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC) as Director of their Public Health Program.
He specialized in litigation concerning toxic substances and occupational
health and brought successful challenges to the continued use of
cancer-causing pesticides.
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Michael McCally, M.D., Ph.D.
Michael McCally is a public health physician and Professor and Vice
Chairman of the Department of Community and Preventative Medicine
at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York where he is Co-Director
of the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment. He
has been a consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme
and active in efforts to reach a binding international agreement
to prevent release of persistent organic pollutants.
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David Rosner, Ph.D.
David Rosner is professor of Public Health and History at Columbia
University's MailmanSchool of Public Health and the Co-Director
of Columbia’s History of Public Health & Medicine. Dr.
Rosner is a former Distinguished Professor at City University of
New York, and adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at the Mount
Sinai School of Medicine.
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Jacqueline
Warren, Attorney
Attorney Jacqueline Warren specializes in environmental law and
regulatory policy issues. She is a member of the EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. Previously,
Ms. Warren served as senior staff attorney and director of the
Toxic Substances Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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