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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

The following organizations and people deserve acknowledgement for their support and contribution to the development of the Blueprint:

 

Wingspread Summit Participants:

 

Brenda Afzal, RN, MS

Nursing Consultant
Board Member, Children's Environmental Health Network

 

Deborah J. Bailin, PhD

Democracy Analyst, Center for Science and Democracy, Union of Concerned Scientists

 

Cynthia F. Bearer, MD, PhD

Mary Gray Cobey Endowed Professor of Neonatology
Associate Chair of Research Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics
University of Maryland School of Medicine

 

Tobie Bernstein, JD

Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute

 

Nisha Botchwey, PhD, MCRP, MPH

Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, Built Environment and Public Health Clearinghouse

 

Ellen Braff-Guajardo, JD, MEd

Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

 

Sylvia Brandt, PhD, MA

Associate Professor, Department of Resource Economics and Center for Public Policy and Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Joy Carlson, MPH

Carlson Consulting

 

Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, PhD

Professor of Environmental Medicine and Pediatrics, Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine

 

 

Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD

Director, Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, Children’s Environmental Health Sciences Core Center University of Wisconsin

 

David D Fukuzawa, MDiv, MSA

Managing Director, Health
The Kresge Foundation

 

Angela Harris

President, All From One Inc.
Member of Southeast CARE Coalition

 

Kim Knowlton, DrPH

Senior Scientist, Health and the Environment Program
Co-Deputy Director, Science Center
National Resources Defense Council

 

Tracy Kolian, MPH

Health Policy Specialist and Consultant, Children’s Environmental Health Network

 

David Levine

Cofounder & CEO, American Sustainable Business Council

 

Vickie Leonard, RN, FNP, PhD

Program Coordinator, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
Staff Specialist, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco

 

Mark Magaña

Executive Director, GreenLatinos

 

John A McLauchlan, PhD 

Celia Scott Weatherhead and Albert J. Weatherhead III Distinguished Chair in Environmental Studies
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Science and Engineering
Tulane University

 

Elise Miller, MEd

Director, Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)

 

Danielle Miller Wagner, MS

Center for Environmental Policy
American University
School of Public Affairs

 

Cynthia Moices

Assistant Director, UPROSE

 

Denise O’Brien
Owner, Rolling Acres Farm

 

Erik Olson, JD

Senior Strategic Director for Health and Food, Natural Resources Defense Council

 

Jerome A Paulson, MD, FAAP

Medical Director for National & Global Affairs
Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health & the Environment
Child Health Advocacy Institute
Children’s National Health System
Professor of Pediatrics and of Environmental & Occupational Health
George Washington University

 

Peggy Shepard

Executive Director
West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.

 

Jerry Waukau

Health Administrator, Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
National Tribal Environmental Health (NTEH) Think Tank Member

 

Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH

Executive Director, Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)

 

Advisors:

 

Gail Bingham

RESOLVE

 

Ken Cook

Environmental Working Group

 

Diana Derige

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

 

Richard Jackson

CEHN Advisory Board

 

Mark Magaña

CEHN Board Member

 

Kathy Seikel

Retired, Environmental Protection Agency

 

Peggy Shepard

Executive Director
West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.

 

Carol Strobel

Former CEHN Director of Training and Policy

 

Lisa Woll

CEHN Board Member


Reviewers:

 

Peter Ashley

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

 

Claire Barnett

Healthy Schools Network

 

Linda Birnbaum

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

 

Office of Child Health Protection

Environmental Protection Agency

 

Office of Research and Development

Environmental Protection Agency

 

National Center for Environmental Health Sciences

Center for Disease Control

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

 

Funding:

 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

 

The Johnson Family Foundation

 

Federal Partners:

 

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

 

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

 

Environmental Protection Agency

 

Center for Disease Control

 

Office of Children’s Health Protection

 

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

 

Office of Management and Budget

 

U.S. Department of Agriculture

 

National Library of Medicine

 

Department of Education

 

CEHN Staff:

 

Kristie Trousdale

 

Rachel Locke

 

Christie Louis-Jacques

 

Hester Paul

 

Robin Joseph

 

Brie Sleezer (intern)

 

Health Policy Consultant:

 

Tracy Kolian

 

 

With a special acknowledgement to long standing CEHN board member, Brenda Afzal, and to CEHN Executive Director, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon for their leadership and perseverance in making this work possible.

Contact Information

For more information or partnership opportunities, please contact the Children’s Environmental Health Network at (202) 543-4033