CU CONSORTIUM FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH - Key Persons

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• Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Stewart-Ibarra's research focuses on understanding the role of climate and social vulnerability in the emergence and persistence of dengue fever, zika, cholera and other infectious diseases in Latin America. For the last 10 years, she has collaborated with academic and government institutions in the region to conduct operational research, participatory community-based studies, and surveillance studies, principally in Ecuador, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic. Since joining SUNY UMU in 2012, she has led the establishment of an integrated virus-vector-climate surveillance platform for research and training in Machala, Ecuador. Dr. Stewart-Ibarra is the Director of the Latin America Research Program of the Center for Global Health and Translational Science at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She received her PhD in ecology from the SUNY College of Enivronmental Science and Forestry and Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

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• Professor of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado - Boulder

Balaji Rajagopalan received his B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India in 1989, an M.Tech. degree in Optimization and Reliability engineering from Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, in 1991 and, a Ph.D. from Utah State University, Logan, UT, in 1995, with a specialization in stochastic hydrology and hydroclimatology. Following this he worked as a Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY, before joining the faculty of Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, as Assistant Professor in fall 2011. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and to full Professor In 2010. He is the Chair of CEAE since Fall 2014. Competition for freshwater resources is intense as global populations increase. Given the spatial and temporal variability of the resource, constrained water quantity and quality have emerged as dominant global risk management and sustenance concerns for the 21st century. His research program is an interdisciplinary effort to address these problems. This entails three interconnected themes: (i) Understanding the large-scale climate drivers of year-to-year and multidecadal variability of regional hydrology (i.e., precipitation, streamflow etc.) (ii) Developing ensemble hydrologic forecast and simulation tools that incorporate the large-scale climate information and, (iii) Coupling the forecasts with water resources decision support system. His research has proven to be of immense value in the operations, management and planning of water resources in the semi-arid river basins of Western USA, especially the Colorado River System. For this he was a co-recipient of the Partners In Conservation Award from the Department of Interior in 2009. In addition, he has made significant contributions to understanding the Indian summer monsoonal climate variability and predictability. For his joint work on unraveling the mystery of Indian summer monsoon droughts that appeared in Science in 2006 he was a co-recipient of the prestigious Norber Gerbier Mumm Award from the World Meteorological Organization in 2009. He has also developed statistical tools with collaborators to model and quantify uncertainty in a variety of areas such as, drinking water quality, waste water treatment resiliency, building systems energy, construction delay management due to weather and climate and agriculture management. His diverse educational background (engineering, optimization, stochastic Methods, hydroclimate) and research experience has facilitated the development of a robust interdisciplinary research program. Which is reflected in his publication record of over 130 articles in leading diverse journals like Science, Nature Geoscience, Water Resources Research, Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters and, Environmental Science and Technology, ASCE Construction Engineering and Management, Building Performance and Simulation. He has taught courses in Hydraulics, Hydrology, Civil Engineering Design, Hydroclimatology and Statistical methods. He has advised and co-advised 15 Ph.D. dissertations and 16 M.S. theses. He has served on the US CLIVAR panel on Prediction, Predictability and Applications, one of the main bodies that help set the US climate research agenda. He served as associated editor of ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management and Geophysical Research Letters and currently serves as an associate editor of Water Resources Research and Climate Research.

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• Assistant Research Professor, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Carlos received his Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy and Biochemistry from the University of Trujillo in La Libertad, Peru. He received his Master's degree in Pharmacy and Biochemistry from the American Evaluation and Translation Service in Miami, Florida. Carlos' greatest interest is in conducting animal studies including complex surgeries to install implantable sensors for continuous remote monitoring and more recently, to install both portal and femoral vein catheters for PK/PD studies. Carlos has 25 years of experience working at the University of Trujillo, Peru (1992-2002), at Baylor College of Medicine (2003), at the University of Florida (2004-2008), and currently at the University of Colorado (2008- present). He is an expert in minor and major surgery with rats and mice and is a key resource to the Renal Division in the design and implementation of animal experiments, including animal housing, administration of tests drugs, surgeries, collection of blood and urine and harvest of tissues at the conclusion of experiments. Another interest he shares is the general area of tissue histology. He is the Division's manager providing training and supervision for the suite of the state-of-the-art equipment by Leica including an automated tissue processor, embedder, microtome and cryostat as well as an Aperio ScanScope. He is also a resources for the Division in tissue staining, immunohistochemistry and advanced image and analysis software.

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• Emergency Medicine Physician in Denver

Cecilia Sorensen, MD is an Emergency Medicine physician in Denver. She received her BA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and MD from Drexel University College of Medicine. She is founder and director of the Bush Medicine Partnership, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to bringing high quality health care to low resource communities. Her research and clinical interests include: impacts of climate change and human health, environmental toxicology and global health education.

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• Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado - Boulder

Colleen Reid's research focuses on the interaction of environmental and social exposures on population health with a particular focus on the health impacts of exposures influenced by global climatic changes and society's responses to those changes. Specifically, she has led research projects on the health impacts of the 2008 northern California wildfires, and the creation and evaluation of a national neighborhood-level map of vulnerability to extreme heat events. Trained in environmental epidemiology and spatial exposure assessment at the University of California, Berkeley, her post-doctoral training was in social epidemiology as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Reid is currently an assistant professor in Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Infectious Disease, School of Medicine and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Dr. Olson graduated medical school in 2007 from Michigan State University, followed by a Residency in Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin from 2007-2010. Following residency, he completed a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship in Lilongwe, Malawi, partnering with the University of North Carolina section of infectious diseases, to conduct several studies focusing on clinical trials and outcomes research. Dr. Olson began his pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Colorado in 2011. He worked with his mentor, Dr. Edwin Asturias, to develop and validate novel, cost-effective surveillance systems for febrile and diarrheal illnesses using smartphone symptom diary applications and other technologies. Dr. Olson hopes to further advance and study these systems, including measuring vaccine effectiveness in a community, performing larger-scale infectious disease surveillance using smartphone (mHealth) application and emerging field-based diagnostic testing, and evaluating syndromic surveillance with minimal diagnostic testing. As smartphones, social media, and new diagnostic tests become increasingly available in resource-limited areas, these tools have the potential to be a cost-effective method to study infectious disease.

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• Scientist at UCAR 's National / Center for Atmospheric Research
• Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Dr. Andrew Monaghan is an atmospheric scientist at UCAR's National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He is a guest

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• Director of Earth Lab 's Analytics Hub, University of Colorado Boulder
• Scientist at CU - Boulder

Dr. Brian Johnson is a remote sensing scientist at CU-Boulder and is the Director of Earth Lab's Analytics Hub. He has a B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Space Sciences from the University of Michigan. Brian has been involved in developing aircraft and satellite remote sensing systems and investigating new ways to apply these technologies to Earth science research and environmental monitoring. His current research interest is in the application of big data analytics to link disparate Earth observations across spatial and temporal scales, and mine the huge volume and variety of data to study the pace and pattern of environmental change and its ecological and societal impacts. He is the Principal Investigator for Earth Lab's Project Permafrost exploring analytical methods to pinpoint areas most vulnerable to the rapid warming of the Arctic threatening food security, wildlife habitat, transportation, infrastructure, and water quality and availability in the region.

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• DTM & H

Dr. Elaine Reno attended the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine training at Denver Health Medical Center/University of Colorado. She completed her Wilderness Medicine Fellowship in 2016 at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Reno has worked with the residency leadership on a number of projects, from curriculum development, resident evaluation, interviewing applicants, and mentoring medical students and residents. She was the co-creator of our very successful pre-med programs. Her academic interests involve curriculum development, student assessment, and finding innovative ways to effect educational change and inspire students.

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• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor in the Colorado School or Public Health 's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Dr. Katherine (Katie) Dickinson is an Assistant Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, located on the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Dickinson received her BS and MS degrees in Earth Systems from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University in 2008. She did her postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society scholar at the University of Wisconsin from 2008 to 2010, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 2010-2013. Before joining EOH, Dickinson spent four years as a Research Scientist/ Project Scientist with joint positions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and CU Boulder (CSTPR). An environmental economist by training, her interdisciplinary research examines human behaviors and decision making in the face of environmental and health risks. She is particularly interested in the role of social interactions and social networks in shaping risk perceptions and behaviors. Current and past projects include: Examining demand for improved cookstoves in Ghana Research on Emissions, Air quality, Climate, and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana (REACCTING) Prices, Peers, and Perceptions (P3): Improved Cookstove Research in Northern Ghana Mosquito control in Texas : Social feasibility and economic cost-benefit analysis Oil and gas in Colorado: Community risk perceptions Playing with Fire: Assessing the effects of risk interdependency and social norms on homeowners' wildfire mitigation decisions using choice experiments Measuring willingness to pay for mosquito control in Madison, WI Evaluating a sanitation promotion campaign in Orissa, India Examining households' malaria-related behaviors in Tanzania

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• Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Professor, Physician

Dr. Lee S. Newman is a professor, physician and entrepreneur. He is recognized internationally for his research, teaching, and community engagement in the field of occupational and environmental health, worksite health promotion, health informatics, occupational lung disorders, and immunotoxicology. He is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Colorado School of Public Health at the CU Anschutz Campus where he Directs the University's Center for Health, Work and Environment, a CDC Education and Training Center, and a CDC Center of Excellence in Total Worker Health®. He is also Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado. Taking a Total Worker Health approach to integrating worksite health promotion and health protection, as recommended by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), is a focus of Dr. Newman's research, teaching, and consulting. It provides the framework through which Dr. Newman and his team are addressing global worker health issues such as the impact and mitigation of heat stress and other occupational hazards in the agricultural sectors of banana, palm oil, and sugar. He and his colleagues advise employers on how to improve worker health, reduce injuries, improve worker well-being and improve productivity. His Center is collaborating with the Center for Global Health at CU Anschutz to introduce Total Worker Health in Latin America. Dr. Newman received his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Amherst College and his Masters of Arts degree in social psychology from Cornell University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He earned his MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, and pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado Denver/National Jewish Health, including three years post-doctoral research in both immunology and occupational/environmental medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine. Dr. Newman has authored over 165 scientific research papers, more than 100 books, chapters, and monographs, and is a popular international lecturer. He has served as a consultant to government agencies (including OSHA, NIOSH, CDC, FDA, EPA, DOE, NIH), corporations, small and medium sized enterprises, labor groups, and community organizations in his career.

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• Behavioral Scientist
• Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Dr. Mary Hayden (NCAR) is a behavioral scientist with over 13 years of experience working on weather, climate and health related linkages. She received her PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences in 2003 from the University of Colorado and is adjoint faculty at the University of Colorado School of Public Health as well as a Guest Researcher with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her primary research emphasis is on the human behavioral component of climate-sensitive health and disease issues, including community participatory research and the characterization of population vulnerability to weather and climate related health threats. Her current work focuses on improving health outcomes related to human plague in East Africa through enhanced surveillance; assessing the human behavioral role in the potential for the dengue vector mosquito Aedes aegypti to expand its range in the Americas; and addressing current adaptive capacity and future societal resilience to extreme heat vulnerability in North America. Mary also works on projects that are focused on better understanding the transmission dynamics of meningitis in the Sahel of Africa and malaria in Kenya.

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• Chief
• Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Richard J Johnson is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at the University of Colorado. Dr. Johnson has a major research interest in the underlying causes of kidney disease, diabetes and hypertension. His research has focused on the role of sugar (and particularly fructose). Most recently his interest have focused on the etiology of epidemics of chronic kidney disease in Central American and other hot areas of the world, and his group has linked this with recurrent heat stress and dehydration that may be exacerbated both by poor rehydration choices (soft drinks) as well as by increasing temperatures and heat waves. His group is actively studying the processes involved in protection against heat stress and dehydration and also potential ways these protective mechanisms can break down leading to acute and chronic kidney damage.

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• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health 's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Dr. Sara Paull is an Assistant Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She is a disease ecologist who research addresses questions at the interface of ecology and public health. She is broadly interested in studying how interactions between humans, animals and the environment influence infectious disease risk. Much of her research has focused on how climate change could affect transmission of macro-parasites and vector-borne infections. She takes an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approach to research questions, typically using a combination of mechanistic laboratory, mesocosm, and field experiments as well as modeling and statistical analysis of large-scale datasets. Her current work in the West Nile virus system is focused on developing mechanistic understanding of the drivers of weather-disease linkages, and improving predictive models of how risk will shift in the future. Sara earned a PhD in Ecology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a B.A. in Ecology from Dartmouth College.

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• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder

Dr. Tanya L. Alderete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology of Disease from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2014. Her postdoctoral training was in Environmental Epidemiology at USC where she focused on exposure to air pollutants and the pathophysiology of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Alderete's research integrates physiology, environmental epidemiology, and microbiome research. Her primary research goal is to determine whether exposure to environmental toxicants affect human health through alterations in the gut microbiome. For example, she is currently examining the associations between exposure to air pollutants, obesity, insulin, resistance, and the gut microbiome.

Over the preceding decades Dr. Terry O'Connor's passion for outside adventures has lead to a diverse set of roles: Ski Patroller. Expedition Manager. Emergency Physician. National Park Service Climbing Ranger. Expedition Doctor. High Altitude Researcher. His work has been featured with National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. His athletic aspirations and endeavors are numerous including skiing high above the arctic circle and even setting foot upon the summit of Mt. Everest. Currently, Terry is an emergency physician, EMS Director, and an Instructor for the University of Colorado Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. He serves as a course director the Diploma in Mountain Medicine course with the Wilderness Medical Society.

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• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health
• Professor

Elizabeth Carlton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. She is an environmental epidemiologist who is interested in the impact of environmental change on water-borne diseases, particularly in low-resource settings. Her current research includes work to estimate the potential impacts of climate change on water-borne diseases, using models that evaluate population vulnerability and adaptation strategies. She also studies environmental and social factors that influence transmission of neglected tropical diseases in Asia, including schistosomiasis in China and opisthorchiasis in Thailand. She has worked to document and understand the reemergence of schistosomiasis in southwest China. She is interested in methods that improve surveillance strategies for neglected tropical diseases, particularly in areas where disease control efforts have reduced the burden of disease and where reemergence is an ongoing concern. Professor Carlton teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses in environmental health. She received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California Berkeley, her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and her BS from Yale University. Prior to graduate school, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.

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• Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder

Evan Thomas is the Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a tenured Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Departments. Evan has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, is a registered Professional Engineer, and has a Masters in Public Health from the Oregon Health and Science University. Evan's technical background is in water and air testing and treatment applied in developing communities through to operational spacecraft. He founded SweetSense Inc. which is supported by USAID and the National Science Foundation to develop and apply satellite connected sensors monitoring drinking water services. Daily, the team is monitoring a million people's water supply across east Africa. Evan's research has been funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, USAID, the UN Foundation, the CDC, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the Gates Foundation, and others. As Chief Operating Officer of DelAgua Health from 2012-2016, Evan conceived, designed and directed a $25 million dollar public health intervention in Rwanda with the Government of Rwanda. The program reached 350,000 households with cookstoves and 102,000 households with water filters, in over 7,500 villages and 1.6 million people.

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• Research Associate
• Home Jaime Butler - Dawson
• Researcher With the Center for Health

Dr. Butler-Dawson is a researcher with the Center for Health, Work & Environment where she conducts international population-based research. Jaime received her PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa and has an MPH in Environmental Health from Boston University. Jaime serves as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Her main area of research is the impact of occupational and environmental exposures on agricultural workers. Current work examines the impact of nephrotoxic exposures on kidney function among sugarcane workers in Guatemala.

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• Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Environmental Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Jana Milford is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Environmental Engineering Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research integrates environmental engineering, law, and policy to assess environmental impacts of energy and transportation systems. Milford conducts her work using a variety of energy and environmental modeling tools including atmospheric chemistry and transport modeling, source apportionment modeling, life cycle assessment, and uncertainty analysis. Milford is the co-author of two textbooks: Integrated Environmental Modeling (A. Ramaswami, J. Milford, and M. Small, Wiley, 2004) and Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Third Edition (C. Kutcher, F. Kreith, J. Milford, CRC Press, 2018). Milford currently serves on the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission and the Health Effects Institute Research Review Committee. She holds a B.S. in Engineering Science from Iowa State University, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law.

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• Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Lemery is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is Chief of the Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. He is the immediate Past-President of the Wilderness Medical Society and has provided medical direction to National Science Foundation subcontractors operating at both poles, most recently serving as the EMS Medical Director for the United States Antarctic Program. Dr. Lemery has an academic expertise in austere and remote medical care as well as the effects of climate change on human health. He serves as a consultant for the Climate and Health Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and sits on the National Academy of Medicine's (IOM) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a past term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the co-Editor of Global Climate Change and Human Heath: From Science to Practice (Jossey Bass, 2015). He serves as an advisor to the organization Climate for Health (ecoAmerica) and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. From 2005-2012, he was the Director of Cornell Wilderness Medicine and a member of the Global Health Steering Committee at the Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Lemery was an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia and received his MD from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. From 2003-04 he was chief resident in Emergency Medicine at NYU & Bellevue Hospitals. He also currently holds academic appointments at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Harvard School of Public Health (FXB Center) where he is a Contributing Editor for its Journal Health and Human Rights and was Guest Editor for the June 2014 edition on ‘Climate Justice.' He is affiliate faculty of the Colorado School of Public Health.

Dr. James is an epidemiologist and a specialist in environmental systems and the long-term health effects of cadmium, arsenic, and other metals. She has experience in leading and conducting research projects. She was the principal investigator of the Cardiovascular Effects of Environmental Cadmium Exposure, a prospective cohort study funded by NIEHS to evaluate clinical cardiovascular disease associated with exposure to cadmium and in the SLVDS cohort (1R21ES021831-01A1). Dr. James also led a comprehensive research project for her dissertation in the SLVDS cohort investigating inorganic arsenic exposure and cardiometabolic outcomes in the SLVDS cohort. Findings from this research involved a sophisticated and novel exposure assessment of inorganic arsenic in drinking water in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. The complex approach involved reconstruction of lifetime exposure to inorganic arsenic through drinking water based on groundwater concentrations and self-reported consumption. Estimated individual level exposure was validated using speciated urine arsenic concentrations in historically collected biosamples. These epidemiologic studies are among the first to show associations with low-level arsenic exposure (<50 µg/L) and have direct relevance to the exposure range of the US population. Currently, her research includes metal exposure and long term chronic kidney clinical and preclinical outcomes and in-utero metal exposure and adverse birth and pregnancy outcomes.

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• Deputy Director at the Center for Health, Work and Environment, Deputy Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Total Worker Health

Lili Tenney Starr is the Deputy Director at the Center for Health, Work and Environment and Deputy Director of the new Rocky Mountain Center for Total Worker Health. She is an instructor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. She is Co-founder and Director of Health Links, an initiative to promote healthier jobs by providing businesses with expert advising, certification, and connection to local resources. She conducts research on ways of improving population health, worker and employer-based outcomes. Lili graduated from the Colorado School of Public Health with a Masters of Public Health concentrating in community and behavioral health and epidemiology. She is currently working on completing her DrPH.

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• Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Researcher at National Jewish Health in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Matthew Strand is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and has worked at National Jewish Health since 2001 on a variety of project involving observational studies, longitudinal data analysis, basic science experiments and clinical trials. Dr. Strand has developed methods to analyze air pollution data with measurement error, to better determine the relationship between health and air pollution for children with asthma. Dr. Strand is also active in teaching and mentoring students within the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics in the Colorado School of Public Health (University of Colorado, Anschutz). He has taught a graduate-level longitudinal data analysis course for the last ten years at UC Anschutz, and has analyzed many other data that are longitudinal or clustered in nature while at NJH.

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• Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Rochford received her doctorate and early postdoctoral fellowship training at the University of California at Irvine. She did a second postdoctoral fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla California, and was a staff scientist at Scripps and faculty at the University of Michigan before moving to Upstate Medical University in 2003. She was Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and then served as Vice President for Research. In 2014 she stepped down to spend more time on her research program and in August 2015, joined the faculty at the University of Colorado with a joint appointment in Immunology/Microbiology and Environmental/Occupational Health. She is the author of over 89 peer-reviewed publications, not counting her book chapters and invited reviews. She has served on NIH and DOD study sections. A primary area of Dr. Rochford's research interest is on malaria, a climate sensitive disease. She is the Director of the University of Colorado Consortium on Climate Change and Health.

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• Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder

Shelly Miller joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, as an Assistant Professor in August 1998. Dr. Miller held the distinguished position of Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, from October 1996 through August 1998. Dr. Miller completed her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. She also holds a MS degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley and a BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College. Dr. Miller investigates sources of indoor air pollution, assesses exposures to indoor air pollutant, and develops and evaluates indoor air quality control measures. Her research has focused on indoor air quality since 1991. Dr. Miller has extensive experience conducting full- scale chamber and field experiments, generating and measuring aerosols and bioaerosols, conducting both single and multiple tracer gas experiments, and indoor air quality modeling including both statistical and physical models. Dr. Miller's current research projects include modeling studies of industrial odors and wellbeing in Colorado communities, diesel exhaust pollution, indoor environmental quality and respiratory health, asthma and air pollution, and radon. She has published over 60 peer reviewed articles on air quality. Dr. Miller currently has access to and conducts research in three different laboratories. The first laboratory is the Join Center for Energy Management's Larson Building Systems Laboratories. This laboratory houses two separate full-sized chambers (sharing a common wall), both roughly 20 ft. x 20 ft. x 8 ft. in size, equipped with temperature and humidity controls and a computer-controlled mechanical ventilation system. One of the chambers is equipped with a state-of-the-art ultraviolet germicidal (UVGI) system currently used in a project sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigating the efficacy of UVGI for controlling tuberculosis. The second laboratory is the Environmental Microbiology laboratories of Professor's Mark Hernandez and Angel a Bielefelt. These laboratories are outfitted with customary microbiological support equipment including the following specialty items: large volume autoclaves, two Class II biosafety cabinets (biohoods), Olympus BH2 phase containment/disposal. The is Dr. Miller's own air pollution laboratory and field studies of air pollution and has the following specialty items: Multiple Orifice Uniform Deposition Impactor (MOUDI), velocity transducers, gas chromatography, fluormetry, Class II biosafety hood, Collision nebuilzers, particulate instrumentation, ozone instruments, etc.

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• Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and School of Public Health

Steve Berman is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and School of Public Health and holds an endowed chair in Academic General Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Colorado. He is also the director of the Center for Global Health in the Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Berman is a past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Berman has carried out many international research projects and has served as special advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has also served as a consultant to the Ministry of Health of many countries throughout the world. He helped design the WHO Case Management of Acute Respiratory Infections Program, which is now incorporated in the WHO Integrated Case Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). He has served as the pediatric clinical research consultant to the National Academy of Sciences Board of Science and Technology in Developing Countries (BOSTID) project on the etiology and epidemiology of acute respiratory infections carried out in 12 countries around the world. He is chair of the "Helping the Children" initiative that seeks to raise awareness of the unique physical and physiological needs of children following an international disaster. He is the editor of the disaster course manual Pediatrics in Disasters (PEDS), which was developed and is being disseminated in collaboration with the AAP and World Health Organization. Course materials are now available in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Cambodian, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. Well known for his contributions to pediatric education, Dr. Berman has authored four editions of his pediatric textbook entitled Pediatric Decision Making, and has published over 100 peer reviewed research articles and many textbook chapters related to common pediatric clinical problems, such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, and immunizations. He has also published a book on child advocacy and health policy entitled Getting it Right for Children: Stories of Pediatric Care and Advocacy. He is also an editor of Global Child Health Advocacy: On the Front Lines.