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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Staff
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Staff
Pages 125-138
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Howard J Cohen, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor of occupational safety and health management at the University of New Haven and an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rhode Island.
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He is the current chair of the ANSI Z88.2 Committee on Respiratory Protection and the chair of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Committee on Respiratory Protection. A member of the Industrial Hygiene Roundtable, he has served as the treasurer of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
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He teaches classes on clothing biophysics and textile testing and publishes on comfort and protection evaluations of textiles and clothing. Since 2015 he has been a member of the National Academy of M edicine Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health, advising the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory on its testing and research agenda.
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Her current research efforts focus on improving patient safety (medication safety, diagnostic safety, care transitions/handoffs in pediatric trauma, preventing health care acquired infections) , health care worker safety (protecting health care workers from communicable diseases through engineering-based solutions, workload management, reducing clinician stress and burnout)
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, and he was a member of the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. He is currently the director of the NIOSH-funded Occupational Health Internship Program and the associate director of the UCSF occupational and environmental medicine residency program.
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He is an American Industrial Hygiene Association fellow, a past member of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Equipment, a past member of the NFPA Respiratory Protection Equipment Committee, a past chair of the International Society for Respiratory Protection (ISRP)
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With the AFL-CIO, Mr. Kojola was responsible for developing strategies for securing new safety and health protections through federal and state regulations, coordinated with affiliates on leading a unified labor response to proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, and represented the AFL-CIO before government regulatory agencies, on federal advisory committees, and in consensus standard setting efforts.
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Some of the worker health topics she has studied include perchloroethylene in dry cleaning, exposures to wildland firefighters, occupational lead poisoning, lung disease in flavor manufacturing workers, aerosol transmissible diseases, respiratory protection for health care workers, and Valley fever.
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He is an honorary member, past director, and past president of the International Society for Respiratory Protection; a member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) /ASTM International F23.65 Practices for Respiratory Protection Committee; served as the chairman of ANSI/ American Society of Safety Engineers/Z88.2 Practices for Respiratory Protection Subcommittee; a member and a past chairman of the American Industrial Hygiene Respiratory Protection Committee; a past administrator of US ANSI ISO, TC 94/SC 15 TAG - Respiratory Protective Devices; and a past chairman of the air-purifying respirator standards project group.
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, a partnership of four university-based hazmat training programs funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences worker training program and supporting hazmat-related worker training initiatives throughout Environmental Protection Agency regions IX and X He had led WRUC's training initiatives for health care workers on aerosol transmissible disease hazards and California's Aerosol Transmissible Diseases Standard -- most recently with an emphasis on protections from SARS-CoV-2.
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regulatory agencies as well as global industry and government forums. He has served as a member of the National Academies Committee on Personal Protective Equipment, the board of the Americas section of the International Society for Respiratory Protection, and the board of directors of the National Safety Council, as well as the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety's National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory PPE Conformity Assessment Working Group.
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STAFF Olivia Yost, M.Sc., is a program officer with the Board on Health Sciences Policy. She has supported multiple consensus study and workshop committees related to the topics of respiratory protection, preparedness, and occupational health -- most recently, the Committee on Best Practices for Assessing Mortality and Significant Morbidity Following Large-Scale Disasters, the Committee on Current Issues in the Assessment of Respiratory Protective Devices, and the Committee on the Use of Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care.
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Prior to joining the National Academies, Ms. English was a legislative assistant at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association as well as a legislative assistant for health policy for U.S.
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Pope has served as the director of the Board on Health Sciences Policy, which oversees and guides a program of activities that is intended to encourage and sustain the continuous vigor of the basic biomedical and clinical research enterprises needed to ensure and improve the health and resilience of the public. Ongoing activities include forums on neuroscience, genomics, drug discovery and development, and medical and public health preparedness for catastrophic events.
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