Environmental Justice Program| Health Effects Institute

HEI has established an Advisory Council and an Oversight Panel, to advance HEI’s environmental justice (EJ) work. Council and Panel members have expertise in environmental justice, environmental health, community engagement, and air pollution monitoring or modeling, among other areas of expertise.

Advisory Council
The Advisory Council is a multisectoral group comprised of representatives from academia, community groups, non-governmental organizations, and policymaking. The Council:
Provides strategic advice in establishing HEI’s initial EJ research program by identifying highest priority topics and programs where HEI can most effectively advance EJ.
Identifies approaches to ensure that the HEI EJ program achieves its mission.
Advises HEI on integrating EJ considerations into its other programs, policies, and activities.
The Council meets regularly to discuss the direction of the program, principles for engagement, research solicitation format and language, and ongoing needs in the EJ community.

Maria Harris Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund

Mychal Johnson Co-Founder, South Bronx Unite

Yukyan Lam Research Director and Senior Scientist, Tishman Center at the New School

Beto Lugo Martinez Executive Director, Clean Air Now Kansas City

Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Elizabeth Scheele Research Division Chief, California Air Resources Board

Oversight Panel
The Oversight Panel is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.

Jayajit Chakraborty Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso

Christina H. Fuller Associate Professor, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia College of Engineering

Melissa Gonzales Chair and Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Diana Hernández Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Neeta Thakur Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Madeleine Scammell Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

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HEI Environmental Justice Program: Our Team

Oversight Panel
The Oversight Panel is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.

You are here

HEI Environmental Justice Program: Our Team

Oversight Panel The Oversight Panel is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.

Oversight Panel
The Oversight Panel is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.