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Advisory council and workgroups

 

Advisory Council Members

The Environmental Public Health Tracking Advisory Council is a team of health and environmental experts who:

  • Facilitate the evaluation and implementation of the CDC 5-year program

  • Develop a comprehensive plan for an EPHT Network that is compatible with CDC/national standards

  • Evaluate the findings of the Coordinating Committee (see below) and make recommendations

  • Utilize these findings and recommend priorities and strategies to CDC

  • Produce and submit reports to CDC
     

 

Name Agency/Institution
Melissa Jordan FLDOH, Principal Investigator
Dr. Carina Blackmore FLDOH, Bureau Chief
Chris Duclos FLDOH, GIS Manager
Jane Correia FLDOH, Birth Defects
John Folsom FLDOH, Database Manager
Tammy Eagan FLDEP, Air Monitoring
Brenda Olsen, RN American Lung Association
Dr. Ming Chan FLDOH, Laboratory
Meade Grigg FLDOH, Planning, Eval, & Data Analysis
Dr. Cynthia Harris FAMU, Toxicology
Dr. Youjie Huang FLDOH, Florida Cancer Data System
Dr. Lora Fleming University of Miami
Heidi Fox FL, Agency for Healthcare Administration
James Mosteller American Heart Association

 


 

Coordination Committee Members

The Environmental Public Health Tracking Coordination Committee is comprised of technical experts in data management, GIS and statistics. The Coordination Committee represents the technical ?"arm' of EPHT. It utilizes expert abilities on data linkages and consolidates and reviews recommendations made from the Advisory Council.

Name Agency/Institution
Melissa Jordan FLDOH, Principal Investigator
Chris Duclos FLDOH, GIS Manager
John Folsom FLDOH, Water Programs
Jane Correia FLDOH, Birth Defects
Dr. Carina Blackmore FLDOH, Environmental Epi/Medicine
Dr. Youjie Huang FLDOH, FCDS
Barbara Bewerse FLDOH, Asthma Program
Anil Nair FLDOH, Biostatistics
Meade Grigg FLDOH, Planning, Evaluation, & Data Analysis
Julie Kurlfink FLDOH, CLPPP Program
Tammy Eagan FLDEP, Air Monitoring Program
Chris Keller FLDOH, CHARTS web portal
Kenna Study FLDEP, Water Program

 

Committee Workgroups

The Coordination Committee is divided into the following workgroups:

  • Asthma
  • Birth Defects
  • Cancer
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Env/Data/GIS
  • Lead

The workgroups allow the appropriate members of the Coordination Committee to focus on the specific details of particular health outcome data sets and environmental data sets. In addition, the smaller size of the Workgroups allows for easier decision-making on the specifics of the GIS analysis.

Asthma Selected Birth Defects

Melissa Jordan

Dr. Russ Kirby, USF
Selected Cancers Technical Advisory Workgroup
Dr. Jill Mackinnon Chris Duclos, FDOH
Lead Poisoning Environmental Data & GIS
Rosanna Barrett, FDOH Chris Duclos, FDOH

 

Grant Coordination Team

Name
Melissa Jordan (PI)
Dr. Carina Blackmore
Chris Duclos
Rebecca Thomas
John Folsom
Jim Zhang