Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of the Speakers, Session Moderators, and Project Staff

LISA BROSSEAU, Sc.D., CIH now retired, was a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health from 2015 to 2018, where she was director of the Illinois Education and Research Center, which supported graduate and continuing education for occupational health and safety professionals and community outreach activities. She was also director of the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Healthy Work. Dr. Brosseau began her career as an academic researcher and educator at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where she directed the Industrial Hygiene Program. Her early research focused on the performance of respirator filters when exposed to hazardous aerosols such as silica and asbestos, and later expanded to include biological and infectious organisms. Her more recent research focused on respirator fit, using real-time methods and simulated workplace tasks to better understand how fit is influenced by realistic head and body motions. She continues to serve as a mentor and technical adviser on research projects and for businesses and organizations, including the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). Dr. Brosseau has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, delivered numerous platform research presentations, and has been an invited speaker at numerous local, national, and international conferences and workshops. She has written several articles for CIDRAP focused on respiratory protection for health care and other workers during outbreaks and pandemics.

SARAH COEFIELD, M.S., M.A., is an air quality specialist with the Missoula City-County Health Department. During wildfire smoke events, Coefield provides the community with wildfire smoke forecasts and health advisories. During the off-season, she works closely with community, nonprofit, and research partners to move Missoula County, Montana, closer to being a smoke-ready community. Coefiled recently served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus committee on Respiratory Protection for the Public and Workers without Respiratory Protection Programs at Their Workplaces, whose report was released in February 2022.

CRAIG COLTON, M.A., is a certified industrial hygienist with CCR Consulting, LLC, specializing in respiratory protection since 1978. He works independently conducting respiratory protection training and consulting on respiratory protection issues. Prior to working on his own, he worked in the Technical Service/Regulatory Affairs group of the 3M Personal Safety Division specializing in respiratory protection. He has conducted workplace protection factor studies on 3M respirators, monitored and responded to regulatory affairs issues related to respiratory protection and provided technical assistance to respirator users. Previously he was an instructor at the OSHA Training Institute where he was course chair for the respiratory protection course covering OSHA, NIOSH, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ANSI, Compressed Gas Association, CSA, and National Fire Protection Association standards as well as the complete range of respiratory protective devices. While at OSHA he was a member of the four-person team that first implemented quantitative fit testing for OSHA personnel. Colton has also taught continuing education courses for several universities and organizations. He is a past chair of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Respiratory Protection Committee and Americas’ Section of the International Society for Respiratory Protection (ISRP) (1998-2000; 2014-2016). He has authored several articles and book chapters on respiratory protection. He was a member of various ANSI subcommittees including the subcommittee on fit testing (Z88.10) and subcommittee on Practices for Respiratory Protection (Z88.2). He was a member of the ISO committee developing respiratory protection standards (TC94 SC15) for many years. This work included serving as convener for the working group that produced ISO 16972 on respiratory terminology and group lead for the ISO standard on fit testing. He is currently a member of the ASTM F23.65 Committee on respiratory hazards (previously ANSI Z88) most recently working on the new Respirator Fit Capability standard (ASTM F3407-20).

TINGLONG DAI, Ph.D., M.S., M.Phil., is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, with a joint faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. He serves on the leadership team of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative and the executive committee of the Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science. Dr. Dai’s research interests span across health care operations, global supply chains, and human-AI interaction. His work has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), Marketing Science, and Operations Research, and has been recognized by the Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, Production and Operations Management Society Best Healthcare Paper Award, and Wickham Skinner Early Career Award (runner-up). In 2021, he was named one of the World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors by Poets & Quants. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Dai has been quoted thousands of times in the media, including by the Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN, Fortune, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and has appeared on national and international TV such as CNBC, PBS NewsHour, and Sky News. He earned a Ph.D. in management of manufacturing and automation from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013.

BARBARA DEBAUN, M.Sc., has more than 40 years of experience in the field of infection prevention and quality improvement. She is currently an improvement advisor with Cynosure Health, where she provides vision and leadership in the development, implementation, and facilitation of infection prevention and quality improvement initiatives for health care organizations. Previously, she was an improvement advisor for BEACON, the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative, and was the director of patient safety and infection control at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. DeBaun is a certified infection control practitioner and holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Pace University in New York and a master of science degree in nursing from San Francisco State University. DeBaun provides infection prevention and quality improvement facilitation to a wide range of settings including urban, suburban, and rural health care facilities. Ms. DeBaun served 2 years as an elected member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Board of Directors. Prior to her board service, she served as APIC’s liaison to the Centers for Disease Control’s Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). DeBaun has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of patient safety and infection control topics and has published over a dozen articles and several book chapters.

CLAUDIO DENTE is the president and CEO of Dentec Safety Specialists Inc. Dentec Safety Specialists Inc. is a manufacturer, importer, and wholesaler of a variety of PPE serving Canadian distribution. Prior to that, he was the president and CEO of Degil Safety Products Inc. He has devoted his career to the personal protective equipment market and has specialized in startup operations. His area of expertise is developing distribution for personal protective equipment in North America in a variety of channels including safety equipment, industrial, welding, automotive aftermarket, and retail such as hardware, paint, sundry, and drug stores, and health care. He received his marketing diploma from Humber College in 1980.

BRENT DILLIE is a chemical engineer who began his career in fibers, polymers, and filtration working various manufacturing roles with Celanese before joining Essentra PLC as melt blown fiber research and development manager and eventually specialty filtration sales manager. He is the founder and current board member of the American Medical Manufacturers Association (formally the American Mask Manufacturers Association). Dillie is currently the managing director of Premium-PPE, one of the largest surgical mask and pediatric mask producers in the country, and CEO of Princo USA, a Virginia-based manufacturer of adult incontinence products.

PAUL DILLINGER is the vice president, head of global product innovation and part of the design team at Levi Strauss & Company. Following his passion for sustainability, Dillinger has been an integral partner with the company’s Social and Environmental Sustainability group, developing front-end methods for applied sustainability in the design process. Dillinger led the design team that created Levi’s WellThread^®—an experimental collection focused on sustainable innovation—through his fellowship with the Aspen Institute. He was also responsible for the design and execution of Project Jacquard, a wearable technology collaboration between Levi’s and Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects laboratory. Before joining Levi’s in 2010, Dillinger worked as a fashion designer and brand development specialist for 16 years at a variety of fashion houses in New York, including Calvin Klein and DKNY. He was appointed faculty at the Sam Fox School of Visual Arts and Design at Washington University in St. Louis and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, California College of the Arts, and Clark Atlanta University. Dillinger received his B.F.A. in fashion design from Washington University in St. Louis. After graduation, he moved as the first Fulbright scholar in the field of fashion design to Milan, Italy, where he earned a master of fine arts from the Domus Academy.

ÖZLEM ERGUN, Ph.D., is a College of Engineering distinguished professor and the associate chair for graduate affairs in mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on design and management of large-scale and decentralized networks. She has applied her work on network design, management, and resilience to problems arising in many critical systems including transportation, pharmaceuticals, and health care. She has worked with organizations that respond to emergencies and humanitarian crises around the world, U.S. Agency for International Development, United Nations World Food Programme, United Nations Human Rights Council, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Oxfam America, CARE USA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency, and MedShare International. Recently, Dr. Ergun partnered with the Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Elder Affairs and developed a platform to match qualified medical professionals to long-term care facilities with open positions around the state as part of the state’s response efforts to COVID-19. Dr. Ergun served as a member of the National Academies Committee on Building Adaptable and Resilient Supply Chains after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and as a member of the National Academies Committee on Security of America’s Medical Product Supply Chain.

STUART EVENHAUGEN, M.S., is a strategy and policy analyst at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. He previously served as a senior risk analyst for the Department of Homeland Security and also as a policy analyst for the Department of Health and Human Services, where he provided technical direction regarding medical countermeasure policy development and strategic planning. He earned his M.S. in general management from the Stockholm School of Economics. He attended Indiana University Kelley School of Business, where he earned a graduate certificate in business analytics.

MICHELLE FEINBERG, A.S., moved to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, and was simultaneously hired by Manhattan Scalloping, a leading embellishment factory. She quickly fell in love with embellishments and embroidery, ended up working there until she graduated, and then joined a private-label company as a loungewear and lingerie designer. That same year, Manhattan Scalloping went out of business and was purchased by Mona Slide Fasteners, which Feinberg decided to join. She became a partner at the firm before age 21. After 9/11, Feinberg started New York Embroidery Studio. When production

began to steadily move overseas, she jumped on the opportunity to visit large Chinese factories and learn about how to scale her manufacturing processes. She came back home and immediately applied these learnings, starting to mass produce embroidery and other designs. With COVID-19 came a new set of challenges, including a dangerous shortage of PPE. New York Embroidery Studio was able to completely pivot its production, and in March of 2020, the company began to work with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) to make gowns and masks: NYCEDC helped New York Embroidery Studio procure the necessary fabric, and Feinberg’s team successfully manufactured the highest quality personal protective equipment. In addition, with New York Embroidery Studio being one of the first to pivot into large-scale PPE production, many hospitals and government agencies started reaching out, and orders began to grow exponentially, with the company producing 2 million gowns and masks each week.

JOHN FLEMING, M.P.A., is currently the Public Health Preparedness bureau chief at Houston Health Department. He was previously the senior planner for the City of Houston, where he cocreated statewide evidence-based tools for jurisdictional risk assessments. In that position, he also reviewed and revised plans, protocols, standard operating procedures, and standard operating guidelines. He also previously served as manager IV of public health preparedness with the State of Texas, where he coordinated regional health and medical responses for Hurricane Ike and the H1N1 pandemic from the Regional Operations Center as incident commander. Fleming earned his master of public administration degree in nonprofit, public, and organization management with a concentration in disaster and emergency management from Sam Houston State University.

DANIEL GERARD, M.S., R.N., started his career in Newark, New Jersey, as an EMT and is the current president of the International Association of EMS Chiefs. He is also the EMS coordinator for the City of Alameda Fire Department. Previously Gerard served as the EMS coordinator and acting EMS director for the Oakland Fire Department. Gerard is a recognized expert in EMS System delivery and design. An author and EMS provider, Gerard is a nationally registered paramedic and registered nurse. He holds a master’s in health care administration and is a doctoral student.

GORDON GILLERMAN, director of the Standards Coordination Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Department of Commerce Standards Executive, leads NIST’s work in standards coordination and the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program. Mr. Gillerman supports extensive standards development

and advises federal agencies and other stakeholders on standards and conformity assessment policy. The Standards Coordination Office is the NIST standardization focal point for federal government, administers the NIST Standards Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program, operates the U.S. Inquiry Point for the World Trade Organization’s Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, is the U.S. Designating Authority for Telecom Mutual Recognition Agreements, and is a key information source for U.S. industry on standards related market access issues. Mr. Gillerman has extensive standards experience across a wide range of critical issues including homeland security, safety, health, and protection of the environment. He is an expert on conformity assessment systems design, an adviser to the U.S. Trade Representative on technical barriers to trade and related trade agreements, and has collaborated across the standards community to develop standards based solutions for national priorities throughout his career. He also provided direct support in the drafting and negotiation of the Technical Barriers to Trade Chapter of the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement.

DAN GLUCKSMAN is the public affairs director at the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA). He is known as a strategic and goal-oriented association professional, who has taken ISEA’s government relations programs to new levels. He provides ISEA member companies with actionable insights on federal policies allowing these employers to grow revenue and minimize risk. He has led several congressional and regulatory visits for manufacturing executives to achieve strategic objectives. His event management and planning skills have led to successful annual meetings and executive summits. In addition, his team-oriented approach has led to successful events. He has expanded stakeholder engagement through coalition participation and direct outreach. These activities have led to strategic alliances that move the association forward.

SUSAN GORMAN, Pharm.D., M.S., DABAT, is director of the Office of Science in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), which is managed by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). Her primary roles include oversight of the stockpile formulary and provision of technical and scientific advice on pharmacological and toxicological issues regarding the stockpile. Dr. Gorman’s first 19 years serving with the SNS were within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she responded to terrorism events such as 9/11 and the U.S. anthrax attacks, as well as other public health emergencies such as hurricanes, influenza pandemics, and Ebola outbreaks. Most recently, following the SNS’ transition to ASPR in 2018, she actively engaged in the COVID-19 response and the mpox response.

She participates in numerous intergovernmental working groups on counterterrorism involving radiological, chemical, and biological agents and is a recognized speaker on stockpiling for terrorist events and other large-scale public health emergencies. Dr. Gorman has published over 30 articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals on various toxicology or disaster-related issues, as well as several book chapters regarding disaster preparedness and antidotes used in toxicology.

ALEXIS GUILD, M.P.P., is the director of health policy and programs at Farmworker Justice (FJ), a national farmworker advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. She has been at FJ since 2011. She oversees FJ’s health promotion work, partnering with health centers, farmworker community-based organizations, legal services organizations, and advocacy organizations to ensure access to health care for farmworkers and their families. She also engages in policy advocacy and analysis on occupational safety and health care issues affecting farmworker communities. Ms. Guild has extensive experience in advocacy, public health, and community organizing. Prior to graduate school, she served as a health education volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Guatemala. Ms. Guild has a bachelor of arts degree from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan.

LINDA HAWES CLEVER, M.D., M.A.C.P., a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 1980, has served as a member, chair, or co-chair of several NAM/NASEM committees and subcommittees concerning health promotion, workplaces, and medical and nursing education and staffing, especially regarding occupational health and safety. She chaired the standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for 9 years and served the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counsellors. She is former Clinical Professor of Medicine at University California San Francisco (UCSF) and Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs at the Stanford University School of Medicine, founding Chair of the Department of Occupational Health at California Pacific Medical Center, and former Editor of the Western Journal of Medicine. She is also founding president of RENEW, a not-for-profit aimed at helping devoted people maintain (and regain) their enthusiasm, effectiveness, and purpose, and author of The Fatigue Prescription, Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health and Life. Dr. Hawes Clever received undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University and had several years of medical residency and fellowships at Stanford and UCSF in internal medicine, infectious diseases, community medicine, and occupational medicine. In the American College of Physicians, she served as Governor, Chair of the Board of Governors, and Regent. Her community activities include chairing the boards of KQED and University

High School in San Francisco. She has written numerous papers, chapters, articles, and editorials. Her areas of special interest include personal and organizational renewal; the interactions of life, work, and health; the occupational health of women and health care workers; and leadership. In 2010, Dr. Hawes Clever was given the American Medical Women’s Association’s Elizabeth Blackwell Medal for outstanding contributions to the cause of women in the field of medicine. She also received the Stanford Medal which honors volunteer leaders who have given extraordinary, distinguished, and significant service to Stanford University.

STEPHANIE HOLM, M.D., Ph.D., is an environmental pediatrician and epidemiologist. She is the director of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at University California, San Francisco, does research on air pollution effects on children’s health, and works half-time at the California Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. She got her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, did postgraduate medical training at both Children’s Hospital Oakland and University of California, San Francisco, and got her M.P.H. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. She’s been heavily involved in work on health effects of wildfire smoke in children and public health strategies for mitigation for the last few years and served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus committee on Respiratory Protection for the Public and Workers without Respiratory Protection Programs at Their Workplaces, whose report was released in February of 2022.

VICTORIA JAQUA is a coauthor of Design | Make | Protect, an Open Source Medical Supplies (OSMS) and Nation of Makers white paper documenting the open source and distributed PPE manufacturing movement of 2020. She is a curator for the OSMS Project Library and project manager and collaborator across multiple open-source medical initiatives. Ms. Jaqua coleads the Global Open Source Quality Assurance System, a project that supports increasing transparency, documentation, and provenance in the distributed manufacturing of open-source designs.

SUNDARESAN JAYARAMAN, Ph.D., is Kolon Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also the founding director of the Kolon Center for Lifestyle Innovation at Georgia Tech. A pioneer in bringing about convergence between textiles and computing, Dr. Jayaraman’s research has led to the paradigm of “Fabric Is the Computer.” He is a leader in studying and defining the roles of engineering design, manufacturing, and materials

technologies in public policy for the nation. Dr. Jayaraman is a recipient of the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research in the area of computer-aided manufacturing and enterprise architecture. In September 1994, he was elected a fellow of the Textile Institute (UK). His publications include a textbook on computer-aided problem solving published by McGraw-Hill in 1991 and 10 U.S. patents. As principal investigator, he has received more than $16 million in research funding from a variety of sources, including the NSF, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and industry. Jayaraman served as technical editor, information technology, for ATI Magazine (now Textile World) from 1995 to 2003. From May 2000 to October 2004, he was an editor of the Journal of the Textile Institute and is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board. Dr. Jayaraman is a founding member of the IOM Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment in the Workplace (2005–2013). From December 2008 to February 2011, he served on the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design of the National Academies. In February 2011, he became a founding member of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Academies. He has also served on seven study committees for the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) and the National Research Council of the National Academies.

AMRITA REBECCA JOHN, M.D., is a critical care and infectious disease physician at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). She is an expert in infectious diseases with a special interest in pathogen transmission in health care settings. She has several publications on PPE use and trains health care professionals in proper PPE use. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led a team of scientists from NASA Glenn Research Center and CWRU, physicians, and facility experts at University Hospitals to devise methods for rapid, large-scale disinfection and reuse of N95 filtering face respirators. Dr. John completed her medical school at Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. She served in mission hospitals in India for 2 years before moving to the United States in 2011. She completed her medical residency in internal medicine at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island and Brown University followed by advanced fellowships in infectious disease and critical care medicine from University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic, respectively. A research fellowship with infectious disease expert Curtis Donskey at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veteran Affairs Medical Center cemented her interest and continued work toward understanding the complexities and minimizing the risk of health care acquired pathogens.

SEAN KICE, M.S., is the deputy director of emergency preparedness for the Tennessee Department of Health. He is an emergency manager and toxicologist who joined the ranks of public health 9 years ago. Previously, he was the SNS coordinator, and before that he served as the radiation protection officer for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. He completed programs at the University of Southern Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Tennessee State University to earn a bachelor of science in biology, master of science in environmental science/toxicology, and a graduate certificate in hospital administration and planning.

JENNIFER KIGER, M.P.H., is director of the COVID-19 Division for Harris County Public Health. Kiger received her master’s degree in public health at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. She started her public health career as an epidemiologist investigator and preparedness specialist for the City of Houston Health Department. Then she worked at the Association of Schools of Public Health in Washington, DC, as a program manager for the Centers for Public Health Preparedness. In 2007, she returned to Texas to work for the Department of State Health Services. She spent more than 7 years working in the state and regional public health preparedness within Texas, serving various roles including liaison, Strategic National Stockpile coordinator, preparedness planner, and regional public health preparedness manager. Ms. Kiger has held command roles in several responses including for Hurricane Ike, H1N1, Texas West Nile, Texas wildfires in 2010, Harris County flooding events in 2015 and 2016, Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and the ITC Chemical Fire in 2019.

ANDREW LEVINSON, M.P.H., is the director for OSHA’s Directorate of Standards and Guidance. Mr. Levinson works on safety and health management systems, emergency response and preparedness, infectious disease, and protective clothing and equipment issues. Before joining the agency, he worked on emergency responder health and safety matters at the International Association of Fire Fighters and on safety and environmental compliance at Anheuser-Busch’s brewery in Cartersville, Georgia. Mr. Levinson received his master’s degree in public health from Emory University and is a graduate of the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor.

NICOLE MCCULLOUGH, Ph.D., is vice president of global application engineering and regulatory for the Personal Safety Division at 3M. Previously she was the technical service and regulatory affairs manager in OH&EST, where she provided support for the respiratory protection business. She earned her master of science degree and Ph.D. in occupational

and environmental health from the University of Minnesota. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in biology from Luther College.

ANNE MILLER, M.B.A., is a strategist with deep experience in health care. Over 20 years, she has facilitated the development of novel medical devices, surgical products, diagnostic tools, and innovations for an array of companies. She is currently principal and co-founder of CrossCut Partners LLC, a health care strategy and execution consulting firm that helps clients answer difficult business strategy, product marketing, competitive assessment, and product development questions. The firm works for diagnostic, surgical, medical device, life science, specialty pharmaceutical, health care services, and private equity/venture capital clients of all sizes in all stages of growth. Miller is also executive director of Project N95, a national nonprofit focused on creating equitable access to affordable, authentic products and services for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. She holds degrees from Harvard Business School and Duke University.

COLLEEN MILLER, is the deputy branch chief for the Conformity Verification and Standards Development Branch of the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory. She is a NIOSH Respirator Approval Program leader, managing a team of engineering reviewers and quality assurance specialists and concurring on every decision made by the program. Since 2014 she has represented NIOSH on voluntary consensus standard committees including International Organization for Standardization (ISO) TC 94 SC 15 and ASTM International F23 committees. She is currently preparing the regulatory update to NIOSH’s regulation to include the ASTM respirator fit capability test method standard. Miller is a past chair of the International Society for Respiratory Protection’s Americas Section. She has previous work experience as a polymer scientist at an independent consulting firm, Matco Associates Inc., and in the research and development division of Corning Inc. Miller earned her A.A.S. degree from Broome Community College in chemical engineering technology and B.S. in polymer science from Pennsylvania State University.

JILL MORGAN, R.N., earned her nursing degree from Georgia State University and has more than 30 years of bedside nursing experience in emergency and critical care, beginning in a rural critical access hospital and then moving to more urban emergency departments before joining Emory in 2003 in medical and respiratory ICUs. Morgan has been a member of Emory’s Serious Communicable Diseases Program for more than 15 years and cared for all four of Emory’s Ebola virus disease patients.

She now serves as the site manager for the Emory biocontainment unit and has worked to validate the unit’s processes for the inactivation of special pathogen waste. During her biocontainment unit experience, Morgan developed an acute interest in ensuring that clinicians of all kinds can safely do their work. That passion has led to a strong relationship with clinical research, Emory’s Healthcare Human Factors Lab, NIOSH, and the National Personal Protective Technologies Laboratory, as well as involvement with PPE standards organizations such as ASTM. She serves as the in-person education lead for NETEC, the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center, a CDC-funded organization charged with improving the readiness of the U.S. health care system for infectious pathogens. For NETEC, Morgan helps create and deliver frontline education, co-leads the PPE Working Group, and serves as a PPE and waste inactivation subject-matter expert.

ANDREW MOY is chief executive officer, board member, and founder of Aegle. He brings years of experience in channel distribution and overseas manufacturing and import and export of consumer products to the Aegle team. Moy is responsible for day-to-day operations, business development, government contracts, partnerships, and investor relations. Before joining Aegle, Moy held roles as a partner at Playbook Capital and Consensys Capital, serving in a capital markets role, and has a background in security and high technology. Moy previously founded a workforce development startup, where he sourced more than $21 million in public funding for workforce development in the states of California, Nevada, and Arizona and the federal government. He started his career at CDW, where he built a multimillion-dollar book of business reselling IT hardware and software. Moy graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in management information systems and finance.

BONNIE ROGERS, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., is an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, and a consultant with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Dr. Rogers received her diploma in nursing from the Washington Hospital Center School of Nursing, Washington, DC; her baccalaureate in nursing from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; and her master of public health degree and doctorate in public health, the latter with a major in environmental health sciences and occupational health, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. She holds a postgraduate certificate as an adult health clinical nurse specialist. She is certified in occupational health nursing and case management and

as a legal nurse consultant and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses. Dr. Rogers completed an academic certificate program in Bioethics and Health Policy at Loyola University, Chicago, is an ethicist, and was invited to study ethics as a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center in New York. She was granted a NIOSH career award to study ethical issues in occupational health. In addition to managerial, consultant, and educator and researcher positions, Dr. Rogers has also practiced for many years as a public health nurse, occupational health nurse, and occupational health nurse practitioner. She has published more than 225 articles and book chapters, and two books, including Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing: Concepts and Practice, and Occupational Health Nursing Guidelines for Primary Clinical Conditions, in its fifth edition.

ELIZABETH ROYAL, M.S., has worked for the Service Employees International Union for almost 19 years, most recently as the assistant director for health care workforce strategy and director of the National Nurse Alliance. Her work focuses on worker-centered policy solutions to the health care worker crisis. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the College of William and Mary and a master’s in sociology from Vanderbilt University.

JENNIFER SCHNEIDER, Sc.D., CIH, is the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She leads the Collaboratory for Resiliency & Recovery at RIT and is a professor in the Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. She has more than 30 years of experience as a certified industrial hygienist and process engineer. Dr. Schneider’s research interests include hazardous material control and critical infrastructure emergency planning. She also studies exposure assessment and models exposure scenarios, particularly for HAZMAT emergencies. Multidimensional sustainability and analysis of sector based corporate sustainability related activities and management systems are an area of interest. Further, as a certified industrial hygienist and regional school board member, Dr. Schneider was a key campus, K-12, and regional resource during the COVID-19 pandemic, guiding leadership policy, decision-making, and technical implementation, including ventilation and air technologies, personal protective equipment (PPE) selection, wastewater sampling and analysis. Since RIT hosts the National Technical Institute for the Deaf integrated within a larger university community, Dr. Schneider engaged early in equitable PPE for the pandemic, and currently has a key role in a large project to create inclusive PPE, including clear respiratory protection. Dr.

Schneider holds a B.A. in comprehensive science from Roberts Wesleyan University, an M.S. in industrial hygiene from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and an Sc.D. in work environment from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, College of Engineering.

CAROLYN SHERIDAN, R.N., is the founder and executive director of the Ag Health and Safety Alliance™ (AHSA), an international nonprofit organization registered in the United States and Canada. AHSA focuses on ag health and safety education for all generations of agriculture with a special focus on the next generation of agriculture. Sheridan has more than 28 years of experience serving the agricultural population. As the developer of the Gear Up for Ag Health and Safety™ program in 1993, she has delivered the program to more than 8,000 students over the past 20 years and led the international expansion of the program. Sheridan also serves as an instructor for the Agricultural Medicine-Occupational & Environmental Health Course for Rural Health Professionals in several states across the nation. Her area of focus is the appropriate use, care, and understanding of PPE. Ms. Sheridan translates outreach experience and findings into several academic publications focused on agricultural health and safety. Her response to emerging issues includes the development of respiratory protection videos and dissemination of resources outlining PPE recommendations for poultry producers. In 2020, she collaborated with more than four NIOSH-funded Agricultural Centers on a document providing guidance on respiratory protection use during the shortages experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Awards related to agricultural health and safety work include the I-CASH Hall of Fame and the 2022 ISASH Practitioner Award.

DAN SHIPP is a consultant in standards, conformity assessment, and regulation of personal protective equipment and technologies. From 1993 until his retirement in 2017, he was president of the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA), also known as the Association for Manufacturers and Distributors of Personal Protective Equipment and Clothing. As the chief staff officer of ISEA, Mr. Shipp represented U.S. safety equipment manufacturers before Congress and U.S. regulatory agencies, as well as global industry, standards, and government forums. He has served as a member of the Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health of the National Academies; the board of the Americas Section of the International Society for Respiratory Protection; the board of directors of the National Safety Council; and the PPE Conformity Assessment Working Group of NIOSH’s National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory. Shipp was a member of the planning committee for the National Academies August 2020 workshop on current

issues in assessment of respiratory protective devices, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Respiratory Protection for the Public and Workers without Respiratory Protection Programs at Their Workplaces. In August 2021, he joined Stone-Turn Consultants as a subject-matter expert, currently under contract to NIOSH NPPTL to advise the agency on alignment of PPE conformity assessment practices with the National Framework for PPE Conformity Assessment—Infrastructure.

MARK SHIRLEY, M.S., CSP, is the director of integrated resiliency management in the Office of the General Counsel at Sutter Health. He provides corporate-level leadership and guidance across a broad range of environmental health, safety, and emergency management operations in support of risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and organizational resiliency. Shirley received his master’s degree in environmental management from the University of San Francisco in 2000 and has been a board-certified safety professional since 2006. He serves as a member of the California Department of Public Health’s Joint Advisory Committee on Public Health Preparedness, the California Hospital Association’s Emergency Management Advisory Committee, and the Hospital Incident Command System National Advisory Executive Committee.

DAVID SIMCHI-LEVI, Ph.D., is a professor of engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management and business analytics. His research, Data Science Lab, focuses on developing and implementing robust and efficient techniques for operations management. He has published widely in professional journals on both practical and theoretical aspects of supply chain and revenue management. He was the founder of LogicTools, which provided software solutions and professional services for supply chain optimization. LogicTools became part of IBM in 2009. In 2012 he cofounded OPS Rules, an operations analytics consulting company. The company became part of Accenture in 2016. In 2014 he cofounded Opalytics, a cloud analytics platform company focusing on operations and supply chain intelligence. The company became part of the Accenture Applied Intelligence in 2018.

SKIP SKIVINGTON, M.B.A., is the vice president of Health Care Continuity and Support Services at Kaiser Permanente. Mr. Skivington concurrently served as the interim vice president of supply chain from 2005 to 2009, and from 2015 to 2017 led Kaiser’s security services program. Since 2000 he has been responsible for the implementation of a formal health care continuity management program throughout Kaiser Permanente.

In addition to directing this formal planning and response process, and immediately following the anthrax attacks in October 2001, Mr. Skivington formed and now directs Kaiser Permanente’s threat assessment program, consisting of an executive oversight council and functional working groups in the disciplines of clinical (physicians, nursing, pharmacy, mental health, and lab), facilities, community linkages, people, legal, communications, training, supply chain, and public policy. He serves as Kaiser Permanente’s national incident manager during wide-scale events such as the Ebola crisis from 2014 to 2015 and the California wildfires in 2017. Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Mr. Skivington led two Kaiser Permanente volunteer medical response teams consisting of physicians, nurses, and mental health providers to the Gulf region at the request of the U.S. surgeon general and was part of the largest medical volunteer response program in the history of the country. Mr. Skivington holds both a bachelor of science degree in business administration and an M.B.A.

NICHOLAS SMIT has spent the pandemic helping people understand the importance of using better masks, including in underserved communities, and he has helped get better masks donated to people in need internationally. He has helped politicians around the world understand the importance of using better masks, including getting the government of Ontario and Canada to recommend elastomeric respirators as N95 alternatives. Smit is now working with politicians, government agencies, corporations, and nonprofits in the United States to help solve key pandemic issues, including trying to get free masks for everyone and solving supply chain issues. Smit has been a major advocate for a layered approach to safety. In his spare time, Smit helps the World Health Network, MaskTogetherAmerica, Clean Air Crew, and many other groups around pandemic issues, and he is also the vice chair for the Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance as well as the past executive director for the American Medical Manufacturers Association (formally the American Mask Manufacturers Association).

SUSAN SOKOLOWSKI, Ph.D., has more than 30 years of performance sporting goods experience, working cross-functionally between footwear, apparel, and equipment in creative and strategic roles. Her work is holistic in nature, where consideration of the athlete’s body form, performance, materials and styling are addressed to develop game-changing innovative solutions. She is specifically focused on issues surrounding design of products for underserved populations. Dr. Sokolowski has been internationally recognized for achievements in design innovation from Nike, the United States Olympic Committee, Vogue magazine, Fast Company, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Design Museum London, and Volvo. She

holds more than 45 U.S. patents and 65 foreign patents. A motivational coach and mentor, Dr. Sokolowski is committed to inspiring students in product design, development, and business. Dr. Sokolowski is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.), Cornell University (M.A.), and the Fashion Institute of Technology (B.F.A.). At the University of Oregon, she is a professor of product design and the founding director of the Sports Product Design M.S. Program.

JEFFREY STULL, M.S., is the president of International Personnel Protection, Inc. He is a member of several National Fire Protection Association committees on PPE as well as the ASTM International Committee on protective clothing. Mr. Stull was formerly the convener for international work groups on heat/thermal protection and hazardous materials PPE as well as the lead U.S. delegate for International Standards Organization Technical Committee 94, Subcommittees on Protective Clothing and Firefighter PPE. He participates in the Interagency Board for Equipment Standardization and Interoperability and coauthored the book, PPE Made Easy.

JON SZALAJDA, M.S., is the deputy director for the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He earned his master’s degree in industrial engineering in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He also earned his master’s of engineering degree from George Washington University and his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Penn State University.

CHRISTOPHER TANG, Ph.D., is a University Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He has been elected as fellow of INFORMS, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, and Production and Operations Management Society. Known as a thought leader in global supply chain management, Dr. Tang consulted with numerous global companies including Amgen, Amazon, HP, IBM, and Nestlé (USA); taught at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, MIT (Zaragoza), and London Business School. Dr. Tang has published 7 books, 30 book chapters, and over 200 research articles in global supply chain management. He has also published over 100 articles in public media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg Law, Forbes, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post, and China Daily. He received his B.Sc. (first-class honors in mathematics) from King’s College, London, and M.A. (in statistics), M.Phil. (in administrative science), and Ph.D. (in management science) from Yale University.

JESSICA TREDINNICK, M.P.H., CIH, CSP, manages a global team of standards development, regulatory affairs, and policy professionals for 3M’s Personal Safety Division. Previously Ms. Tredinnick served as the respirator fit marketing manager, driving the developing digital fit solutions, managing respirator fit studies, and helping to increase quality and compliance in respirator fit testing around the world. Ms. Tredinnick also spent 8 years supporting 3M’s respiratory protection customers as an application engineer. Ms. Tredinnick has a background in occupational health and safety, having previously been a member of 3M’s corporate industrial hygiene team and a coordinator of hazardous materials and first responder trainings at the University of Minnesota. She serves on the executive committee of the board of directors of the International Society for Respiratory Protection.

TENER GOODWIN VEENEMA, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., is a senior scientist in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering and a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Veenema is an international expert in disaster nursing and public health preparedness, and her research focuses on informing evidence-based policy related to health care systems and public health response for catastrophic events such as pandemics and radiation or nuclear disasters. At the center, she conducts and leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and health care worker respiratory protection during large-scale biological events. She serves as an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security and is editor of Disaster Nursing and Public Health Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Other Hazards (4th ed.). An accomplished scholar and researcher, Dr. Veenema is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and an elected fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Dublin, Ireland. At the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Veenema is a member of the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness and the Disaster Research Action Collaborative, and she recently served as chair of the Standing Committee for the CDC Center for Preparedness and Response. Dr. Veenema has served on numerous NAM consensus studies, including the Standing Committee on the Use of Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care (2018–2019) and as planning committee member and speaker for the NAM Current Issues in the Assessment of Respiratory Protective Devices workshop (August 4–5, 2020).

CORY WORDEN, M.S., CSP, CSHM, CHSP, ARM, REM, CESCO, has worked in the development, implementation, and management of safety,

health, environmental, emergency management, and training programs for over 19 years and has a wealth of experience in chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive operations, public health, health care, military, manufacturing, and municipal government operations. He has developed and implemented safety systems affecting over 30,000 employees at a time and has been the Incident Command System safety officer on major citywide and health care system responses to COVID-19, Ebola, and more. Worden is currently the safety adviser for the City of Houston Risk Management Division and works citywide as the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive hazards and threats safety adviser and as safety adviser with the Houston Health Department. His 9 books were published between 2013 and 2020, and his 101 articles have been published by the American Society for Safety Professionals, National Safety Council, the Association for Occupational Health Professionals, EHS Today, OHS Magazine, the Institute for Safety and Health Management, and more. Worden has received 11 major recognitions and multiple military medals and awards, including the 2022 American Society of Safety Professionals Communities of Practice Safety Professional of the Year and a 2022 American Society of Safety Professionals Culbertson award for volunteer service.

JOE WORPLE is a senior design engineer for Milwaukee Tool, where he formerly served as a materials engineer. In his current role he assists with materials selection and material level testing for new safety product development. Worple previously worked as a research and development engineer for Miniature Precision Components, where he worked in the research and development department and specialized in new technology development. Worple earned his bachelor’s degree in materials science engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he graduated with honors.

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KELSEY R. BABIK, M.P.H, CIH, is an associate program officer in the Health Medicine Division at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In addition to this workshop, she works on projects initiated by the Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health. This is a standing committee at the National Academies sponsored by the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to provide a forum for discussion of scientific and technical issues relevant to the development, certification, deployment, and use of personal protective equipment, standards, and related systems to ensure workplace safety and health. Previously, at the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Insti-

tute of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she worked on occupational health risk assessments for first responders. She has a B.S. in molecular biology from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.P.H. from the University of Maryland, and is currently pursuing a doctorate of public health at the University of Illinois Chicago.

JOE ALPER, M.S., has been a science writer and technology analyst for more than 40 years. For the past decade, he has served as the editorial consultant for numerous National Academy consensus studies and workshops, including Implementing High-Quality Primary Care, The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality, Achieving Whole Health, and Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations. He played a central role in planning and establishing the National Cancer Institute’s Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer and Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers programs, as well as the National Institute of Mental Health’s Decade of the Brain initiative, and has written numerous policy documents for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST); National Cancer Institute; and the National Institutes of Health; as well as many other foundations and federal agencies. He has also served as a contributing correspondent for Science, Nature Biotechnology, and Self magazines, and has written for a variety of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Geographic, work for which he received numerous national writing awards. Sandwiched between his years as a magazine writer and science and health care policy writer, Mr. Alper was the senior director of corporate communication and strategic planning for a publicly traded biotechnology company in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in chemistry and received M.S. degrees in both biochemistry and agricultural journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also completed graduate coursework in architecture and conservation biology at the University of Minnesota and photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

ASHLEY BOLOGNA, M.S, is a senior program assistant in the Health Medicine Division at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In addition to this workshop, she works on projects initiated by the Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health. This is a standing committee at the National Academies sponsored by the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to provide a forum for discussion of scientific and technical issues relevant to the development, certification, deployment, and use of personal protective equipment, standards, and related systems to ensure workplace

safety and health She earned her master of science in global health at Georgetown University. She also has a B.A. in international relations and political science from Virginia Wesleyan University.

AUTUMN DOWNEY, Ph.D., is a senior program officer with the Board on Health Sciences Policy. She joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2012, and, in addition to the current study, she directs the Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health. She was formerly the director of the Standing Committee on Medical and Epidemiological Aspects of Air Pollution on U.S. Government Employees and Their Families. Other National Academies studies she has worked on include Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers; Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response; Return of Individual-Specific Research Results Generated in Research Laboratories; Preventing Cognitive Decline and Dementia; A National Trauma Care System; Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters; BioWatch PCR Assays; and Advancing Workforce Health at the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Downey received her Ph.D. in molecular microbiology and immunology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the school’s National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response. Prior to joining the National Academies, she was a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she worked on environmental sampling for biothreat agents and the indoor microbiome.

REBECCA ENGLISH, M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the Board on Health Science Policy. She has directed, codirected, and staffed a number of projects at the National Academies including, most recently, Assessment of Strategies for Managing Cancer Risks Associated with Radiation Exposure During Crewed Space Missions (2021); Necessity, Use, and Care of Laboratory Dogs at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (2020); Temporomandibular Disorders: From Research Discoveries to Clinical Treatment (2020); Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape (Proceedings of a Workshop; 2018); and Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques: Ethical, Social, and Policy Considerations (2016). She has also staffed the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation in various capacities since 2009 and has worked on wide-ranging projects related to the United States clinical trials enterprise as well as multidrugresistant tuberculosis throughout the world. Before joining the National Academies, she worked on health policy for Congressman Porter J. Goss

(FL-14) and for the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Ms. English holds an M.P.H. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, majoring in political science.

SARAH LUNSFORD, Ph.D., is an independent consultant, serving as this workshop’s facilitator. She works alongside partners to generate insights to improve the design and delivery of health care to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to produce actionable insights that make service delivery better for care teams and patients. Her skills and expertise include: surfacing patient/user/clinician perceptions, behaviors, and experiences using qualitative and quantitative methods; identifying pain points in health systems and generating culturally-aware solutions; synthesizing data into actionable strategies; managing complex projects and geographically dispersed teams; and facilitating inclusive and participatory workshops.

CLARE STROUD, Ph.D., is senior board director for the Board on Health Sciences Policy at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this capacity, she oversees a program of activities aimed at fostering the basic biomedical and clinical research enterprises; addressing the ethical, legal, and social contexts of scientific and technologic advances related to health; and strengthening the preparedness, resilience, and sustainability of communities. Previously, she served as director of the National Academies’ Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, which brings together leaders from government, academia, industry, and nonprofit organizations to discuss key challenges and emerging issues in neuroscience research, development of therapies for nervous system disorders, and related ethical and societal issues. She also led consensus studies and contributed to projects on topics such as pain management, medications for opioid use disorder, traumatic brain injury, preventing cognitive decline and dementia, supporting persons living with dementia and their caregivers, the health and well-being of young adults, and disaster preparedness and response. Dr. Stroud first joined the National Academies as a Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow. She has also been an associate at AmericaSpeaks, a nonprofit organization that engaged citizens in decision-making on important public policy issues. Dr. Stroud received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, with research focused on the cognitive neuroscience of language, and her bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University in Canada.

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