Appendix A
Committee Biosketches

Daniel S. Greenbaum (Chair) is president emeritus of Health Effects Institute (HEI). He led HEI’s efforts to provide public and private decision-makers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa with high-quality, impartial, relevant, and credible science about the health effects of air pollution in order to inform decisions about air quality in the developed and developing world. In this role he worked with HEI’s sponsors in government and industry, its scientific committees and staff, and other environmental stakeholders to develop and implement the HEI Strategic Plan for Understanding the Health Effects of Air Pollution, which sets HEI’s course every 5 years. Mr. Greenbaum has been a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, chair of the Committee on Anticipatory Research for EPA’s Research and Development Enterprise to Inform Future Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead, and vice chair of the Committee for Air Quality Management in the United States. In addition, he served on the National Academies Committee on The Hidden Costs of Energy, Committee on Grand Challenges for Environmental Engineering, and Committee on Science for EPA’s Future. Mr. Greenbaum also chaired EPA’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline and Clean Diesel Independent Review Panel, which reviewed technology progress in implementing the 2007 Highway Diesel Rule. Mr. Greenbaum has more than three decades of governmental and nongovernmental experience in environmental health. Before joining HEI, he served as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection from 1988 to 1994, where he was responsible for the Commonwealth’s response to the Clean Air Act, as well as its award-winning efforts on pollution prevention, water pollution, and solid and hazardous waste. Mr. Greenbaum holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tara S. Behrend is John Richard Butler II endowed professor at Michigan State University. She is a former program director for the National Science Foundation in the Science of Organizations program. Dr. Behrend is an expert on workplace technology use, especially individual reactions to workplace technologies and the use of technologies for selection, training, and performance management. She is a current board member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Human-Systems Integration. She obtained a Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in industrial-organizational psychology.

Linda S. Birnbaum, scientist emeritus and the former director and former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), has expertise in hiring management and program performance. She spent 19 years at the

Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development before being recruited to lead NIEHS. Additionally, Dr. Birnbaum is a world-renowned scientist specializing in toxicology and public health. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has served as chair of the Committee on the Role of Companion Animals as Sentinels for Predicting Environmental Exposure Effects on Aging and Cancer Susceptibility in Humans: A Workshop. She also served as a member of the Standing Committee to Advise the Department of State on Unexplained Health Effects on U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine; and the Planning Committee for the Role of Chemical Exposures in Obesity: A Workshop, among others. Dr. Birnbaum is currently scholar in residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment of Duke University, as well as an adjunct professor at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and Yale University.

Thomas A. Burke is professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and director emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute. Before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, he was deputy commissioner of health for the State of New Jersey and director of science and research for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Dr. Burke was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as assistant administrator of EPA’s Office of Research and Development. From January 2015 until January 2017, he was EPA science advisor and deputy assistant administrator for research and development. His research interests include environmental epidemiology and surveillance, population exposures to environmental pollutants, risk assessment and communication, and application of epidemiology and health risk assessment to public policy. Dr. Burke served as chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA, which produced the report Science and Decisions; he also served as chair of the National Academies Environmental Health Matters Initiative. Dr. Burke received his B.S. from St. Peter’s University, his M.P.H. from the University of Texas, and his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.

G. Allen Burton Jr. is professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Roskilde (Denmark); a concurrent professor at Nanjing University; and honorary professor at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment in Beijing, China. His research has taken him to all seven continents with visiting scientist positions in China, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, and Portugal, dealing with sediment and stormwater toxicant bioavailability, improving causality linkages of risk at multiple trophic levels, and ranking stressor importance. Dr. Burton has also served as director of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Global Change Biology, Water Center, and NOAA Cooperative Institute of Limnology

and Ecosystems Research. He was distinguished faculty fellow of the Graham Sustainability Institute and the Brage Golding distinguished professor of research. Dr. Burton is editor-in-chief of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry and a fellow and past president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, serving on numerous national and international panels. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Burton serves on EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee and has served on two committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Edan T. Dionne is vice president, Environmental, Energy and Chemical Management Programs with IBM’s Corporate Environmental Affairs staff. She leads a team that is responsible for defining IBM’s strategy in these areas, establishing and maintaining IBM’s global environmental management system, and setting internal requirements and goals. The corporate staff is responsible for driving performance consistent with environmental leadership across the company. Ms. Dionne has 40 years of experience as an environmental professional with deep knowledge across environmental, energy, and chemical management topics that intersect IBM’s business. She regularly participates in activities involving external organizations, including industry groups, environmental nongovernmental organizations, and governments, contributing to advancing the goals of environmental sustainability. Ms. Dionne serves on the boards of the Wildlife Habitat Council and The Climate Registry. She holds an M.S. in chemical engineering.

Anne Fairbrother has more than 30 years of experience in ecotoxicology, wildlife toxicology, contaminated site assessment, and regulatory science. She served as president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, and the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA). Dr. Fairbrother was senior scientist at EPA and principal at several consulting firms. She is the recipient of the SETAC Founders Award (2014), the WDA Distinguished Service Award (2002), and a gold medal for Commendable Service from EPA. Dr. Fairbrother is a former member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and has served on multiple National Academies committees.

Tissa H. Illangasekare is AMAX endowed distinguished chair of environmental sciences and engineering, and director for the Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes at the Colorado School of Mines. He is also a research affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Illangasekare’s primary areas of research are environmental science, environmental modeling, hydrology, and spatial modeling. His research utilizes experimental, numerical, and theoretical modeling of complex environmental systems to determine their interaction with larger-scale environmental systems. This can include numerical modeling of saturated and unsaturated flow and transport in soils, surface–subsurface interaction, arid-zone hydrology, integrated

hydrologic modeling, flow in subfreezing snow, transport of dissolved and multiphase wastes, wireless sensor networking for environmental monitoring and intelligent remediation, and environmental impacts of energy development. Dr. Illangasekare has served on several National Research Council committees and was a board member for the Nuclear and Radiation Study Board until 2020. He is a fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Association for Advancement of Science, Soil Science Society of America, and American Society of Civil Engineers, and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka. Dr. Illangasekare is also a foreign member of the Academy of Europe and a member of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. He is a registered professional engineer, registered professional hydrologist, board certified environmental engineer with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. Dr. Illangasekare is currently serving as editor of AGU Advances and AGU’s Perspectives of Earth and Planetary Scientists, and specialty chief editor of water and human health of Frontiers in Water. He was past editor of Water Resources Research and coeditor of Vadose Zone Journal. Dr. Illangasekare received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Colorado State University, an M.E. from the Asian Institute of Technology, and a B.S. from the University of Ceylon in Sri Lanka. He also received an honorary doctorate in science and technology from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Willie E. May serves as vice president for research and economic development at Morgan State University. He served previously as director of major research and training initiatives for the College of Computer, Mathematical and the Natural Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. May also served as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and as NIST’s under secretary of commerce for standards and technology. His personal research activities were focused in the areas of trace organic analytical chemistry and physicochemical properties of organic compounds. His work is described in more than 90 peer-reviewed technical publications, and he has given more than 250 invited lectures at conferences and symposia around the world. Dr. May currently serves on the board of directors for Consumer Reports, the Advisory Council’s Science Committee for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His numerous honors and awards include honorary doctorates from Wake Forrest University and The University of Alabama Huntsville; the American Chemical Society’s Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry Award; the American Chemical Society’s Public Service Award; the Department of Commerce’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Awards; and the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers’ Percy Julian Award. In 2015, Dr. May was recognized as the federal government’s “top chemist” by Chemical and Engineering News Magazine, and in 2016, he was recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium as “laboratory

director of the year.” He earned his B.S. in chemistry from Knoxville College and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Paula Olsiewski is a contributing scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, where she leads the center’s work on indoor air quality policy to mitigate airborne disease and global catastrophic biological risks. During her two decades at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, she led innovative and multidisciplinary programs that inspired, accelerated, and produced lasting impact. Her expertise in partnering with academic, governmental, and for-profit stakeholders fostered innovation and built research capacity through the creation of diverse stakeholder networks. Her accomplishments include the creation and direction of the microbiology of the built environment, chemistry of indoor environments, and biosecurity programs. Dr. Olsiewski is recognized as a leading expert in biosecurity and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was chair of the EPA Homeland Security Research Subcommittee and was a member of the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee from 2014 to 2022. She is a member of the Academy of Fellows of the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in chemistry. Dr. Olsiewski received a B.S. in chemistry, cum laude, from Yale University and a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

C. Matthew Snipp is Burnet C. and Milfred Finley Wohlford professor of sociology at Stanford University. Also at Stanford, he is director of the Secure Data Center, deputy director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and chair of the Native American Studies program. Dr. Snipp has written extensively on American Indians, focusing specifically on the interaction of American Indians and the U.S. Census. Additionally, he is vice provost for faculty development, diversity, and engagement for Stanford. Dr. Snipp currently serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on National Statistics’ Standing Committee on Reengineering Census Operations and Standing Committee for the American Opportunity Study-Phase 1. Previously, he served as a member of the National Academies Panel to Review the 2010 Census, Panel on Residence Rules in the Decennial Census, and Panel on the Research on Future Census Methods, and as cochair of the Steering Committee for a Workshop on Developing a New National Survey on Social Mobility. Dr. Snipp has also served on the Census Bureau’s Technical Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Statistics and Native American Population Advisory Committee. He is former director of the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity.

Natalie S. Armstrong (Responsible Staff Officer) is a program officer with the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology within the Division on Earth and Life Studies at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She focuses on the intersection of environmental health, global health, and data

science, particularly by leveraging technologies and tools such as geospatial techniques and computer modeling. Ms. Armstrong has conducted research and led community engagement initiatives with nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and international agencies, including service for the U.S. State Department’s inaugural Fulbright Scholarship program in Greenland. She is a member of the Delta Omega Honor Society Alpha Chapter, Society of Women Engineers, and International Society for Exposure Science. Ms. Armstrong holds a Master of Health Science in environmental health and engineering, and certificates in risk sciences and public policy and in food systems, the environment, and public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.