Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of the Speakers and Session Moderators

BETHANY BOGGESS ALCAUTER, Ph.D., is the research and public health programs director at the National Center for Farmworker Health, based in central Texas. She directs a national program focused on reducing the burden of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases among farmworkers as part of a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has focused on community-based participatory research with farmworkers, construction workers, and landscapers around health and labor structure topics. She has also led national mass media campaigns for immigrant farmworkers, developed workplace safety trainings, and implemented partnerships with industry associations and employers. She has received the Lorin Kerr Award by the Occupational Health and Safety Committee of the American Public Health Association and the Health and Safety Innovation Award by the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health. She is an advisory board member for the High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Safety and Health and the Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing and is a board member of the Texas Center for Local Food. She holds a B.S. in community health, an M.P.H. in epidemiology, and a Ph.D. in occupational epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center.

JOE ARMSTRONG, D.V.M., is a member of the Zoetis Dairy Technical Service Team and focuses on helping dairy and beef operations with the practical application of evidence-based medicine and management. With Zoetis, he is responsible for providing technical support to Minnesota,

western Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa. Dr. Armstrong received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Minnesota-Morris in 2011. He graduated from the University of Minnesota-College of Veterinary Medicine in 2015. After veterinary school, he worked as a private practitioner with beef and dairy farms at Anderson Veterinary Service in Zumbrota, Minnesota. He then worked as the Cattle Production Systems Extension Educator at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Armstrong lives in the Twin Cities of Minnesota with his wife, who is also a veterinarian, and his two children.

MARTIN J. CARRASQUILLO-MANGUAL, M.S., P.A.S., is a dairy educator with Michigan State University Extension, where he has spent the past 8 years supporting dairy farms across Michigan. His work blends research-based expertise with practical on-farm experience. Focusing on workforce education, he supports dairy workers to increase their skills and knowledge. He also develops educational materials for producers in herd management, feeding strategies, and overall farm efficiency. Originally from Puerto Rico, Carrasquillo-Mangual grew up on the family farm, sparking his passion for animal agriculture. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey and a master’s degree in animal science, with a concentration in dairy nutrition, from Michigan State University. Throughout his career, Carrasquillo-Mangual has presented at state and national conferences on dairy management and nutrition, workforce development, and sustainable practices. He is committed to providing accurate, accessible information to farmers and to highlighting the essential role of agriculture in food security and community well-being. Carrasquillo-Mangual believes the future of dairy farming lies at the intersection of science, education, and people—empowering both farm businesses and their workforce to thrive.

LUS CHÁVEZ, A.A.S., B.A.A.S., is a former respiratory therapist who transitioned into education, where she discovered her passion for working with migrant families. Her background in health care and education gives her a unique perspective on the challenges faced by migrant communities, inspiring her to focus on public health initiatives that bridge gaps in access and equity. Today, Chávez is dedicated to creating partnerships that uplift agricultural workers in the Texas Panhandle and promote healthier, more resilient communities.

HEREK L. CLACK, Ph.D., SB, is an associate professor of civil & environmental engineering at the University of Michigan (U-M). At U-M, his group focuses on chemical and biological aerosols and their interactions with electric fields and electrical discharges. He is the recipient of the XVI Distinguished Young Alumni/ae award (MIT, 2000), the NSF CAREER

Award (NSF, 2004), the Harry J. White Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Science and Application of Electrostatic Precipitation (Int’l Soc. for Electrostatic Precipitation, 2013), and the Kenneth M. Reese Outstanding Research Scientist Award (University of Michigan College of Engineering, 2019). He is vice-president and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Electrostatic Precipitation (ISESP); serves on the Awards and Representation & Equity Affairs committees of the American Association for Aerosol Research; and is co-founder and chief science officer of the startup company Taza Aya Inc. He earned an S.B. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT (1987) and an M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (1998) in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on numerous National Research Council committees addressing environmental issues ranging from the implications of changes to the regulations governing power plant emissions to the safe and ethical thermal destruction of both conventional munitions and chemical warfare agents by the U.S. military.

CAPT JAMES COBURN, M.S., is a portfolio lead for the Scalable Solutions Office within the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), where he focuses on medical manufacturing advancements and supply chain resilience. He is on detail from his position as senior advisor for emerging technologies in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of the Chief Scientist, where he leads a team that increases the agency’s experience with cross-cutting advanced manufacturing and emerging technologies in pursuit of accelerated technology adoption and a more robust medical supply chain. He also coordinates with industry and government groups on supply chain resilience for medical products. He was previously the medical manufacturing innovation lead for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He received his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Brown University and is a recognized expert in additive manufacturing for medical products. In his role in the public health service, CAPT Coburn deploys to disasters and outbreak zones where agile processes and digital systems can help to improve the response.

MEGHAN F. DAVIS, D.V.M., Ph.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor and doctoral program director in environmental health and engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH). She directs the Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center in Mental Health, which takes a holistic approach to the health and well-being of workers, particularly frontline workers in agriculture, health care, and service sectors. She received her D.V.M. from the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 2000, and she earned her M.P.H. and

Ph.D. from BSPH in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Prior to her faculty career, she has over a decade of experience in veterinary medicine, including dairy practice. She also served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Planning Committee for a workshop on Potential Research Priorities to Inform Readiness and Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1). Her research is grounded in One Health efforts that promote transdisciplinary, systems-thinking efforts toward improved human health, animal health, and environmental health.

MARYANN D’ALESSANDRO, Ph.D., has served as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) since March 2012. She also served as the associate director for science for NPPTL from 2003-2012. Dr. D’Alessandro provides leadership to the NIOSH Personal Protective Technology (PPT) Core and Specialty Program and the Public Safety Program where she serves as the manager leading the effort to align PPT initiatives with user needs across all workplace industry sectors. Within the PPT Program, Dr. D’Alessandro has served as the catalyst for aligning surveillance, research, standards, certification, outreach and intervention activities to improve workplace safety and health. She has played a key role in the COVID-19 response including leading personal protective equipment research, respirator conformity assessment, combatting counterfeit and substandard PPE, and addressing respiratory protection needs for the general public. Prior to joining NIOSH in 2003, she had a short academic career at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Bioengineering and served in various U.S. Army research and development organizations for 15 years in both an active duty (12 years) and reserve capacity (3 year). Dr. D’Alessandro holds electrical engineering degrees from the Florida Institute of Technology (B.S.), Fairleigh Dickinson University (M.S.), and Georgia Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). She also is the recipient of multiple awards including the 2021 James P. Keogh Award for Outstanding Service, the 2021 Federal Executive Board Gold Award for Outstanding Service to the Public, and she led the PPT Program to receive the 2021 CDC Director’s Award for Excellence in Public Health Impact (COVID-19 award category).

LUCY DUNNE, Ph.D., is currently a professor at the University of Minnesota, where she chaired the School of Apparel Design from 2011–2024 and codirects the Wearable Technology Lab. She holds degrees in apparel design (B.S. 2002, M.A. 2004, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA), electronic technology (A.A.S. 2004, Tompkins-Cortland Community College, Cortland, NY, USA), and computer science (Ph.D. 2007, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland). Her research focuses on textile- and garment-based wearable technologies, human factors of wearable systems, and

manufacturing and use of next-generation clothing. She is coauthor, with Susan Watkins, of Functional Apparel Design: From Sportswear to Space Suits (Bloomsbury, 2015), and she has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award and the NASA Silver Achievement Medal for her work with functional clothing and wearable technology.

LIZETTE DURAND, Ph.D., V.M.D, is the chief veterinary officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Influenza Division. She began her career at CDC in 2012 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer, jointly assigned to the CDC Influenza Division and the Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6. As an EIS officer, she worked on influenza seasonality and the timing of avian influenza A(H5N1) in poultry and humans. Dr. Durand later transitioned to the CDC Division of Global HIV and TB and served as the subject matter expert for HIV Case-Based Surveillance. In this position, she provided technical assistance to multiple countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Dr. Durand left CDC in 2018 to focus on global health security policy for the HHS/Office of Global Affairs (OGA). During her time with OGA, she was assigned to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, where she worked on aligning global health security activities and policy between HHS and DOD, in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr. Durand returned to CDC in 2022 as the Division of HIV Prevention assignee to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where she supported HIV outbreak response activities, before returning to the Influenza Division. During her career, Dr. Durand has participated in numerous outbreaks, including a vampire bat rabies outbreak in Peru, the 2012 multistate influenza A(H3N2) variant virus outbreak, MERS-CoV, Ebola, Zika, COVID-19, and mpox. Dr. Durand currently serves as the Chief Veterinary Officer and co-lead of the One Health Task Force in CDC’s H5N1 Response. Dr. Durand earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry and her Doctor of Philosophy in microbiology from the University of Chicago. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School with a concentration in international public health. Dr. Durand is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventative Medicine and is a Commander in the United States Public Health Service.

SARA FLOOR, M.A., is an award-winning communications strategist with more than two decades of experience in public health, life sciences, public affairs, agriculture, and local government. Her career highlights include leading culturally responsive outreach to the agriculture community during California’s bird flu epidemic, helping California counties navigate the COVID-19 public health crisis, creating the campaign to secure $6 billion for broadband infrastructure, and more. Floor recently received a master

level Certificate in Public Health from University of California (UC), Davis, and holds a master’s in public communication from Fordham University.

LISBETH GALL, M.A., is the associate director of population health programs at the National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH). She oversees public health training programs for special populations, language access programming, development and dissemination of health education materials, and referral and information services for farmworkers and their families. Gall is a native of Guatemala and has nearly 15 years of experience working internationally and in the United States on public health, education, and social programs with marginalized populations. She has extensive experience in project management, training program design and evaluation, and adult education. She currently serves as a board member of the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program (NCFHP), a statewide Migrant Health Voucher Program within the North Carolina Office of Rural Health. Gall holds a bachelor’s degree in social work with a focus on development management and a master’s in international training and education from American University.

OSCAR GARRISON is a food safety expert and a senior vice president of food safety and regulatory affairs at United Egg Producers (UEP). He oversees EggSafety.org, ensuring all content, videos, blogs, and FAQ answers are up-to-date and accurate. Garrison, along with UEP’s Food Safety Committee, works closely with regulatory officials from FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop guidance for farmers on producing safe, wholesome eggs. UEP’s food safety team also works with an advisory board of food safety experts for access to the most recent research, technology, and protocols for the food industry. A key member of the UEP team since 2013, Garrison has extensive food safety experience. He worked for over 19 years at the Georgia Department of Agriculture, serving as Division Director of Food Safety and Assistant Commissioner of Consumer Protection. He is the past president of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, where he led the national organization’s efforts to promote an Integrated Food Safety System. Garrison was also president of the Georgia Association of Food Protection and is currently on the Educational Advisory Board for the Food Safety Summit.

CAPT JOHN GIBBINS, D.V.M., M.P.H., serves as senior veterinary adviser to the Office of Agriculture Safety and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Earlier in his career, he was in mixed animal and emergency clinical medicine practice for 6 years; served 9 years as a public health officer, flight commander, and an infectious disease analyst in the Air

Force; and was chief veterinary officer for the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Gibbins is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (ACVPM) and an honorary diplomate of the American Veterinary One Health Society.

JENNA GIBBS, M.P.H., Ph.D., is a distinguished expert in agricultural health and safety, holding a Ph.D. in industrial hygiene from the University of Washington and a master’s in public health from the University of Iowa. For 6 years she has been the director of operations for the Ag Health and Safety Alliance (AHSA), where her work focuses on developing and leading national and international outreach programs in agricultural safety with high emphasis on personal protective equipment (PPE) training. For example, she organizes respirator fit test workshops specifically tailored for agricultural workers. Her expertise extends to developing novel educational materials, such as a 360-degree video series on PPE donning/doffing and graphic novel illustrations on PPE selection and care. Dr. Gibbs is a passionate outreach specialist and has expanded the Gear Up for Ag™ program to West Africa.

SHAWN GIBBS (Chair), Ph.D., MBA, CIH, is dean of the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. Dr. Gibbs has over a hundred articles in industrial hygiene and environmental exposure assessment, focused on disrupting transmission of high consequence infectious diseases. He is on the board for Global EHS Credentialing and the Texas Health Institute and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Board of Scientific Counselors. He was a member of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee Biosafety Working Group, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Board of Scientific Counselors for Homeland Security and the Southeastern Conference (SEC) COVID-19 Medical Task Force. He was a U.S. Faculty Fulbright Scholar to Egypt and has been principal investigator (PI) of three Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Programs (Egypt and Libya). He received the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s Edward J. Baier Technical Achievement Award, the Board for Global EHS Credentialing BGC Impact Award, Southeastern Conference’s Michael L Slive Distinguished Service Award, and the American Public Health Association Eula Bingham Award for Excellence in Occupational Health and Safety Education and Training. His research has explored exposures associated with bioaerosols in confined feeding operations. His research has helped to determine national policies, procedures, and best practices for response to Ebola virus disease, COVID-19, mpox, Lassa Fever, and other high consequence infectious diseases. With the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, he actively led and executed the aeromedical evacuation, ground transportation, and safety and risk reduction involved in the subsequent

treatment of confirmed and under investigation patients with Ebola virus disease. Dr. Gibbs has held roles in organizations, such as National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center, Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center, Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, Center for Population and Aging, and Director of Research for the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit. He is a national leader in public health education, research, training, and policy related to national and international responses to high consequence infectious diseases, including aeromedical evacuation isolation, waste management, decedent care, and occupational safety and health.

RICHARD GORDON, M.S.E.E., is the cofounder and CEO of Air99 LLC, where he drives innovation in respiratory protection. He holds an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and began his career as a high-end microprocessor designer at AT&T Bell Laboratories before becoming a serial entrepreneur in electronic design automation, cloud-based SaaS, and origami-inspired engineering. Gordon’s commitment to respiratory protection began in 2013 while living in China with his family. Faced with hazardous air pollution, he struggled to find an N95^® respirator that would fit and protect his 6-year-old son. Wearing masks daily himself, he experienced the flaws in conventional designs. Aware of the potential for a future pandemic and how N95^® respirators could be critical to blocking airborne transmission, he set out to engineer a better solution. That effort led to the Airgami® breathable, high-filtration, origami mask, for which he holds a patent. Air99 brought Airgami into production in time to serve tens of thousands of customers during COVID-19, providing protection that fit better, worked better, and looked better than traditional masks. Airgami earned top prizes in the 2019 Johnson & Johnson QuickFire Challenge, the 2021 and 2022 Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Mask Innovation Challenges, and the 2021 Good Design Award, and it was featured in National Geographic, Science magazine, and Scientific American. Today, Gordon focuses on manufacturing automation and the challenges of producing advanced PPE in the United States.

CAITLIN GREEN, D.V.M., is a field veterinarian with 5 years of experience working with heavy tom turkeys in Michigan. She worked in animal research for 6 years before becoming a poultry veterinarian, where she focuses on education and preventative medicine. Throughout her career, PPE has been a daily necessity and struggle. The value and shortcomings of these items are a constant part of her work and training. Dr. Green has been involved with many cases of H5N1 in Michigan as well as providing training to state responders.

MA ELENA GUTIERREZ is the founder and executive director of Fe y Justicia, a grassroots immigrant rights organization in central Minnesota. She empowers immigrant workers—particularly those in agriculture and meatpacking—to speak out, demand dignity, and shape policies that affect their lives. Originally from rural Mexico, Gutierrez immigrated to the United States after running a small shoe business and caring for her siblings as a teenager. Her own experiences of discrimination and exploitation in agriculture and hospitality inspired her to build a movement rooted in solidarity, storytelling, and collective power. Her organizing efforts have included sit-ins outside a sheriff’s office and mobilizing community testimonies in support of “Driver’s Licenses for All.” With the Bush Fellowship, Gutierrez is strengthening her leadership and organizational capacity while modeling sustainable movement work that unites immigrant communities and advances equity across Minnesota.

RACHEL HERLIHY, M.D., M.P.H., is the state epidemiologist and deputy chief medical officer at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Dr. Herlihy directs medical and epidemiologic activities for the department, including communicable disease reporting, surveillance, and investigation efforts. She led Colorado’s epidemiologic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Herlihy represents the department in a variety of settings, including legislative and executive hearings, as a lead media spokesperson, and with various technical and lay audiences. She has been with CDPHE since 2011 and has been Colorado’s state epidemiologist since 2017. Dr. Herlihy earned her M.D. and B.S. degrees in bacteriology and medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin. She completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Virginia and a preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University, including an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, Dr. Herlihy was the deputy state epidemiologist for Utah and the deputy director for the Department of Defense’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Program in Bethesda, Maryland.

CAPT STACY HOLZBAUER, D.V.M., M.P.H., DACVPM, is a CDC career epidemiology field officer assigned to the Minnesota Department of Health. She currently serves as the state public health veterinarian and leads the scientific and surveillance activities of the Zoonotic Diseases Unit; she is also a public health liaison to animal health regulatory agencies, animal industries, and others who work at the interface of human and animal health. She graduated from South Dakota State University and Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. After working as a large animal veterinarian in Iowa, Holzbauer received her M.P.H. from the University

of Iowa College of Public Health. She then completed the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program.

SUNDARESAN JAYARAMAN, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1985, he had the privilege of working at Software Arts, Inc. with Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the cocreators of the world’s first spreadsheet—VisiCalc®. Dr. Jayaraman and his research students have made significant contributions in the following areas: (1) smart textile-based wearable systems; (2) engineering design and analysis of intelligent textile structures and processes; (3) computer-aided manufacturing and enterprise architecture modeling; and (4) design and development of respiratory protective devices. Dr. Jayaraman received the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and was elected a Fellow of the Textile Institute (UK) in 1994. He received the 2018 and 2020 Textile Institute Research Publication Awards for the most outstanding paper published in 2018 and 2020 in the Journal of the Textile Institute, and he is a corecipient of the NAM Catalyst Award in the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge in 2023. Dr. Jayaraman received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1984. He is a founding member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment in the Workplace (COPPE) and the National Materials and Manufacturing Board. He currently serves as the chair of COPPE. He has served on nine National Academies study committees.

MICHELLE KROMM, D.V.M., M.P.H., MAM, is a board-certified poultry veterinarian with over 15 years of experience in food safety, emergency disease management, and antimicrobial stewardship. She earned her doctor of veterinary medicine and master of public health degrees concurrently from Iowa State University and the University of Iowa in 2006, followed by a master’s degree specializing in poultry medicine from the University of Georgia in 2007. After completing her education, Dr. Kromm joined Jennie-O Turkey Store, a Hormel Foods subsidiary, as a staff veterinarian. She advanced through multiple leadership roles, ultimately becoming vice president of animal health and welfare at Hormel Foods in 2019. In this role, she managed animal health, welfare, and preharvest food safety programs. Dr. Kromm has contributed to multiple task forces and committees focused on food safety, antimicrobial resistance, and emergency disease preparedness. Notable committees include the Executive Committee of National Turkey Federation, National Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance Research and

Education, and multiple American Veterinary Medical Association committees. Her consulting practice, Food Forward LLC, is dedicated to enhancing food system resilience through strategic risk mitigation, with a focus on food safety, animal health, and sustainability.

SEEMA LAKDAWALA, Ph.D., is a molecular virologist who began her training at the Salk Institute and continued at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where in 2009 she started studying the airborne transmission of emerging influenza viruses. Her early work led to key discoveries, including identifying the presence of influenza viruses in aerosols of various sizes and defining the soft palate as a critical site for viral adaptation and transmission. In 2015, Dr. Lakdawala launched her independent research program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and later moved her lab to Emory University in 2022. Her lab investigates influenza virus transmission, pathogenesis, and assembly across multiple scales. They use advanced microscopy and biochemistry to study viral replication, animal models to explore transmission barriers, controlled human infection models to examine release of infectious respiratory particles, and environmental engineering approaches to assess virus persistence in air. She founded and codirects the Emory Center for Transmission of Airborne Pathogens (C-TAP). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lakdawala Lab helped assess the impact of public health interventions at community levels and developed an interactive dashboard—PHIGHTCOVID.org—to guide national policy decisions. Recently, the lab has focused on the H5N1 outbreak, studying the presence of infectious viruses in air and wastewater on farms, how prior immunity to seasonal H1N1 affects disease severity, and the persistence of H5N1 in milk on shared surfaces. Dr. Lakdawala frequently speaks to the media on respiratory virus transmission and has coauthored several high-impact reviews, including in Science and Annual Review of Virology. She is the recipient of the 2020 ASV Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award, a co-organizer of the 2020 National Academies workshop on SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission, and a 2024 Kavli Fellow. Learn more at www.LakdawalaLab.com.

AMY K. LIEBMAN, M.P.A., M.A., has over three decades of experience and leadership advancing worker health and safety through community and clinical programs, research, and policy initiatives. She has been a leader at Migrant Clinicians Network since 1999 and is currently the chief program officer. She has established nationally recognized training and technical assistance programs with community-based organizations and health centers. She works with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-funded Agricultural Safety and Health Centers, fostering inclusion of farmworker initiatives. She is the associate director of the

Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH), where she successfully served as the co-PI for the Center’s dairy worker projects that delivered culturally and linguistically contextual health and safety interventions to dairy workers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. This work included the development of a curriculum and supporting resources as well as close collaboration with agricultural industry leaders, dairy producers, and workers. The National Safety Council applauded these efforts with its Stakeholder Collaboration in Occupational Injury Research Award. Liebman has been a leading voice calling for farmworker education and protection regarding H5N1, quoted in the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, and the Guardian. Previously, Liebman directed award-winning environmental health projects along the U.S.–Mexico Border; spearheaded policy efforts within the American Public Health Association to support the protection of farmworkers; and served on the federal advisory committee to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. Her programs have won several awards. In 2024 she was honored with the Shelley Davis Humanitarian Award for her commitment to improving farmworker health and safety. Liebman has a master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and she holds an M.A. from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

BETH LIPTON, D.V.M., M.P.H., is the state public health veterinarian with Washington State Department of Health. She has over 17 years of experience in local and state governmental public health and 7 years of experience in clinical veterinary practice as both a mixed and small animal veterinarian. Her current role primarily involves zoonotic and vector borne disease surveillance, prevention and outbreak response and addressing emerging diseases and issues from a One Health perspective. Dr. Lipton is part of a core team involved with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) preparedness and response among various animal species and settings in Washington state as well as participating in national groups to discuss approaches to HPAI. Dr. Lipton served as president of the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians during 2023−2024. She was previously a 6-year member of the Board of Directors for the Washington State Public Health Association. Dr. Lipton received her DVM degree from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and MPH from University of Washington School of Public Health.

JASON LOMBARD, D.V.M., M.S., grew up in Colorado and spent his early years on his family’s cattle ranch. After obtaining his D.V.M. from Colorado State University (CSU), he practiced primarily dairy cattle medicine in Wisconsin for almost 10 years. He returned to CSU and completed a master’s degree in epidemiology while working for USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS). He coordinated multiple national

studies, primarily focused on the dairy industry. While with the USDA, he also participated in an Incident Management Team and was deployed for multiple cattle and poultry diseases during his 20-year federal career. Dr. Lombard moved to CSU in 2023. Since April of 2024, he has spent most of his time working to better understand highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy cattle.

GINO LORENZONI, D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D., earned his D.V.M. in Chile before pursuing advanced training in poultry health and production. He completed a master’s degree at McGill University, focusing on ascites and oxidative stress; a Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas, where he studied ascites and the immune system of the avian respiratory tract; and postdoctoral training, also at Arkansas, investigating intestinal diseases and strategies to restore gut health. Following his academic training, Dr. Lorenzoni worked extensively with the global poultry industry as a technical advisor, supporting broiler and layer producers across Europe and the Americas. In 2017, he joined Penn State, where he teaches avian diseases to undergraduate and graduate students. His research program addresses major poultry health challenges, particularly necrotic enteritis and coccidiosis, while his extension efforts focus on training veterinarians and poultry professionals throughout Pennsylvania in the prevention, diagnosis, and control of avian diseases.

EDITH (“EDIE”) MARSHALL, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., DACVPM, is branch chief for the Antimicrobial Use and Stewardship program in the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). She became passionate about the human-animal interface and One Health while volunteering on a rabies vaccination project in Ecuador after high school. After attaining her D.V.M. at Washington State University and practicing in mixed and small animal clinics, she went on to UC Davis to get her M.P.V.M. and then work for the university’s Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance on foot-and-mouth disease models. After a few years, she started working with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), focusing on prevention and control of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Southeast Asia and China, while later working for FAO on projects in emergency preparedness, rinderpest, and pandemic H1N1 influenza. She followed with 2 years in the former Soviet Union on an anti-bioterror project. After returning to the United States, she supported the work of Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Health. Dr. Marshall started with the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) Antimicrobial Use and Stewardship (AUS) program in early 2018. She has experience in the epidemiology and surveillance of influenza in domestic food animals, including H5N1, as well as programmatic expertise in managing animal

disease research for the state of California. In August 2024, she was asked to lead the coordination of research into H5N1 infections of dairy cattle in California for CDFA.

ANNA MEYERHOFF is the senior bilingual agricultural safety and education coordinator at the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH) and the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing (NEC). Meyerhoff grew up on a dairy farm, lived and studied abroad in Central America, and earned a B.A. in Spanish from SUNY Geneseo. She has spent the last two decades of her career teaching Spanish-speaking farmworkers. In her role at NYCAMH/NEC, she delivers trainings on pesticides, tractors, and other farm safety topics. She also teaches first aid, CPR, and stress management. Meyerhoff creates easy-to-read bilingual print materials, conducts respirator fit testing, and helps farms choose appropriate personal protective equipment.

MATTHEW NONNENMANN, Ph.D., CIH, is a professor of environmental, agricultural and occupational health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His long-term goal is to protect public health through research that (1) advances the science to characterize human exposure to bioaerosols (e.g., measles virus) and (2) advances the science of exposure control to bioaerosols through engineering, administrative, or personal protection solutions. Dr. Nonnenmann has technical training and experience in industrial hygiene, microbiology techniques, exposure assessment, and the use of ventilation systems to aerosolize and measure virus aerosols. He has over 25 years of exposure assessment experience primarily in agricultural work settings, but more recently in health care. His research involves the characterization of bioaerosol hazards in health care and agricultural settings and constructing systems to aerosolize virus to simulate human cough. Dr. Nonnenmann has fulfilled the roles of PI, project leader, or co-investigator on several university, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (i.e., National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease and National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)-funded grants. Specifically, he has completed funded projects developing a coughing machine to aerosolize live virus (CK000557/CK18-001). In addition, he has ongoing projects evaluating UVC light to inactivate virus aerosols (CDC-1 U54 CK000448-01) and is the PI on a CDC/NIOSH-funded project to design/develop/install/evaluate a bioaerosol control ventilation system in animal production (e.g., U254OH007548). He is a PI on an Outreach project to disseminate PPE to dairy and poultry farms in response to H5N1 (CDC/NIOSH - 1U54OH010162 – Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health [Rautiainen, Center PI] - Distribution of worker educational

materials and personal protective equipment in response to highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy and poultry production).

JENNIFER NUZZO, Dr.P.H., is professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. An epidemiologist by training, her work focuses on global health security, public health preparedness and response, and health systems resilience. Together with colleagues from the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Economist Impact, she co-leads the development of the first-ever Global Health Security Index, which benchmarks 195 countries’ public health and health care capacities and capabilities, their commitment to international norms and global health security financing, and socioeconomic, political, and environmental risk environments. She also founded the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts, in partnership with frontline public health practitioners, operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response. Prior to coming to Brown, Dr. Nuzzo was an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She was also a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

JIN PAN, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the department of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa, College of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding the influence of environmental factors on disease transmission and human health. Specifically, her research utilizes multidisciplinary expertise to (1) investigate the interactions of current and emerging respiratory bacterial or viral pathogens and various environmental factors, with a focus on the indoor environment, to evaluate their risks of transmission; (2) develop and establish cost-effective sampling and surveillance system of respiratory diseases in indoor environment; and (3) design, evaluate, and implement non-pharmaceutical approaches to mitigate respiratory disease transmission in indoor environment. Dr. Pan earned a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, an M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.E. in building science at Tsinghua University.

MICHAEL PAYNE, Ph.D., D.V.M., holds a doctorate in both veterinary medicine and pathology, Dr. Payne is employed as a food animal researcher and outreach coordinator at the University of California’s School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Payne has also previously served in positions in private practice and university cooperative extension. Dr. Payne’s current research focuses on livestock and poultry mortality management during catastrophic natural disasters and disease events. He also directs the largest statewide continuing education program for dairy producers, the California Dairy Quality

Assurance Program. The program provides free continuing education to the entirety of California’s dairy producers, on issues including livestock and employee health, environmental sustainability, farm security, and producer wellness. The program has received numerous state, federal, and industry awards. Relative to this activity’s tasks, Dr. Payne has been the Vet School’s point person for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outreach including worker safety. He coordinates weekly with both the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Department of Public Health on HPAI issues. His explanations have been featured on numerous print and broadcast media pieces including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, BBC, NPR, ABC, NBC and CBS.

ASHLEY PETERSON, Ph.D., is senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs. Dr. Peterson’s responsibilities at the National Chicken Council include providing scientific and technical expertise on a variety of topics, including food safety, poultry inspection, and broiler health and welfare. For the last 14 years, she has been overseeing policy development and scientific initiatives within the regulatory agencies in Washington, D.C. Dr. Peterson came to Washington, D.C., as a Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, her master’s from Michigan State University, and her bachelor’s from the University of Kentucky.

ANJA RAUDABAUGH, B.S. Biochemistry, has led Western United Dairies (WUD) for a decade. She was selected by a board of directors who represent dairy farmers across California. Raudabaugh is eager to advocate for dairy farming of all production styles, as WUD represents over 750 dairies in the largest dairy farming region in the world. As California’s leading commodity, dairy farming serves the state’s local nutrition programs and grows economic prosperity in the community. WUD works with regulators, politicians, and local officials to ensure that dairy farming meets California’s high food production standards. Ensuring dairy farming thrives through community efforts to provide clean drinking water, meets air and water quality standards, and supports beautiful landscapes helps create and keep dairy investments in the state. WUD works with Californians every day to ensure dairy farmers protect the state’s ecosystem while addressing the challenges of small business. Recently, Raudabaugh codeveloped with the Department of Water Resources, the single largest water savings program in the history of western water, Landflex. Landflex worked directly with farmers to voluntarily surrender their use of overdrafted groundwater forever, providing strategic community economic stability in the face of drought or floods. WUD’s strategic direction on water continues to be community-focused, low drama, highly measurable water quantity benefits, and ease of scale.

Prior to joining WUD, Raudabaugh worked for the Farm Bureau and managed the local Madera County Farm Bureau. In this capacity, Anja oversaw multiple water quality coalitions and litigation against government overreaching onto private property. In her earlier years, she worked for the U.S. House Agricultural Committee, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and for U.S. Congressman Doug Ose. She helped author two farm bills and the largest specialty crop bill still in history (Specialty Crop Competitiveness Act). A biochemistry professional with a degree from the University of Pacific, Raudabaugh pursues strategic analytic approaches using data and fresh political perspectives and got her start reviewing prion protein diseases in cattle.

HEATHER RIDEN, M.A., is a distinguished professional in public health leadership. For the past 20 years, Riden has held key leadership positions where she has been instrumental in advancing programs that advocate for the health of underserved communities. Her expertise lies in program development, implementation, and evaluation, ensuring that health interventions are not only effective but also culturally and contextually appropriate. This extensive background provides a solid foundation for her current role as the program director for the UC Davis Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS), where she addresses the unique occupational health challenges faced by farmworkers. At WCAHS, Riden oversees a wide range of programs, including research, outreach, and education, all designed to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. She collaborates with diverse groups—from researchers and policy makers to farmworkers and growers—to create practical solutions that improve working conditions and promote a culture of safety. Her work includes developing and disseminating crucial information on emerging public health threats, such as H5N1 (avian influenza), to protect farmworkers and rural communities.

ANABEL RODRIGUEZ, Ph.D., M.P.H., is involved in research, outreach, and training efforts that have focused on improving occupational health, safety, and well-being among Spanish and Indigenous-speaking agricultural working populations in rural regions. Most recently, her work has focused on identification and prevention of tuberculosis and influenza, health service access in health ‘deserts,’ including, vaccine access, utilization, hesitancy, and systemic barriers, education on vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, pandemic relief payments for wages lost, and understanding social determinants of health associated with agricultural occupations (i.e., dairy farm workers, fresh fruit and vegetable, seasonal, migrant, and H-2A visa guest farmworkers, and sorting and grading bodega workers) in the Texas Panhandle and U.S.-Mexico border communities of the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso. Dr. Rodriguez is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and seasonal migrant farmworkers from the Rio Grande Valley.

CAROLYN SHERIDAN, R.N., B.S.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 health and safety for the next generation of agriculture workers with programming tailored specifically to this audience. Sheridan grew up on a dairy farm in northwest Iowa and continues to farm with her husband and children in the same area. She has more than 30 years of experience serving the agricultural population and performing outreach on multiple agricultural health and safety topics. As the developer of the agricultural health and safety college program (Gear Up for Ag Health and Safety™) in 1993, she has delivered the program to over 10,000 students and led the international expansion of the program. With more than two decades of agricultural education experience, Sheridan provides customized training in agricultural health and has served as an instructor for the Agricultural Medicine-Occupational and Environmental Health Course for Rural Health Professionals training course (i.e., the Agriculture Safety and Health: Core Course) in several states across the nation. Her speaking engagements to local, state, regional, national, and international audiences have addressed informing others about the need and availability of specific agricultural health services, the development of similar programs in other states and countries, and the need for sustainability of the agricultural-specific health and safety programs. Carolyn serves on numerous advisory committees for NIOSH-funded agricultural health and safety centers and is dedicated to advancing the rural health and safety professional workforce by educating health care and safety professionals in agriculture.

ELON ULLMAN, M.S., CIH, is a certified industrial hygienist and research scientist at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Before joining CDPH, he studied occupational noise exposure in the mining industry at the University of Michigan. His first role at CDPH was working on the COVID-19 response, focusing on indoor air quality and respiratory protection to prevent the spread of bioaerosols. His current role involves providing education to industries with newly recognized or previously under-addressed workplace health and safety risks. This includes H5N1 outbreaks on farms, silicosis in engineered stone fabrication shops, hazards in the cannabis industry, and valley fever among outdoor workers. Ullman also focuses on bridging occupational and community health by adapting industrial control measures to health hazards that affect the general public. Of particular interest are the barriers that community members face when wearing respiratory protection for hazards such as airborne disease, wildfire smoke, and DIY projects.

XIMENA VERGARA, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the chief of the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service section at the California Department of Public Health Occupational Health Branch where she uses her training in epidemiology, industrial hygiene and chemistry to tackle new and unrecognized occupational hazards. Dr. Vergara has a keen interest in applying exposure assessment and epidemiologic methods to public health problems, most recently focusing on infectious diseases in the workplace including COVID-19. She is an adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Vergara received her Master of Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Chicago.

BRENT WILSON, Wilson Centennial Farm, is a member of the Michigan Milk Producers Association.