Biography
Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H, member of APHA’s Science Board and active since 1987, has a 28 year career in public health and currently is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests include environmentally-induced disease such as asthma and cancer; health disparities, environmental health policy; community-based participatory research; disaster preparedness, and public health systems. She holds an endowed chair in environmental policy and is Associate Director, Population Sciences, Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium. In 2008, Dr. Lichtveld received the Herbert Nickens Award from the National Intercultural Cancer Council for leadership in cancer health disparities and educating minority health professionals in cancer care. In 2007, she was awarded Woman of the Year by the City of New Orleans for her contributions to science and well being. As Tulane University’s leading scientist in environmental health, she played a key role in addressing issues of science, policy and practice post-Katrina locally, regionally, and nationally. For example, as the Principal Investigator for Head Off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana, an NIH-funded study, she provides scientific oversight for all clinical, environmental, and community engagement aspects of this novel pediatric asthma intervention examining the relationship between exposure to Post-Katrina mold and exacerbation of Childhood asthma. In 2005, Dr. Lichtveld moderated APHA’s Annual Meeting historic opening session dedicated to disparities Post-Katrina. She is an active member of the Council on Education for Public Health’s accreditation team, corporately sponsored by APHA.
Dr. Lichtveld completed a successful 18 year career at CDC in several leadership capacities. As Associate Director for Workforce Policy and Planning, she collaborated with APHA’s leadership to address shortages, credentialing and certification. She led ATSDR’s Minority Health and Environmental Justice program, conducting numerous community-based studies in minority and disadvantaged populations nationwide. Honors include Environmental Health Scientist of the Year.
Among her scholarly contributions is AJPH’s (5/09) publication on Influenza preparedness in immigrants and refugees. As AJPH’s peer reviewer, she also serves on several journal editorial boards. Dr. Lichtveld is an expert consultant to IOM on contemporary environmental health, public health systems, and disaster preparedness issues. She provided technical expertise to develop the first ever cultural competencies jointly informing curricula at schools of medicine and public health nationwide.
Candidate Statement
EVERY DAY A HEALTH DISPARITIES DAY
When 99% of all new cancer cases are projected to occur in minorities and 66% in the elderly, health disparities are no longer “their” problem but a national public health priority. No need for more investments that- while well-intended- have failed to deliver significant progress in 20 years. Reflecting on the four overarching questions from the Guide to Community Preventive Services, the public health community spent sufficient resources and time to proof “something has to be done”. Disease-specific efforts have largely emphasized “what should be done” and “how should it be done”. Does the resounding negative answer to “is it working” compels us to fix what is broken? I propose a much bolder approach: Let’s NOT fix it!
APHA is in a unique position to build not RE-build a public health system-driven, trans-disciplinary roadmap to systematically up-root health disparities. How? As President-Elect I commit to collaboratively leveraging the science, policy, practice, and advocacy power of our organization to deliver on three issues:
· National Health Disparities Policy– APHA must be the table, not only a mere seat to bring about effective health disparities policies informed upstream by those who suffer the most;
· Culturally Competent Public Health Workforce- dedicated investments in APHA’s Student Caucus can deliver emerging public health leaders equipped to practice in our increasingly diverse communities struggling to overcome historic health disparities-- from New Orleans to New York City;
· Research with the People for the People- APHA’s trans-disciplinary strength embodied by all the sections-- from epidemiology to environmental health-- is a formidable force capable of making community-based participatory research the go-to strategy for finding sustainable health disparities solutions.
None of this can be achieved without taking an “e pluribus Unum” approach—one driven by Advocacy, Partnership, Holism, and Assets.
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Master of Public Health - Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, May 1986
Doctor of Medicine, University of Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana), Faculty of Medicine, Paramaribo, Suriname; University of Leyden, the Netherlands, August 1981
Undergraduate Degree: Dr. J. C. De Miranda College, Suriname, August 1973
Citizenship: United States of America
Work Experience:
August 2005- Present:
Professor and Chair, Freeport McMoRan Chair of Environmental Policy,
Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
As Prof and Chair I am responsible for all aspects of the academic mission in research, teaching and service in environmental health sciences:
Under my leadership, the Department focuses on the following research priority areas:
· Health effects research
o Pulmonary, endocrine, molecular toxicology and biomarkers
· Cancer research
o Carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, cancer health disparities, environmental epidemiology of cancer
· Environmental policy research
o Health and public policy, risk assessment
· Global environmental health research
o Water and air quality, sustainable hazardous waste management
· Population-based environmental health research
o Prevention and intervention research in high risk populations
· Public health systems research
o Disaster preparedness and management
Teaching:
The Department of Environmental Health Sciences offers both on-site and via distance learning masters, doctoral and joined graduate degrees (MPH, MSPH, PhD, MD/MPH, JD/MPH,) in the following areas of specialization: Toxicology; Industrial hygiene; Environmental policy; Global environmental health; Disaster management; Environmental oncology. In addition, the department is responsible for the environmental health track in the undergraduate BSPH program.
August 2005- present
Associate Director for Population Sciences, Tulane University Cancer Center (TCC); Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium (LCRC)
In this role I fulfill the following responsibilities:
· Provide oversight and coordinate all cancer population research at Tulane University
· Member of the LCRC Scientific Executive Committee, charged with decision making regarding all areas of cancer research under the auspices of the TCC and the LCRC
· Scientific review of all submitted research including clinical trials
· Member of the Program Management Committee, Tulane/Xavier University Cancer Health Disparities research planning grant, with lead responsibility in cultural competence and health disparities population research and education.
April 2004- July 2005:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Georgia State University;
Senior Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Office of the Director
· Provided technical expertise in the establishment of the new MPH program at GSU including the environmental health core curriculum.
· Co-authored the first of its kind urban health research proposal at GSU. The proposal was the only one approved and funded following a very competitive process to be funded. The multi-year, multi million dollar research project will be led by the Institute of Public Health (IPH), and will also augment the public health academic workforce with 16 tenure track faculty positions and 30 graduate research assistance-ships. The interdisciplinary research project will address four health problems in urban, underserved populations: 1) chronic disease and aging; 2) HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases; 3) injury and violence; 4) substance abuse and mental health. In addition, science gaps in important crosscutting research capacity building public health areas will be explored- including public health law; GIS, and evaluation methods.
· Since 2003, I also serve as Chair of the Morehouse MPH advisory board. During my leadership we reinvigorated the board’s membership- that now includes national leaders such as Dr. Georges Benjamin (APHA) and lead legislative assistant Aranthan Jones (congressional black caucus); redefined its mission and priorities; and fully participated in the recent CEPH accreditation process of the MPH program.
March 2000 – April 2004:
Associate Director for Workforce Development, Director Office of Workforce
Policy and Planning, Public Health Practice Program Office, CDC.
I directed the following programs:
1. The National Implementation Plan for Public Health
Workforce Development
Significant accomplishments:
· The CDC/ATSDR National Strategic Plan for Public Health Workforce Development in collaboration with 45 different partner organizations representing practice, academic, private industry and communities.
· The building of core competencies in the following areas: public health, development and national adoption of competency sets on Bioterrorism preparedness and response; emergency preparedness and response; informatics; public health law; and genomics.
· A three-tier system of credentialing in the public health system.
· An evaluation and research framework including workforce competency, organizational effectiveness, and health outcomes.
· The development and support of workforce development programs at the State and local level through the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) representing the first time public health workforce development was recognized as a national priority by the two largest practice professional organizations.
· A presenter and consultant to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) subcommittee charged with developing a special report devoted to the state of the nation’s public health workforce in the 21st century.
2. The National System of Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP)
Significant accomplishments:
· The CPHPs trained more than 200,000 public health and health care professionals; prepared over 180 different educational products focused on Bioterrorism preparedness and response; have formed formal partnerships with State and local agencies to carry out terrorism and workforce development education and training.
· The expansion of national system of CPHPs from 13 to 32 centers representing an FY03 budget of approximately $35M.
3. The National Public Health Training Program for Bioterrorism (BT) Preparedness and Response
· Developed a national Bioterrorism training plan that articulates technical content areas, target audiences and performance measures.
· Participated in Project Public Health Ready, the first national program aimed at voluntary certification of local health agencies that have in place trained staff and an “exercised and practice” emergency response plan.
· Developed and accomplished grant implementation of a new focus area in education and training in Bioterrorism Preparedness and response including program guidance, review at the CDC and at the DHHS levels of 62 grant applications and technical assistance.
· Participated in the CDC Responds satellite broadcast series that reached 1.4 million viewers; a series encompassing a broad range of topics including medical management of anthrax, smallpox, infection control and laboratory issues and health/risk communication. Over 44,000 videos were disseminated for free through the Public Health Foundation to health care professionals.
· Promoted the collaboration between the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and CDC to implement the national program, First Contact, First Response, designed to address Bioterrorism preparedness needs for medical students, residents and practicing physicians, and to convene an expert panel to define key domains of a curriculum in Bioterrorism preparedness for first year medical students.
· Fostered the collaboration between the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO), ASTHO, and CDC to implement a BT 101 training course for local public health workers.
· Disseminated critical smallpox related education materials to 3.5M clinicians nationwide.
4. CDC’s National Academic Partners Program.
· A 300% increase in research projects and funding support; representing $82.8M in FY 2002 and 2003.
· An increase in the number of Letter of Intent (to nearly 700) from researchers in academic institutions represented by ASPH, ATPM and AAMC. Areas of funded research include environmental health, chronic disease, infectious disease and public health practice research.
· The Trans-Association Partnership, a new initiative that will expand the Academic Partners Program to:
o Produce high quality, prevention-oriented research through multi-institutional collaboration to reduce health disparities
o Build partnering relationships across institutions
o Build research infrastructure at member institutions.
· A national tracking system for CDC-sponsored fellowships and internships at the masters and doctoral levels. Supported nearly 3,000 graduates of schools of public health and preventive medicine through fellowship/internship programs.
A new medical student rotation program that provides an opportunity for selected medical students to: Participate actively in the work of CDC; Acquire additional knowledge and skills in the areas of public health and prevention; Interact with role models in public health at a formative stage in the career decision
January 1999 - April 1999:
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR); budget $ 100M/yr; 400 scientists.
· Developed and presented, in collaboration with the Assistant Administrator and ATSDR staff, ATSDR’s 1999 Program Briefing for the Administrator of ATSDR and other CDC executive management.
· Provided leadership, working with other ATSDR managers, in addressing key issues of science and policy facing ATSDR in 1999 in the absence of a permanent Assistant Administrator. Chaired a group of senior managers tasked to address the strategic issues necessary to ensure ATSDR authorities and resources in a climate of change facing the agency in the next five years.
· Addressed key issues of science and policy associated with the toxicological profiles for mercury and dioxin, the Hanford Medical Monitoring Program, and the WHO Persistent Organic Pollutant treaty regarding the use of DDT in malaria-endemic countries.
· Was responsible for, in collaboration with EPA, creating the opportunity to provide, for the first time since ATSDR was formed, public-health-related Technical Assistance Grants (TAGs) to communities affected by exposures to hazardous substances associated with hazardous waste sites.
· Conducted congressional briefings for lead staffers on committees critical to ATSDR.
· Provided briefing to the Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), EPA, and other senior staff of the EPA OSWER on the state of environmental health science and ATSDR’s public health findings to date related to the Superfund program.
· Developed briefing packages for the Administrator, ATSDR, in preparation of congressional briefings.
· Played a key role in the development of public health action strategies in response to complex and high visibility environmental health issues including those of Grand Bois, Louisiana; Woonasquatucket, Rhode Island; and Calcasieu, Louisiana.
November 1995 - February 2000:
Director, Division of Health Education and Promotion), ATSDR.
· Provided leadership for a Division of 50 multi-disciplinary, culturally, and ethnically diverse staff and a FY 1999 budget of $18M. Planned, directed, coordinated, evaluated, and managed the operation of the Division. DHEP’s hallmark is the use of community-driven approaches to promote education and training for health care providers and other health professionals, to facilitate access to environmental medical services, and to establish the connection between environment and public health practice;
· Developed programs that focus on supporting ATSDR’s goal of preventing or reducing the harmful effects of exposure to hazardous substances. DHEP’s health promotion program integrates health education, risk communication, environmental medicine, and health promotion to assist communities affected by exposure to hazardous substances in the environment. The program supports three key goals:
o Prevention - proactive actions to prevent the adverse impact of hazardous substances;
o Intervention - actions to diminish or eliminate adverse consequences of exposure to hazardous substances;
o Capacity Building - actions to strengthen existing public health infrastructures to enhance environmental health services for affected communities.
Key Program Areas:
1. Site-Specific Health Education, Health Promotion and Risk
Communication Program
During my tenure as the Director, Division of Health Education and Promotion (DHEP), the research conducted in the areas of health education and risk communication significantly contributed to the science base of health promotion and disease prevention. The Site-Specific Health Education, Health Promotion and Risk Communication Program was designed to assist communities and health professionals nationwide in understanding, preventing, or reducing adverse health effects resulting from exposure to hazardous substances. These activities promoted awareness, increased knowledge, promoted behavioral change, provided clinical intervention services, and communicated potential health risks. Approximately 40,000 people living near federal facilities and other hazardous waste sites nationwide benefited from the services provided through these programs in FY 1999. In the context of environmental health, I led the development of national models to ascertain knowledge gain and behavioral change. The research conducted has led to intervention and prevention-based programs implemented nation-wide by partners in Federal, State, and local health agencies.
Specifically, leadership was provided in implementing comprehensive site-specific risk communication and health education programs at DOE and DOD facilities. The past and current exposures to a multitude of contaminants and the vast array of diverse constituents at these sites, posed unique risk communication challenges. Often, the successful risk communication efforts served as the foundation for numerous public health actions in communities living near these facilities. As a member of the CDC/ATSDR Energy Oversight Committee, I took a lead in providing overall policy and programmatic direction for public health programs at DOE facilities. In addition, ATSDR’s Risk Communication Program housed in DHEP was designated the lead for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Health Services on issues of science and policy in risk communication. The program’s work was published widely, nationally and internationally.
2. ATSDR’s Medical Monitoring Program
The purposes of this medical surveillance program were to screen target populations at significantly increased risk of a specific adverse health effect or outcome resulting from exposure to hazardous substances; identify individuals in need of further diagnosis and treatment; and arrange for appropriate clinical referrals. Medical monitoring, as implemented by ATSDR, were intended to achieve early detection of key adverse health outcomes; reduce new cases of disease in the community; and prevent progression or improve the outcome of identified health effects. The first project of this kind in the nation was being implemented to address the highest human exposure to lead documented in the United States experienced in the population affected by the Bunker Hill hazardous waste site in Kellog, Idaho. Using econometric decision modeling, I led the research that evaluated intervention options in this innovative medical monitoring program associated with past, current and potential future exposure to lead.
3. The National Professional Organizations Program
These National Professional Organization partnerships augmented ATSDR’s environmental health scientist team with 80,000 health professionals who specialized in occupational and environmental medicine, medical toxicology, preventive medicine, pediatrics, and nursing. The program significantly enhanced ATSDR’s capacity and public health infrastructure to support environmental medicine, health education, and health promotion.
4. Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) Program
This provided direction for ATSDR to establish PEHSUs across the country. This newly instituted national resource focused greater attention on the public health implications of childhood exposures to hazardous substances. The unit provided expertise in medical education and training, consultation, and clinical specialty referrals. Staff served as pediatric environmental medicine clinical consultants for health care providers nationwide. In FY 2000, the program expanded to include clinical fellowships and specialty focus areas such as asthma within individual centers. The significance of this program was realized not only by the commitment of communities and academic and national professional organizations, but also by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who was co-funding several units. Activities at the PEHSUs had a positive health impact for more than 75,000 children, concerned parents, and health care providers. In addition to clinical and health education services, several units were engaged in disease-specific research such as pediatric asthma. I played a leadership role in the formulation, implementation, translation and dissemination of the research.
5. The Distance Learning Program
The Distance Learning Program enabled ATSDR to reach the widest possible audience with environmental health training. ATSDR’s educational outreach strategy included satellite broadcast adaptation, case studies in environmental medicine (CSEMs), and web-based training modules. In FY 1999, 30,000 physicians and other health care providers utilized the CSEMs to increase their knowledge in the diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance of persons exposed to hazardous substances. Full implementation of the satellite broadcast and web-based components of the CSEM program were intended to result in a 100% increase in reaching the intended target audiences.
6. The National Environmental Health Nursing Initiative
Provided leadership to implement this initiative by developing critical expertise in environmental health for nurse professionals, the largest single group of health care providers. A component of this initiative is a national strategic plan focused on the areas of practice, applied research, and education. ATSDR was selected by the national partners to serve as the programs lead federal agency.
7. The Environmental Health Prevention Effectiveness Program
Consistent with the practice of prevention effectiveness (PE) in public health, this program applied a variety of quantitative methodologies to assess the impact of ATSDR’s environmental health policies, programs, and practices on health outcomes. The program emphasized applied research to enhance the scientific basis for applying PE tools in environmental health practices, and strengthening PE expertise at the state and local levels. Applied research included collaborative efforts with centers within CDC (e.g., NCCDPHP and NCEH) and focused on the influence of individual and neighborhood socio-economic and demographic characteristics on the effectiveness of intervention strategies related to exposure to lead, as well as the factors affecting environmental health education strategies
8. Global Environmental Health Education and Training
Under this initiative, physicians practicing in several countries in Europe and in the North and Latin Americas participated in training programs focused on a variety of public health areas. These areas included environmental medicine, medical management of acute chemical exposures, toxicology, and epidemiology. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Health Resources and Services Administration=s Health Education Centers, and ATSDR are now collaborating in a joint effort to educate physicians practicing in medically underserved communities on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border.
9. Psychological Responses to Hazardous Waste
Provided leadership to DHEP in continuing to build the knowledge and science base to broaden the understanding of the biomedical and behavioral consequences in communities affected by hazardous substances. In addition to applied research, the program also included the development and implementation of national intervention strategies in communities affected by hazardous substances. Through a series of expert panels that I convened, significant research was conducted in the area of psychological sequelae associated with hazardous waste exposure.
March 1993 – November 1995:
Chief Biomedical Officer for Public Health Practice, Public Health
Practice Coordination Group (PHPCG), Office of the Assistant Administrator (OAA), ATSDR.
· Health Activities Recommendation Panel (HARP)
This intra-agency, multi-disciplinary panel evaluated information and data developed in agency documents to make recommendations and ensure conduct of for follow-up health activities for communities.
· ATSDR's Minority Health (MHP) and Environmental Justice Programs
The CDC/ATSDR’s MHP primary goal was to prevent adverse health effects and environmental injustice in disadvantaged communities and people of color exposed to hazardous substances. This commitment was prompted, in part, by Presidential Executive Order No. 12898. ATSDR’s Mississippi Delta health and environment project was chosen as a national model to address health disparities in one of the poorest regions of the county.
· Public Health Actions
This responsibility included coordination of public health actions to provide public health leadership to intervene and where possible eliminate the adverse health effects of hazardous waste sites/releases.
· Agency Community Involvement Program
This program involved the development of an agency-wide framework to ensure incorporation of community involvement across all agency program areas.
· Special Projects
This responsibility included providing oversight and inter-/intra-agency coordination of agency special projects including the Bloomington PCB Project, the Medical Assistance Project and the Psychological Effects of Toxic Exposure Project.
March 1991 - March 1993:
Assistant Director for Public Health Practice, Division of Health Assessment and Consultation (DHAC), ATSDR.
· Evaluated DHAC programs to ensure adherence to public health practice and science policy procedures. These programs included: the public health assessment (PHA) process; the conduct of public health investigations; the determination of appropriate public health actions, risk communication, and community involvement.
· Provided leadership and guidance in enhancing the PHA program which included development of the process to include health outcome data and information on community health concerns in the process.
· Provided oversight in the conduct of community health investigations.
· Developed the framework for a database project to develop a system to better assess the public health impact of human exposure to hazardous substances associated with sites or releases. Participated in the development of the federal facilities information management system (FFIMS) aimed at integrating public-health-related data of federal facilities nationwide.
August 1989 - March 1993:
Senior Medical Officer, DHAC, ATSDR.
· Provided guidance on environmental health issues.
· Reviewed division documents for compliance to Agency requirements and adherence to appropriate scientific judgment.
· Provided oversight to DHAC health outcome initiatives.
· Developed the process to evaluate data for appropriate follow-up health activities.
· Served as Mentor for ASPH students and new physicians.
November 1988 - August 1989:
Chairperson, National Medical Waste Group, Office of the Associate Administrator, ATSDR.
· Principal author: The Public Health Implications of Medical Waste: A Report to Congress.
· Science basis of national legislation, The Medical Waste tracking Act of 1988, was formed by this report which led to state-based promulgation of laws and policies in nearly all 50 states and many local ordinances. Issues of science addressed by the report included:
· Denaturation rates, characteristics of infectious agents, and probability of transmission of infectious agents in health care settings.
· Probability of transmission of infectious agents in the heath care setting
· Generation and disposal of a vast array of medical waste including gloves, IV bags, etc.
August 1987 - November 1988:
Medical Officer/Toxicologist, Office of Health Assessment, Health Sciences Branch, ATSDR.
· Provided medical toxicology expertise to evaluate the adverse health effects of exposure to hazardous waste.
· Developed PHAs to include the evaluation and analysis of environmental data and recommending public health actions.
· Provided emergency consultation to interagency staff, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other federal, state, and local health, environmental, and natural resource agencies.
1981 – 1985:
Manager, Regional Health Care Center, Moengo, Suriname.
· Responsible for management of a regional primary care center with five satellite clinics, providing health care and public health services to 26,000 persons. Planned, managed, and evaluated all health care services provided.
· Developed and implemented several public health programs on childhood immunization, adolescent health education, and prenatal care.
JOB-RELATED HONORS
2009 Professor, University of Suriname, Faculty of Medical Sciences
2008 American Public Health Association Science Board to provide expertise in environmental health, policy, and public health systems.
2008 Herbert Nickens Award: for promoting research in cancer prevention benefiting minorities and the medically underserved
2007 Woman of the year: New Orleans City Business
2007 Certificate of Appreciation, National Partnership for Comprehensive Cancer Control in recognition of valuable contributions as faculty for the Comprehensive Cancer Control Leadership Institutes
2006 Chair, C-Change expert panel for the development of national core competencies in cancer care
2005 Member, expert panel for the development of national competencies of the epidemiology workforce
2005 Affilaited Professor, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
2005 CDC Special Act award for accomplishments related to the development of the new MPH program at Georgia State University.
2004 Adjunct Associate Professor – Georgia State University, Institute of Public Health
2004 Honorary member, Delta Omicron Chapter of the National Delta Omega Society, in recognition of career efforts in Public Health and exemplary model in public health leadership.
2004 Recognized by the Regional Administrator, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services with a Certificate of Excellence for outstanding contributions to the CMS Second Annual 3E Summit.
2003 Recognized by the Director of the Office of State and Local Preparedness, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Office of the Secretary, DHHS, for serving as a Department-Level Reviewer of the State Bioterrorism Preparedness Plans.
2001-2003 Officially delegated as Acting Director of the Public Health Practice Program Office during periodic absences of the Director.
1986-2006 Adjunct Assistant Professor - Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1987-2004 Consistent Outstanding Performance Ratings
2003 CDC Special Act/Service Award for providing national leadership in the cause of strengthening the public health workforce by creating a national network of academic Centers for Public Health Preparedness and improving the training and education of the public health workforce to increase their preparedness for terrorism.
2003 Special recognition from the Vice Commander of Keesler Air Force Base, 81st Training Wing, Colonel Julia Murray, for introducing her keynote address as part of the 2003 Women’s History Month Program, and arranging her visit to key CDC managers and scientists.
2003 Certificate of Appreciation for support and contribution to the “2003 Women’s History Month Program” at CDC presented by the Association of Professional Women and Chapter 322 of the Federal Managers Association.
2002 CDC Group Honor Award and PHPPO Group Award Certificate of Appreciation - Information Services - CDC Responds Series, “For continually providing the public health and medical communities with critical information about diagnosis, management, and infection control issues following the events of September 11th.”
2002 CDC Group Honor Award – Service to the Public – Health Alert Network EOC Staff, “For
immediate and dedicated response to the events of September 11th to ensure that vital public health information was accessible and available to key public health officials across the nation.”
2002 PHPPO Group Award Certificate of Appreciation – Service to the Public – “For responding quickly to the events of September 11th to ensure that vital public health information was accessible and available to key public health officials across the Nation and for exemplary commitment to sustain operations on a 24/7 basis during a time of crisis for our Nation.”
2002 Certificate of Recognition from the CDC Director, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, “For your extraordinary efforts on behalf of the American people in response to the public health emergencies after September 11th.
2002 U.S. Public Health Service Eighth Annual Engineering Literary Award in recognition of co-authorship of the award winning paper, “Communities at the Center: in Response to Community Concerns at Hazardous Waste Sites.”
2002 Group Award Certificate of Appreciation presented to Partners in Public Health Workforce Development, “In recognition of leadership, commitment and support to CDC in achieving our vision of life-long learning in public health.”
2001 Certificate of Appreciation, AIn recognition of leadership, commitment and support to CDC in achieving our vision of life-long learning in public health.
2001 Special Service Award for activities associated with the CDC Health Alert Network and the Emergency Operations Center in the aftermath of September 11th.
2000 Certificate of Appreciation for a “long and distinguished service to the growth of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and tireless and enthusiastic development of the Division of Health Education and Promotion”.
1999 Graduate CDC, University of California Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI)
Scholars Program. (PHLI leadership story was selected for national publication.)
1997 CDC and ATSDR Honor Award - Service to the Public
1996 Outstanding ATSDR Science Award
1994 Letter of Appreciation from Congressman Donald Payne for testimony related to public health effects associated with incinerators.
1993 Letter of Appreciation from Connecticut Department of Health - providing public health leadership in coordinating public health actions at Stratford site where there was a public health threat.
1993 Letter of Appreciation from Congressman Newt Gingrich
1993 & 94 Letters of Appreciation from Tulane University for participating in the Tulane/Xavier Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Environments of the Mississippi River Basin Project.
1992 ATSDR Health Assessment Group Honor Award
1990 ATSDR Environmental Health Scientist of the Year
1990 Public Health Service Special Recognition Award for Efforts on Medical Waste
Report to Congress
1989 Honor Graduate of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Executive
Development Seminar
1989 ATSDR/CDC Advancement of Women Award - in honor of active recruitment of women and minorities for ATSDR
1988 ATSDR Health Assessment Group Honor Award
EDITORIAL BOARDS and PEER REVIEWER:
· International Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Associate Editor of Debates/Commentaries and Perspectives
· Emerging Infectious Diseases
· Health Affairs
· American Journal of Public Health
· Public Health Reports
· Health Promotion Practice
· Journal of Public Health Management and Practice ; Editorial Board
· International Journal of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology
· Environmental Health Perspectives
· Journal of Environmental Health
· Louisiana Medical Society Journal
COMMITTEES:
· Executive Committee, Tulane University SPHTM
· Scientific Executive Committee, Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium
· Executive Committee, Tulane University BSPH program
· Program Management Committee, Tulane- Xavier Universities P-20 grant to address cancer health disparities research and education.
· Bring New Orleans Back Commission- Co-Chair , Environmental Health Sciences Committee
· Chair, C-Change Cancer Workforce Strategic Initiative
· Pfizer Public Health Advisory Board; Faculty Scholar Award selection committee
· National Public Health Leadership Society, Chair Education Services Committee
· CDC Foundation Working Group on Population Health and Medical Education
· Consultant to the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
· Public Health Research Workgroup of the CDC Futures Initiative; Sub-Group Co-Chair
· Chair, Morehouse MPH Advisory Board
· Association of American Medical Colleges Bioterrorism Curriculum Expert Panel
· Project Public Health Ready Steering Committee
· Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Workforce Collaborative
· Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine Executive Committee
· Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness Committee (National Association of County & City Health Officials)
· Chair, CDC/ATSDR Task Force on Public Health Workforce Development
· Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice
· Kellogg Foundation: National Environmental Health Nursing Curriculum Development Project - Advisory Board Member
· International Network for Children’s Health and Environmental Safety
· National Association of County and City Health Officials Workforce and Leadership Development Advisory Committee
· National Advisory Board for the W.K. Kellogg African-American Public Health Fellowship and Development Program to Eliminate Health Disparities, the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
· National Environmental Educational Training Foundation Steering Committee Member
· National Medical Waste Workgroup
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
· Barbeau, DN, Grimsley, FL, White, LE, El-Dahr, JM, and Lichtveld, M. 2009. Mold Exposure and Health Effects Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Annual Review of Public Health. Invited manuscript.
· Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response in Immigrants and Refugees. Benedict I. Truman, MD, MPH, Timothy Tinker, DrPH, MPH, Elaine Vaughan, PhD, Bryan K. Kapella, MD, MS, Marta Brenden, MSW, Celine V. Woznica, DrPH, Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH. American Journal of Public Health. May 2009
· A Competency-Based Approach to Expanding the Cancer Care Workforce: Part II – Proof of Concept. Alison P. Smith, BA, BSN, RN, Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, Kathleen R. Miner, PhD, MPH, Sabrina L. Tyus, MPH, and Lauren N. Gase, MPH. Med Surge Nursing. January/February 2009. Vol 18.
· From Competencies to Capacity: Assessing the National Epidemiology Workforce. Lichtveld MY, Boulton M, Lemmings, J, Gale J. Public Health Reports, Vol. 123, Issue 2, Supplement 1. 128-135.2008
· A Competency Based Approach to Expanding the Cancer Care Workforce. Lichtveld MY, Smith AP. Nursing Economics, The Journal for Health Care Leaders, Vol. 25 No. 2, March/April 2007.
· Defining and Working with Susceptible Populations. Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters. Hurricane Katrina. Lichtveld MY. Institute of Medicine. The National Academies Press. 58- 61. 2007
· Terrorism and Human Health Risk- from Assessment to Management. Lichtveld MY Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, HERA 11(3). 438-537.2005 Guest Editor special issue.
· The Public Health Infrastructure and Our Nation’s Health. Baker EL, Potter MA, Jones DL, Mercer SL, Cioffi JP, Green LW, Halverson PK, Lichtveld MY, Fleming DW. Annu.Rev.Public Health. 2005.26:303-318.
· Research Agenda for Public Health Workforce Development. Cioffi JP, Lichtveld MY. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice May-June 2004, Vol. 10, No 3, 186-192.
· “Public Health Workforce Development: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities.” Lichtveld MY, Cioffi JP. 2003. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. November – December 2003, Vol. 9, No. 6, 443 – 450.
· “People Protected – Public Health Prepared Through a Competent Workforce.” Lichtveld MY, Cioffi JP, Henderson J; Sage M, Steele, L. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
September – October 2003, Vol. 9, No. 5, 340-343.
· “Credentialing the Public Health Workforce: An idea Whose Time Has Come.” Cioffi JP, Lichtveld MY, Thielen L, Miner, K. 2003. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
November – December 2003, Vol. 9, No. 6, 451 – 458.
· “Are Public Health Services Available Where They are Most Needed? An Examination of Local Health Department Services.” Mete C, Cioffi JP, Lichtveld MY. 2002. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Research Supplement. 2003, Vol. 9 No.3, 214-223.
· “Communities at the Center: In Response to Community Concerns at Hazardous Waste Sites.” Williams RC, Lichtveld MY, et al. Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology, Vol 2, numbers 2-3: 56-66. The publication received the U.S. Public Health Service Eighth Annual Engineering Literary Award in 2002.
· “Risk Assessment Through the Lens of Bioterrorism – Lessons Learned From the Public Health Frontline.” Lichtveld MY. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 2002, Vol 8, No 5: 917-920.
· Partnerships for Front-Line Success: A Call for a National Action Agenda on Workforce Development. Lichtveld MY, Cioffi JP, Baker EL, et al. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. July 2001.
· “Reducing Health Disparities Through Community-Based Research.” Baker EL, Jr. White LE, Lichtveld MY Public Health Reports. 116(6), 2001.
· A Global life-Long Learning System: Building a Stronger Frontline Against Health Threats- A Global and National Implementation Plan for Public Health Workforce Development. Lichtveld MY, Cioffi JP.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, Public Health Practice Program Office. January 2001.
· CDC/ATSDR Strategic Plan for Public Health Workforce Development. Report from the Task Force on Public Health Workforce Development, Lichtveld ML, Cioffi JP. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Practice Program Office. April 2000.
· Special Issue on “Evaluation of Health Hazards in Communities Exposed to Environmental Toxicants.” International Journal of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology, 2000. Vol 2, No. 2-3: 216 pp. Lichtveld MY, Au W, Falk H. Guest editors.
· The Public Health Implications of Medical Waste: A Report to Congress. Lichtveld MY, Rodenbeck S, Lybarger J. 215 pp; Submitted to Congress September 1990; NTIS availability November 1990.
· The Case of Pestering Pesticide. Lichtveld MY, Tucker P, Tinker TL. Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology. 2000. Vol 2, No. 2-3: 112-120.
· Translating Science into Public Health.” Lichtveld MY, Tinker, TL. Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology. 2000. Vol 2, No. 2-3: 210-215.
· Biomedical Testing of the Kidney for Persons Exposed to Hazardous Substances in the Environment. Lybarger J, Lichtveld MY, Amler R. Renal Failure. Vol 3, Number 4. 263-274. 1999.
· Urinary Biomarkers: Roles in Risk Assessment to Environmental and Occupational Nephrotoxins; Monitoring of Effects and Evaluation of Mechanisms of Toxicity. Price RG, Wedeen R, Lichtveld MY, Lybarger J, Porter A, Fels L, Stolte H, Safirstein R, Mueller P, Mandley S, Whiting P, Gomez RA, and Finn W. Renal Failure, Vol 3, No 4. xiii-xviii. 1999.
· A Community’s Quest for Answers - the Grand Bois Story. Lichtveld, MY. Leadership in Public Health, Vol. 5, number 1, Fall 1999: 2-8.
· Did we Make a Difference? ATSDR’s Framework for Community-Focused Evaluation. Lichtveld MY, Tinker T, Christenson G, Chukwuka S. International Association for Public Participation. Interact: Journal of Public Participation.
· Public Health Response to Methyl Parathion Misuse: Human Exposure-Driven Risk Management. Lichtveld MY, Gehle K, Brackin B. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA. Epidemiology. July 1998.