Ms. O'Keefe is the senior technical advisor for the research ethics board of Population Services International in Washington D.C. Population Services International is a non-profit global public health organization. Ms. O’Keefe earned her M.P.H. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 and has been working in areas of research ethics, mental health and international health. In 2002, Ms. O’Keefe was the principal research associate for the Center for Court Innovation in New York City, where she evaluated the impact of the first mental health court in the state of New York. She is author of publications related to this work. Ms. O'Keefe's international work began in 1992 as a U.S. Peace Corp volunteer followed by her position as a program officer with the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID), providing emergency funding for 12 South African countries.
Dr. Morland is the Director of the Public Health Research Institute of Southern California and adjunct Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is formally trained as an environmental epidemiologist with a research portfolio to address issues of nutrition, exercise, as well as the environment among older adult populations and others. Dr. Morland's interest in social justice research began during her masters in public health training at the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, extended into her doctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and continues today. She is the author of seminal peer reviewed publications in this area of public health research, as well as the co-author of three books on topics of environmental epidemiology and built environments and most recently she is the editor of the book Local Food Environments: Food Access in America. Finally, Dr. Morland serves on committees for the National Institute of Heath and Human Services and is dedicated to applied programs aimed at creating just and equitable living environments for all Americans. Currently her work focuses on aging and health and she is the principal investigator of a cohort of 1,450 adults 65 years and older living in NYC.
Dr. Campleman is an environmental toxicologist and epidemiologist with non-profit experience in both the private (energy and power generation regulation; chronic disease and clinical research) and public sectors (cancer research and surveillance, regulatory toxicology) related to the utilization of toxicology in public-health related decision making, as well as, technical expertise in exposure and disease surveillance. Currently, at the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT), she is the Program Manager for the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC) managing data collection, data quality activities and research protocols across over 50 research and clinical surveillance sites. Previously, she served over ten years as a regional epidemiologist, researcher, certified tumor registrar and medical data specialist at the California Cancer Registry and Westat (Rockville, MD). In addition, as a Project Manager and Environmental Health Scientist at the Electric Power Research Institute, her research focused on the health effects of trace metals and organics; the assessment of effects related to mixed chemical exposures; cumulative risk assessment; and, the development and utilization dose-response models for quantifying risk at low exposure levels. Dr. Campleman is a Diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT) and serves on advisory committees related to toxic exposures and human health.