Collaborative on Health and the Environment

"The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) was initiated at a meeting at the San Francisco Medical Society on March 21, 2002, and co-sponsored with Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in Bolinas, California. A two-day conference in Bolinas followed the San Francisco meeting, where a smaller group of committed individuals came together to determine the overall structure of the network."

People
Accessed December 2013:


 * Chair of CHE - Philip R. Lee, MD, Former United States Assistant Secretary of Health, Chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco, Professor of Social Medicine (Emeritus), Department of Medicine and Senior Advisor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, UC San Francisco
 * Vice-Chair of CHE - Michael Lerner (Commonweal), PhD, President, Commonweal, Co-Coordinator of CHE's Breast Cancer Working Group, Co-Coordinator of CHE's Cancer Working Group, Co-Coordinator of CHE's Integrative Health Working Group
 * Elise Miller, MEd, Director

Consultants and Advisors to CHE
 * Davis Baltz, MS, Co-coordinator, CHE Special Projects
 * Steve Heilig, MPH, CHE Director of Public Health & Education, and Director of Public Health & Education, San Francisco Medical Society
 * Polly Hoppin, ScD, Program Director, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Co-Coordinator of CHE's Working Group on Asthma and the Environment
 * Sarah Howard, Coordinator of CHE's Diabetes-Obesity Spectrum Working Group
 * Génon Jensen, Executive Director, Health and Environment Alliance; Coordinator of CHE's Asthma and the Environment and Climate Change Working Groups
 * Pete Myers, PhD, CEO, Environmental Health Sciences
 * Sharyle Patton, Director of CHE Special Projects
 * Heather Sarantis, MS, Co-coordinator, CHE Special Projects
 * Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, CHE Science Director, and Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; Coordinator of CHE's Science Working Group
 * Antoinette (Toni) Stein, PhD, Coordinator of CHE's Working Group on Electromagnetic Fields
 * Maria Valenti, National Coordinator of the Healthy Aging and the Environment Initiative, mvalenti@igc.org


 * Chairman of Science Advisory Committee - Phil Landrigan, MD, Director of the Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Contact
Web: http://www.healthandenvironment.org