OHHI National Advisory Panel

The OHH Act authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish an oceans and human health advisory panel (AP) to assist in the development and implementation of the NOAA OHHI. A Federal Register Notice (FRN) was posted on September 5, 2005 which announced the opportunity to nominate individuals to the new OHHI Advisory Panel. The AP is organized to provide for balanced representation of individuals with multi-disciplinary expertise in the marine and biomedical sciences. As stated in the FRN, the AP shall not exceed 15 members who are appointed for three-year terms, renewable once, and who serve at the discretion of the NOAA Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management. The AP is not subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The panel is expected to meet twice yearly.

Further information about the Advisory Panel is available here.

The panel has had meetings on 7-8 September 2006 in Washington, DC and 8-9 March 2007 in Seattle, WA (Federal Register Announcement. The next meeting will be 19-20 November 2007 in Washington, DC.)

NAP Members Web Page (password required)

OHHI National Advisory Panel Members

A. Alonso Aguirre, D.V.M, Ph.D.	Vice President for Conservation Medicine, Wildlife Trust Co-Founder, Consortium for Conservation Medicine
Lorraine C. Backer, Ph.D., M.P.H.	Team Leader, Emerging Environmental Threats Team Health Studies Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Keith Bedford, Ph.D.	Professor of Civil Engineering Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science; Senior Research Fellow Ohio Supercomputer Center Ohio State University
William Benson, Ph.D.	Director, Gulf Ecology Division National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory Office of Research and Development U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Robert R. Bidigare, Ph.D.	Leader, PRCMB Facilities Core and Harmful Algal Bloom project Professor, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii Director, Center for Marine Microbial Ecology and Diversity (CMMED), University of Hawaii
Elaine Faustman, Ph.D.	Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Toxicology Program Director, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication Director, Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
William Fenical, Ph.D.	Distinguished Professor of Oceanography Director, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Lora E. Fleming, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.	Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health and Marine Biology & Fisheries University of Miami School of Medicine and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Co-Director NSF-NIEHS Oceans and Human Health Center
Jay Grimes, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Coastal Sciences Gulf Coast Research Laboratory The University of Southern Mississippi
Zhanjiang (John) Liu, Ph.D.	Alumni Professor and Director, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquaculture & Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences Director, Aquatic Genomics Unit Auburn University
Tony MacDonald	Director, Urban Coast Institute Monmouth University
David H. Niebuhr, Ph.D.	Vice President, Education Division Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium
Todd O'Hara, D.V.M., Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Wildlife Toxicology Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mercedes Pascual, Ph.D.	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Clifford W. Scherer, Ph.D.	Associate Professor Social and Behavioral Research Unit Department of Communications Cornell University