EHA WEHD 2021 Speakers

Madelyn Gustafson is a Project Coordinator at the National Environmental Health Association. She primarily works on Climate and Health, Environmental Health Tracking, the Model Aquatic Health Code, and Preparedness programs. She also manages the Vector Program Committee, Climate and Health Committee, as well as the Preparedness Program Committee. Maddie received her Bachelor of Science in Community Health Education/Public Health from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.

Tanya Morrison is the National President of the New Zealand Institute of Environmental Health (NZIEH) and has been an Environmental Health Officer in New Zealand for over 10 years. Key areas of interest within Environmental Health include food safety, swimming pool water quality, noise control, and the appearance industries such as tattooing, beauty therapy and skin piercing. Tanya has presented at multiple conferences within New Zealand and Australia previously and has also guest lectured at Universities within New Zealand for Environmental Health students.

Dr Andrew Mathieson is a senior lecturer in the college of health and medical, Australian National University, Canberra, a Director of Environmental Health New South Wales and is the education director of the International Federation of Environmental Health. Dr Mathieson worked for 12 years in UK local government before transitioning to academic life in 1998. He also is an internationally respected consultant in Environmental Health (EH) and Public Health (PH). His most recent contract was working for the EU in the middle east reporting on the health projects put in place in response to the Syrian crisis. He has provided EH/PH advice at government and inter-governmental level on various topics including WASH, Food Safety, SPS, disaster recovery, resilience, training and sustainability. He emigrated to Australia with his family in 2011 and joined ANU. He became a citizen in 2019. Dr Mathieson as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Fellow of Institute of Food Science and Technology and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Jessica Spencer is a proud Wiradjuri woman from Central West New South Wales. As a graduate of the NSW Health Aboriginal Environmental Health Officer Training Program Jessica has achieved a Bachelor Applied Science (Environmental Health) from the University of Western Sydney. Jessica has also obtained a Master of Applied Epidemiology from the Australian National University. Jessica has been in the role of Regional Aboriginal Environmental Health Project Officer for the NSW Health Aboriginal Environmental Health Unit for the last six years. In this role, Jessica is responsible for delivering environmental health initiatives at the grass roots level while feeding outcomes of these initiatives and other observations from the field into evidence based policy at the state level.

Jamal Hisham Hashim is a visiting professor of environmental health at Universiti Selangor and Universitas Diponegoro. He is also a director of Provenue Corporation Sdn Bhd which specialises in health risk and impact assessment. He was formerly a research fellow at the United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) and Malaysia’s first appointed professor of environmental health at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). Prof. Jamal obtained his PhD in environmental health from the University of Michigan. He taught, conducted research and consultancy in environmental and occupational health at UKM and UNU-IIGH for 36 years, and supervised a total of 14 PhD students. His research interests are mainly on the health effects of heavy metals, pesticides, solvents, air pollution, risk assessment, and recently, climate change. He has been the principal and co-investigator of 20 research projects, and has over 410 publications and presentations to date, including 104 full articles in refereed and indexed journals. He is an editor of the Environmental Analysis, Health and Toxicology and Frontiers in Occupational Health journals. He has been engaged as an environmental health consultant in over 90 local and overseas projects, primarily in the area of environmental health impact and risk assessment. He has also been consulted by the World Health Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, Risk Science Institute and the Institute of Medicine in the U.S., the governments of Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia on various environmental health issues. He is a registered environmental impact assessment consultant with the Department of Environment, Malaysia, a member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in the U.K., an honorary fellow of the Academy of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Malaysia and a council member of the Asia Chapter of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. He sat on the Scientific Expert Panel of the National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA), and currently chairs the Thematic Working Group of Environmental Health Experts under the National Environmental Health Action Plan (NEHAP).

Julie Barratt is a Chartered EHP and a Barrister. She practised environmental health in Northern Ireland, England and Wales for ten years. She qualified as barrister and spent 20 years practising law in private practise and in local government, specialising in regulatory law. She then took up the newly created post of Director Wales for the CIEH, retiring in 2018 to run her own legal training company. She is the author or two definitive books covering local government regulatory law and practice. She took up the post of President of CIEH in 2021. The theme of her presidency is member engagement, which includes the establishment of a mentor scheme for CIEH members and supporting students on the Pathway to Registration.