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Professor Hynes is Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health where she works on issues of the urban environment (including lead poisoning, asthma and the indoor environment, safe housing, and urban gardening and agriculture); environmental justice; and feminism.  For her writing, teaching, and applied research, she has won numerous awards, including the 2003 National Delta Omega Award for Innovative Curriculum in Public Health; the US EPA Environmental Merit Award and the 2006 APHA Award for the Lead-Safe Yard Project (2000); and the 1996 National Arbor Day Foundation Book Award for A Patch of Eden: America’s Inner-City Gardeners.   She has collaborated with and advised many community-based organizations and non-governmental organizations, including the international Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Groundworks USA, and recently served on the Cumulative Risk/Impact Working Group of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council of the US EPA. 

Professor Hynes works to widen the intersection of the university and the community through community-based research and teaching with the goal of using public health knowledge for education, action and social change.  Most recently she has been co-director of the Healthy Public Housing Initiative in Boston funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and numerous foundations and is a director in the Prevention Research Center at BU School of Public Health funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  She is also investigating, writing, and speaking on the health effects of war and militarism on women, in particular, and on society.

Mr. Mayfield is an Environmental Health Specialist at Public Health – Seattle & King County with twelve years experience focusing on working with people to identify their individual health and environment concerns and empowering them with the foundation and knowledge to create their own approach to resolving environmental issues. He is a graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in Environmental Health and has additional course work in physics, chemistry, and technical communication. For the past nine years, he has worked in the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County developing and coordinating industry specific education projects. By working jointly with industry representatives, he identifies needs and barriers that prevent or impede safe hazardous waste management practices. He then works with individual businesses and government agencies as appropriate to remove, minimize, or at least increase the understanding of the barriers to those affected. He is a certified lead risk inspector and an EPA certified environmental sampling plan designer. He has provided educational presentations in local schools and community centers and worked collaboratively with the Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle Public Schools, Washington State Labor and Industries, Washington State Department of Health and local non-profit community organizations.

Mr. Treser began his career in Environmental Health in 1971 as an environmental health inspector with the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked in the Model Cities Program doing housing inspections, working with the Federally Assisted Code Enforcement Program, Rodent Control and Selective Demolition programs until 1975, when as an environmental health supervisor, he went on leave to obtain a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Michigan. In 1976 he returned to the Allegheny County Health Department and was promoted to environmental health administrator. There he developed a comprehensive training program for new environmental health employees. In 1980, he accepted a position as Lecturer in Environmental Health with the University of Washington's Department of Environmental Health to manage a continuing competency education system for environmental health personnel. Chuck is currently a Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Advisor in the University of Washington’s Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as the School-wide extended MPH degree program.

Mr. Williams is an Environmental Health Specialist with Public Health – Seattle & King County. He is currently the Remediation Coordinator for a HUD funded asthma research home intervention study and manages the Seattle Asthma service program. In addition, he is a trainer for the nationally recognized American Lung Association’s Master Home Environmentalist Program and is on the steering committees for Seattle Healthy Homes, the King County Asthma Forum, and has participated with the National Center for Healthy Homes. Mr. Williams has also been a principal investigator in the Community Environmental Health Initiative studying toxics in the home environment and the Home Health Hazards Project training health professionals in home assessments.

Dr. Frantz received his Ph.D. in Pathobiology from the Johns Hopkins University, helped pioneer the concept of urban integrated pest management (IPM), has conducted research for more than four decades, and has authored many articles and reports on IPM and related subjects.  He was recipient of the 1998 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Quality Award.  Dr. Frantz is the Principal Officer of Global Environmental Options, LLC (GEO), an organization concerned with research and advisory services regarding pest/disease vector species and IPM policies and procedures.  Animals of interest include cockroaches, rodents, bats, raccoons, and birds.  GEO specializes in the prevention of pest/vector species’ direct and indirect contact with humans and domestic animals through safe and sustainable, ecologically sound, intervention strategies based upon a knowledge of animal behavioral ecology, building science, and human behavior.  Experience includes: healthy housing design guidelines and intervention specifications; IPM of cockroaches, rats and mice, and asthma prevention in inner-city residences; IPM program design for buildings and communities; pesticide misuse and poisoning prevention; house bat IPM and conservation; and non-formal public health education. Dr. Frantz has conducted scientific research and/or consulted internationally and nationally; clients include: Amanat Al-Assima (Baghdad), Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, Bio-Integral Resource Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Geographic Channel, New York State Office of General Services, Pan American Health Organization, Swiss National Television, The Architects Collaborative, U.S. EPA, U.S. National Park Service, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board and World Health Organization.