Informed Green Solutions

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Advisory Board

Ann Blake, Ph.D.

Environmental & Public Health Consultant
Alameda CA 94501

Dawn Gouge, Ph.D.

University of Arizona
Maricopa Agricultural Center
Assistant Specialist/Professor Urban Entomologist
Maricopa, AZ 85239-3010

Jason Marshall, Ph.D.

University of Massachusetts
Toxics Use Reduction Institute
Laboratory Director
Lowell, MA 01854-2866 

Informed Green Solutions Board

Victoria Leonard, RN, FNP, PhD

Vickie Leonard, RN, FNP, PhD is the Director of the Improving Environmental Health in Early Care and Education Project at the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at UCSF. She has previously worked as a Child Care Health Consultant, first as a nurse at the California Childcare Health Program, UCSF School of Nursing, then at the UCSF Institute for
Health & Aging. Dr. Leonard was the principle author of the California Department of Education, Child Development Division’s Preschool Learning Foundations in Health and Physical Development (Volume 2, released in 2011). While at CCHP, she developed an interest in environmental health in early care and education. She was the principle author of Integrated Pest Management: A Toolkit for Early Care and Education Programs, developed through a grant from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. She worked with Dr. Asa Bradman on a Department of Pesticide Regulation-funded survey of pesticide use in California Child Care Centers, and was the PI  on a second Toolkit: Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting: A
Toolkit for Early Care and Education. She worked on a project to develop a continuing education module on The Healthy Schools Act for pest management professionals working in child care programs and schools, the hazards of pesticides for children and child care and school staff, and the use of IPM in childcare centers and schools. She has presented to audiences of child care providers, directors, EPA staff and administrators on health hazards associated with environmental exposures as well as IPM and green cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting. Vickie heads up the PEHSU’s Environmental Health in Early Care and Education Project.

Nancy J Simcox, RN, MS

Nancy Simcox, MS is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the UW DEOHS and a research industrial hygienist with over 20 years of experience in providing industrial hygiene assessments and interventions in workplaces and for academic research projects. In February 2014, she became the Director of the Continuing Education Programs at the University of Washington at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. From October 2012- August 2014, she was the Outreach Manager for the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Continuing Education Programs at the University of Washington. In 2011, she rejoined the University of Washington Field Research and Consultation Group.

From 2002 to 2011, she conducted workplace site visits, designed exposure assessment protocols for environmental and occupational research, and performed data reduction and statistical analysis for health-based research projects at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health. She also served as the project manager of a multiyear effort -Green Cleaning: Exposure Characterization and Adoption Process Among Custodians, funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health/National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety. Ms. Simcox has worked on many relevant occupational health and safety projects including those related to chemical policy reform, healthy homes, community collaboration interventions for farmworker health and safety, and worker health and safety training programs. She also served on the Connecticut Council of Occupational Safety and Health from 2004-2011.

Kerri S. Welch, MS

Kerri Welch, MS with Distinction, Early Childhood Education, Mercy College, New York, NY; BA Elementary Education, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY. Kerri is a Child Care CDA trainer and consultant, along with a child advocate for children's safety, health, and nutrition. 

Early childhood expert with 18 years of childcare and management experience, specializing in Child Development Associate training, Developmentally Appropriate Practice, Positive Guidance, Creative and HighScope Curriculum. Dedicated to training current and future childcare workers. Skilled with online and digital learning systems.
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