Community Health and Environmental Research Initiatives

Register For HEI's Annual Conference 2025

Sunday, May 4 - Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at the Austin Marriott Downtown Hotel in Austin, Texas.

HEI has established an Advisory Council and a Research Committee, to advance HEI's Community Health and Environmental Research Initiatives work. Council and Committee members have expertise in environmental justice, environmental health, community engagement, and air pollution monitoring or modeling, among other areas of expertise.

Advisory Council
The Advisory Council is a multisectoral group comprised of representatives from academia, community groups, non-governmental organizations, and policymaking. The Council:

Provides strategic advice in establishing CHERI’s research program by identifying highest priority topics and programs where HEI can most effectively reduce environmental inequities.

Identifies approaches to ensure that the program achieves its mission.

Advises HEI on integrating equitable and just research and community engagement practices into its other programs, policies, and activities.

The Council meets regularly to discuss the direction of the program, principles for engagement, research solicitation format and language, and ongoing needs in the EJ community.

Maria Harris Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund

Mychal Johnson Co-Founder, South Bronx Unite

Yukyan Lam Research Director and Senior Scientist, Tishman Center at the New School

Beto Lugo Martinez Executive Director, RISE4EJ

Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Elizabeth Scheehle Research Division Chief, California Air Resources Board

Sherri White-Williamson Executive Director, Environmental Justice Community Action Network

CHERI Research Committee
This Committee is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.

Jayajit Chakraborty Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Racial Environmental Justice at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara

Christina H. Fuller Associate Professor, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia College of Engineering

Melissa Gonzales Chair and Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Madeleine Scammell Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Noelle Eckley Selin Professor, Institute for Data, Systems and Society and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Neeta Thakur Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Linda Valeri Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University

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Community Health and Environmental Research Initiatives: Our Team

CHERI Research Committee
This Committee is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.

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Community Health and Environmental Research Initiatives: Our Team

CHERI Research Committee This Committee is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.

CHERI Research Committee
This Committee is comprised of representatives from academia and functions similarly to the HEI Research Committee; it develops requests for proposals, recommends studies and programs for funding, and provides oversight and feedback while studies are ongoing.