Community Advisory Panel

The following individuals, listed alphabetically, review the website regularly to help ensure that the material is as accurate and up-to-date as possible. The Environmental Health Houston Community Advisory Panel (EHH-CAP) consists of 14 individuals from the region who have expertise in one or more aspects of the website. EHH-CAP members serve staggered one-year terms.

Affiliations are noted for identification purposes only and do not imply endorsement of the website or the material presented on the website by the institutions or organizations represented.

  • Paul Newman, Director, Division of Pollution Control, Harris County Department of Public Health and Environmental Services  
  • Edward G. Brooks, MD, Associate Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston  
  • Daewon Byun, PhD, Director, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Modeling (IMAQM), University of Houston  
  • Michele Coakley, Associate Director, Health Initiatives, American Cancer Society  
  • Dana Easley, MUP, Research Associate, Mitchell Center for Sustainable Development, Houston Advanced Research Center  
  • Winifred J. Hamilton, PhD, SM, Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Neurosurgery, and Director, Environmental Health Section, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine  
  • Nicola A. Hanania, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Section, Baylor College of Medicine  
  • Son Hoang, Research Associate, Center for Research on Minority Health, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Vice-President, Vietnamese American Community Health Network (VACHNET)  
  • Jane L. Laping, MS, MPH, Executive Director, Mothers for Clean Air  
  • Peggy Rogers, PhD, MPH, Chief, Health Planning, Houston Department of Health and Human Services  
  • Lata Shinamé-Moré, PhD, Research Director, Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center  
  • Thomas H. Stock, PhD, CIH, Associate Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health  
  • Sherry S. Vinson, MD, MEd, Chief of Service, Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital  
  • Sabrina Strawn, Executive Director, Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention