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Letter to CDC Director Robert Redfield and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci We, the undersigned, are writing to demand that the Centers for Disease Control retract its “Interim Guidance for Implementing Safety Practices for Critical Infrastructure Workers Who May have Had Exposure to a Person with Suspected of Confirmed COVID-19”, issued on April 8. The guidance advises that “…critical infrastructure workers may be permitted to continue work following potential exposure to COVID-19, provided they remain asymptomatic and additional precautions are implemented to protect them and the community.” The CDC list of critical infrastructure workers includes janitors, housekeeping workers, workers in food and agriculture, critical manufacturing, information technology, transportation, energy, and government facilities. The guidance makes the unfounded assumption that employers have the ability and will to systematically monitor and establish contagion prevention measures. Yet, there are currently no federal mandates for any employer to provide protection to workers: OSHA has decided not to conduct enforcement related to COVID-19 hazards in the workplace. Permitting exposed workers to be in close contact with others contradicts the CDC’s overall guidance, requiring that anyone exposed to an individual with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 self-quarantine for 14 days. The guidance threatens the health and safety of essential workers and the public, especially blue collar workers, and it undermines national and state efforts to flatten the COVID-19 curve. The significant risk of transmission from asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals is well established. Workers in food processing, agriculture, janitorial, and many other critical industries are disproportionately workers of color, who are underpaid and already at increased risk of serious complications if they become infected with coronavirus. Recent news reports document the disproportionate incidence of COVID-19 in communities and populations of color, largely due to inequality in income, wealth, health services, and internet and information access. The CDC guidance will deepen the health inequalities that are being worsened by COVID-19. What’s needed instead are critical safety and health protections, guaranteed paid sick leave for all workers in these sectors, a presumption that infection occurred at work so that the workers are eligible for workers’ compensation protections and benefits, and epidemiological surveillance of workplace incidence of COVID-19 infection. We demand that the CDC retract this guidance and establish priority measures that protect the economy by protecting workers rather than corporations. We cannot risk creating a new surge of infections in an effort that clearly is aimed to present the illusion that the pandemic is over and everything is back to normal. It is not. In fact, we need to strengthen protections for all essential workers immediately to protect both workers and the general public.

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Page 1: Letter to CDC Director Robert Redfield and National …...2020/04/14  · Antwan Jones Associate Professor The George Washington University Beth Rosenberg Prof. Tufts University School

Letter to CDC Director Robert Redfield and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci

We, the undersigned, are writing to demand that the Centers for Disease Control retract its “Interim Guidance for Implementing Safety Practices for Critical Infrastructure Workers Who May have Had Exposure to a Person with Suspected of Confirmed COVID-19”, issued on April 8.

The guidance advises that “…critical infrastructure workers may be permitted to continue work following potential exposure to COVID-19, provided they remain asymptomatic and additional precautions are implemented to protect them and the community.” The CDC list of critical infrastructure workers includes janitors, housekeeping workers, workers in food and agriculture, critical manufacturing, information technology, transportation, energy, and government facilities.

The guidance makes the unfounded assumption that employers have the ability and will to systematically monitor and establish contagion prevention measures. Yet, there are currently no federal mandates for any employer to provide protection to workers: OSHA has decided not to conduct enforcement related to COVID-19 hazards in the workplace.

Permitting exposed workers to be in close contact with others contradicts the CDC’s overall guidance, requiring that anyone exposed to an individual with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 self-quarantine for 14 days. The guidance threatens the health and safety of essential workers and the public, especially blue collar workers, and it undermines national and state efforts to flatten the COVID-19 curve.

The significant risk of transmission from asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals is well established. Workers in food processing, agriculture, janitorial, and many other critical industries are disproportionately workers of color, who are underpaid and already at increased risk of serious complications if they become infected with coronavirus. Recent news reports document the disproportionate incidence of COVID-19 in communities and populations of color, largely due to inequality in income, wealth, health services, and internet and information access. The CDC guidance will deepen the health inequalities that are being worsened by COVID-19.

What’s needed instead are critical safety and health protections, guaranteed paid sick leave for all workers in these sectors, a presumption that infection occurred at work so that the workers are eligible for workers’ compensation protections and benefits, and epidemiological surveillance of workplace incidence of COVID-19 infection.

We demand that the CDC retract this guidance and establish priority measures that protect the economy by protecting workers rather than corporations. We cannot risk creating a new surge of infections in an effort that clearly is aimed to present the illusion that the pandemic is over and everything is back to normal. It is not. In fact, we need to strengthen protections for all essential workers immediately to protect both workers and the general public.

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Name Title Organization (*Organization listed for affiliation purposes only)

Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Jessica Martinez Co-Executive Directors National COSH

A Better Balance Addiction Connections Resource African American Health Alliance

Allan Fisher SF Labor Council delegate AFT 2121 Alianza Nacional de Campesinas

Dr. Jan R. Ateood Nurse Scientist and NP(ret), FAAN, Public Health Nurse American Academy of Nursing

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Randi Weingarten President American Federation of Teachers Luis Amado Executive Director Amigos de Seattle

Brandon Fifer President Anchorge Municipal Employees Association APHA

Dr. Cheryl Kovar APHA*

Linda Reinstein President & Co-Founder Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization

James Seale-Collazo President, Río Piedras chapter Asociación Puertorriqueña deProfesores Universitarios

Catherine Sharp Association of Professional Flight Attendants National Health Chair

Association of Professional Flight Attendants

Bellia Peckson National Injury on Duty Chair Association of Professional Flight Attendants Atrisco Land Grant

Sherry Baron, MD, MPH Professor Occupational and Environmental Health

Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, City University of New York*

Lawrence Rose M.D. M.D., M.P.H. Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility

Lovette Kargbo Thompson Atlanta Lead Organizer Black Alliance for Just Immigration Esmeralda Huerta Labor Organizer Brandworkers Rick Sprout Chair Broome Tioga Green Party Dr. Paul Zeitz Founder Build A Movement 2020 Hannah Connor, Center for Biological Diversity Senior Attorney Center for Biological Diversity

Center for Economic Integrity Center for Economic Integrity Center for Progressive Reform Center for Progressive Reform

Rafael Morataya Executive Director Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa Center for Workers' Rights

Central Florida Jobs with Justice

Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

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Policy Director Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos Centro Laboral de Graton Executive Director Centro Laboral de Graton veronica lagunas co founder centro ya basta! Centro Ya Basta! USWW

Susan Avila RN MPH Lecturer UIC School of Public Health CHE Cook County

Chronic Illness and Disability Leaders Silvia Hernández Worker Center Coordinator CLEAN Carwash Campaign Coalition of Labor Union Women

Coalition for Restaurant Safety & Health

Collingswood Borough Democratic Committee

Li ann (Estrella) A Sanchez CEO /ED Commumity EsTr(El/La)

Communications Workers of America (CWA)

Community Health Worker Coalition for Migrants and Refugees

Avery W. Grant, P.E. Executive Director Concerned Citizens Coalition of Long Branch

Jeffrey Janusonis ConnectiCOSH

Michael C. Fitts Executive Director Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health

Anne Katten Pesticide and Work Safety Project Director CRLA Foundation *

Jeff Hyman Occupational Safety and Health Specialist CSEA

Joshua Kemp, SMS Occupational Safety and Health Specialist CSEA

Jean Grassman Associate Professor CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy*

CWA District 1 - NJ CWA Local 1036 CWA-NJ

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)

Magalis Troncoso Lama Director Dominican Development Center/ domestic Workers Program

Susan E. Bell Professor of Sociology Drexel University* Jessica Stender Senior Counsel Equal Rights Advocates Ames Simmons Policy Director Equality North Carolina Faith in Public Life Hilda Palmer Facilitator Families Against Corporate Killers Antonio Tovar Executive Director Farmworker Association of Florida

Jeannie Economos Health and Safety Project Coordinator Farmworker Association of Florida

Daniana Trigoso-Kukulski Executive Director Fe y Justicia Worker Center Houston Futures Without Violence

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Garment Worker Center

Rosemary Sokas, MD, MOH Professor of Human Science and of Family Medicine Georgetown University*

Claire R. Cox President Georgia Women (And Those Who Stand With Us)

Michael Feinberg Rabbi Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition

Nancy Krieger, PhD Professor of Social Epidemiology

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health*

Glorian Sorensen Professor Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health*

Mathilda Regan Harvard University Steven Ridini President & CEO Health Resources in Action Claire L. Barnett, MBA Executive Director HEALTHY SCHOOLS NETWORK Marnie Dobson, Ph.D. Director Healthy Work Campaign Todd Jailer Managing Editor Hesperian Health Guides Lee Gloster IBT 364* Rob Kropiewnicki IBT 877 Frank Cyphers President ICWUC

Lula Odom Worker Trainer Development Coordinator ICWUC

Marina V. Secchitano President Inlandboatmen’s Union if the Pacific, Marine Div. ILWU

Ben Lilliston Interim Co-Director Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California Interfaith Worker Justice

Dr. Amber H Mitchell President / Executive Director International Safety Center Anna Woodbury Ironworkers Union* Arieh Lebowitz Executive Director Jewish Labor Committee

Joseph A. McCartin Exec. Director Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor

Richard Seckel Director Kentucky Equal Justice Center Tessa Hill President Kids for Saving Earth

Elizabeth Pellerito Director Labor Education Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell Labor Occupational Health Program

Yasin Khan Coordinator of Public Programs

Labor Occupational Health Program UC Berkeley

Diane Matthew Brown CIT Safety and health trainer/self employed Labor of Love Safety Training

Aixa Pascual Latin American Association Gilda Pedraza Executive Director Latino Community Fund (LCF Georgia) Michael Merrill Director LEARN*

Legal Aid at Work Legal Voice

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Garrett D. Brown, MPH, CIH Coordinator Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network

Richard Rabin Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health*

Jodi Sugerman-Brozan & Al Vega

Executive Director & Dir. of Policy & Programs

MassCOSH (MA Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health)

Jessica Ruglis Associate Professor McGill University * Mr.Mark Catlin Industrial Hygienist MDC Consulting and Training Bengt B. Arnetz, MD, PhD Professor, Department Chair Michigan State University Michelle Kaminski Associate Professor Michigan State University

Midstate Council for Occupational Safety and Health

Antonio Triana Youth Coordinator Midstate COSH

Amy Liebman Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Migrant Clinicians Network

Edward Zuroweste MD Founding Medical Director Migrant Clinicians Network*

Jaribu Hill Executive Director Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner Co-Founder and Executive Director MomsRising

Debra Ballinger Executive Director Monument Impact

Kimber Nicoletti-Martinez MESA Director Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault(MESA) NAACP

Sidney C. Gelb Public Policy Chair NAMI Newton Wellesley National Center for Law and Economic Justice National Center for Transgender Equality

Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Jessica Martinez Co-Executive Director National COSH

Judy Conti Government Affairs Director National Employment Law Project National Employment Lawyers Association

National Employment Lawyers Association National Farmers Union

National Farming Initiative Inc. Executive Director National Farming Initiative Inc. National Immigration Law Center

Rudy Arredondo President/CEO National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Associaation National Resources Defense Council

Larry Goldbetter President National Writers Union Sophie Ackoff Co-Executive Director National Young Farmers Coalition Nebraska Appleseed Nebraska Appleseed

New Jersey Citizen Action Possible Planet Executive Director New Jersey PACE

Craig Slatin Editor New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy

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Debra Coyle McFadden Executive Director NJ Work Environment Council

Emily Spieler Northeastern University School of Law*

Tiffany Joseph Associate Professor of Sociology Northeastern University*

NYS Public Employees Federation

Occupational Safety & Health Specialist NYS Public Employees Federation

Nella Pineda-Marcon RNBC NYSNA OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates

Dr. Ghazala Kazi Occupational Medicine

Kelly Campbell Executive Director Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

Suguet Lopez Executive Director Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas, Inc.

Judy Norsigian Board chair Our Bodies Ourselves Oxfam

Susan Butterfield President Passaic County Education Associations

Andrea Miller Executive Director People Demanding Action People's Action

Margaret Reeves Senior Scientist Pesticide Action Network Nicole Fuller Executive Director PHILAPOSH John Sanford Phillips 66

Robert M. Gould, MD President Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

Mary Ann Castle, Ph.D. Planning Alternatives for Change Fanelly Millan Pomona Economic Opportunity Center

Dr. Bill Honigman Progressive Democrats of America, CA State Coordinator Progressive Democrats of America*

Paul Gottlieb Staff Rep PSEA* Public Citizen

Steven Markowitz MD, DrPH Professor Queens College, City University of New York* Restaurant Opportunities Center DC

Scott P. Schneider M.S., C.I.H., FAIHA Retired Director of Occupational Safety and Health for the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America*

Rural Advancement Fund Executive Director Rural Advancement Fund of the National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc. Rural Coalition

Todd Vachon Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

Michele Ochsner, Ph.D. Professor Emerita Rutgers University Caroline A. Thompson, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Public Health San Diego State University

SEIU United Service Workers West Transport Workers union local 234 aflcio Gary wilkinson SEPTA Transit Philadelphia, PA

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Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (SMOHIT) Administrator Sheet Metal Occupational Health

Institute Trust (SMOHIT) Thomas R Konrad Senior Fellow Sheps Center for HSR. UNC-CH*

South Florida COSH South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health (SoCalCOSH)

Martha McCluskey Professor of Law, Emerita State University of New York at Buffalo (for affiliation only)

Gabriela Galicia Executive Director Street Level Health Project

John Philo Executive & Legal Director Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice

Miranda Alksnis TAA UW-Madison Harold Wilkes Jr. Mr. Teamsters Tanya Akel Field Director Teamsters 2010* Tanya Akel Field Director Teamsters Local 2010* Patty McCarthy IBT877 Shop Steward Teamsters Local 877 Teamsters Local 877 Recording Secretary Teamsters Local 877

Tina Katsanos Chair The Climate Reality Project, Charlotte Chapter

Antwan Jones Associate Professor The George Washington University Beth Rosenberg Prof. Tufts University School of Medicine TWU Local 591 Safety Coordinator TWU Local 591 Dr. Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond U.C. San Diego

Frances Tao UC Riverside School of Medicine* Veronica Ponce de Leon Health and Safety Educator UCLA LOSH

Annie Le, MD, MPH Resident Physician UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency*

Preethi Pratap Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

UIC School of Public Health *

Marsha Love UIC School of Public Health* Janet Newsham Chair UK National Hazards Campiagn

Union for Reform Judaism UNITE HERE International Union

Jackeline Agudelo Executive Director United Community Center of westchester, Inc.

Ufcw Local 360 Political Director, director of education

United foodcand commercial workers union local 360 United Mine Wokers of America

Beacon of Light Ministry Treasurer United People Community Organization United Steelworkers

Nancy Lessin United Steelworkers-Tony Mazzocchii Center (retired)

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T. Wright, MSPH Public Health Predoctoral Fellow University of California, Merced

Andrew M. Davis, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine University of Chicago*

Linda Forst Senior Associate Dean and Professor

University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Peter Orris, MD, MPH Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

University of Illinois School of Public Health

Dr. David H. Wegman Professor Emeritus University of Massachusetts Lowell Laura Punnett Professor University of Massachusetts Lowell* Martín Espada Professor of English University of Massachusetts* Kasim Ortiz PhD Student University of New Mexico Steven Hecker Associate Professor Emeritus University of Oregon* Maritza Stanchich, Ph.D. Professor of English University of Puerto Rico*

Sarah B. Andrea, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology University of Washington

Michael Childers Professor and Director University of Wisconsin School for Workers*

Carol Rice, PhD, CIH Professor Emerita Univesity of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Elizabeth Milos Medical Interpreter UPTE-CWA 9119 * Campbell Johnson Chair & CEO Urban Housing Alliance John “Scotty” MacNeill National Safety Director Utility workers union of America

Ellen G. Frank-Miller, PhD Senior Scientist & Adjunct Professor Washington University in St. Louis

Susan Reverby Professor Emerita Wellesley College* Dr. Mary D. Lagerwey, PhD, RN Director of School of Nursing Western Michigan University Bronson

School of Nursing

Western New York Council on Occupational Safety And Health

Western North Carolina Workers' Center

D. Mejia Wind of the Spirit, Immigrant Resource Center

Jim Schultz Recording Secretary WisCOSH, Inc. Jamie McConnell [email protected] Women's Voices for the Earth Worker Justice Center of New York Workers' Center of Central New York Stephen Knight Executive Director Worksafe

Jeffrey Hyman Occupational Safety and Health Specialist

* Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)

Paul Grubb * District 1199C, NUHHCE, AFSCME

Jeff Sanford local 877 recording secretary and Phillip 66 process operator

* international brotherhood of teamsters local 877

Nino Maida Chief Steward * Local-7 UPTE-CWA 9119, AFL-CIO

Jim Laing * Occupational health researcher, federally funded

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Janet Hill *Coalition of Labor Union Women, SWPA National Organization for Women

Rebecca Brossoit Doctoral Student *Colorado State University*

Veronica A. Moore Office Manager, Sr. Training Assistant *Cornell University ILR

Emilia Vignola Graduate research fellow *CUNY School of Public Health* (affiliation only)

Daniel Smith, BSN, RN Research Nurse *Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Erek Slater *Executive Board Member, Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 241

Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli Research Coordinator *Farmworker Association of Florida Deborah Ottenheimer, MD, FACOG *Harlem United

Emily Unger MD/PhD candidate *Harvard Medical School/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lorie S. Goshin, PhD, RN Associate Professor of Nursing *Hunter College, City University of New York

Jacky Jennings Associate Professor *Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Ms Susan Matthews *Michigan United, *1st UU Detroit

Keren Salim Attorney *New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc.

Diana Crowder Industrial Hygienist *Nj Work Environment Council

Paul Landsbergis *SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University School of Public Health

Sara Gia Trongone *TAA, AFT Local 3220

Glenn Shor Lecturer in Public Health *University of California Berkeley Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

Dr. Kathryn M. Barker *University of California San Diego

Patrice Sutton, MPH Research Scientist *University of California San Francisco Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment*

Dr. Mathieu Despard *University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Joan Lichterman *UPTE-CWA 9119

Carl Baum, MD Professor of Pediatrics and of Emergency Medicine Yale School of Medicine

A. Charles Annie Belt Daniel J Brustein MD, MSIH, FACOEM

Diana Florence Former Prosecutor specializing in health and safety

Cecelia Leto Project Director Matt London

Rick Engler Former Board Member, US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Elizabeth Friedman MD, MPH

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Letitia DAvis, ScD, EdM New York Habitat Dana Rosenberg R Dave Lippman Logan Rockefeller Harris COSH Marie Griffin MD MPH Dorothy Wigmore Occupational hygienist Deborah Passey, PhD Research Associate Esther Thatcher Registered Nurse Carol Berman Industrial Hygienist Alasia Ledford Registered Nurse Nora Renzulli Alain Jehlen John Nelson Courtenay Kessler Susan V. Coleman RN, MPH Joshua Munday FNP Elizabeth Spradley Mr. Gerald Fisher Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

Keshet Ronen Alan Cooper Louise Murray Nancy Goff Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH GS Magwood, PhD Kathryn Wouk Postdoctoral Research Fellow Candace Kugel Clinical Specialist Leslie Salmon-Zhu Professional Graphic Recorder Ruth Grubesic RN, DrPH Mary Chase-Ziolek, PhD, RN Professor Dr, Paula Rayman Kevin Riley Gie Garcia Safety Compliance Delbert M. Raymond III, RN, PhD

Marcel Reid ACORN8/Whistleblower Summit Eduardo Siqueira MD, MPH Amy Henry Caitlin Donato

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Dr. Thomas B Janter M.D. Mr. Jacob Picheny Elizabeth Donato Marisela Gomez MD PHD William Koehl Kiplin Kaldahl Graduate Student JWJ Earl Silbar Larry W. Riddle MPH, CSP, REP… Mr Gary W. Gaines Rael Slavensky RN, BA, MA, MPH, MSN Karen McMillan, MS, MCHES

Peg Tayler Associate Director Health & Safety

Stephanie Olszewski Nancy McGuckin RN Barbara Johnson Utica College Ellen M Smith, PhD, MPH, RN

Isabel Dickson Maternal and Child Health Consultant

Sean Reilly Jessica Wagner, MPH, BSN, RN Bill Kojola Industrial Hygienist Ms Meryl Becker

Cathy Tashiro Associate Professor Emerita, Nursing and Health Care Leadership

Desmond A Atem RN Bennet D. Zurofsky Attorney Kathleen Bean Caleb Headley Marianela Acuña Arreaza John Tynan Union Rep Nick Jehlen Kathleen Malkin RN, MS Sandy Barragan Risk Management Sally Ngo MPH student Trinity Smyth Eric Patel Patricia Sweeney, JD, MPH, RN Health Commissioner (Retired)

Deborah Wallace Ph.D. Joel Alvarez

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Rodrick Wallace Ph.D., epidemiologist David Wallinga, MD Physician Dr. Nina Wallerstein Public Health researcher Greg Geboski

Sam Friedman HIV/AIDS researcher and professor of Population Health Sam Friedman

Sebastian Bouknight Chicago workers collaborative Executive Director Robin Fink MPH Peter Tappeiner Rachel Reichlin Katie Murphy Dr. Sonda Oppewal Clinical Professor Maryani Palupy Rasidjan PhD

Roger Hayes retired Assistant Commissioner of Health NYCDOHMH

Roger Hayes

Youbin Kang Gwendolen Gibson Inese Verzemnieks PhD, RN, PHN Kretmar, Beatty, Sandza & Gregory

DAREN R. MEALER, MD, MPA, FAAFP Chief of Aerospace Medicine

Alice Herman Erica Chavez Santos Elise Pechter Julie Starobin Marie Fiori

Amy L. Slutzky Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Nayvin Gordon Inland Empire Labor Council, AFL-CIO

Karyn Pomerantz Denise Johnson Greater Syracuse Council for Occupational Safety abd Health Program Manager

Alberta Gibson Oklahoma Black Historical Research Project, Inc. Executive Director

Partnership for Peace and Transformative Impact

Joel Shufro

Patrick Landers Business Representative-Health and Safety Patrick Landers

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Mardge Cohen MD Nancy Gilbert RN MS PhD

Kathleen Blute Retired Social Worker & Public Health Educator

Lindsay Novacek DNP-PHNL, RN, CCHP Tasha McCaskill Long MSN, APRN Shalyn Julianna Brody-Fialkin Phoebe Miller MS / MD candidate Madeleine Kane medical student Dr. Victoria Hilkevitch Beth Britz Bertha Mo, Ph.D., MPH Larry Sapadin Mrs. Barbara Ida Chaya Gordon Carissa C. Nora Baynes Pamela B Natural Resources Defense Council

Rodney Ryks Union National Safety Representative ( Homel Chain )

Desiree LaGrappe Public Health Nurse Karuna Ramachandran Dr. Anna Valdez Dr. Rita Million Associate Professor Gene Hurd So Cal COSH Meg Buckwalter PHN Dr MK Dorsey Registered Voter

Diane Richter Wiscosh 1st Vice President Wiscosh

Mwangi RN SafeWork Washington Cheryl Anne Gorton, DNP, FNP-BC, APRN

JoAnne Olsen Mark B Watson Katie Balaram Joe Grosse David Kotelchuck Prof. Emeritus, Hunter College Laravic Flores Felipe Tendick-Matesanz Public Health Leader

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natalie saltiel Kimberly Mackesy Warzone Education Foundation Mike Griffin Christopher Perlera Paul McCullough Luis Amado Executive Director Wendy Pantoja Castillo Antrop. Jon Grossman Janet Pearson Ronald Pearson Dave Sanford

Ingrid Zubieta, MPH, CIH, CSP Occupational Safety and Health Professional Ingrid Zubieta, MPH, CIH, CSP

Theodora Tsongas, PhD, MS Environmental Health Scientist/Epidemiologist Theodora Tsongas, PhD, MS

Janine Clymer Justin Clymer Joe Kropiewnicki Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Service Employees International Union

(SEIU) Mick Sid Christine W. Saltzberg, PhD, MSHCE, MS, PHCNS-BC RN

Jessica Sanford Dr Richard W Gilpin LLC Ellen Resnik

Dr. Adriana Garriga-Lopez Associate Professor of Anthropology, Kalamazoo College

Dr. Adriana Garriga-Lopez

Tom Walker

Kim Cook Associate, Cornell Worker Institute

robert buckeye writer Dr. Katherine Miranda Kathy Gannett Activist Gillian Marie Goslinga Doctor Linda H Donahue Jennifer Roberts Former Mayor of Charlotte Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH Elise Pechter Bobby and Susi Nord Mike Cockerham Aircraft Technician Afsaneh Kalantary

Peg Seminario Safety and Health Director (retired)

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Alice Freund Industrial Hygienist, Biology Teacher

D. Gold Certified Industrial Hygienist Paula Brantner William P. O'Hearn Jaquelyn Jahn MPH Jeffrey L. Nesvet Nataly Morales Villa Nataly Morales Villa Dr. Darius Sivin Veronica Morales Ashley Conway Cassie Watters A. Charles Martín Espada Susan B Connolly Concerned Citizen Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice Clergy and Laity United for Economic

Justice Erin Henk Theresa Klenk RN.BC Gloria Bach Jon Grill Lisa Watson Katherine Lehmann Melora Rush N Palmstrom Mrs. Debbie Sanford Mr. John F Hall Dr. Darius Sivin Industrial Hygienist

Pamela Guthman Population health nursing practitioner and professor

Jesus Mata