LuAnn E. White is a Professor Emerita at Tulane University and a toxicologist having worked in environmental public health for over 40 years. She founded the Center for Applied Environmental Public Health and is the PI of the Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center. Dr White has been a leader in public health workforce development using online training to build capacity among public health and using training as a vehicle for the dissemination of research to practice.

Dr. Roy Rando is certified in the chemical aspects of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.  Dr. Rando has been a member of the faculty of Tulane University since 1987 and is currently vice chair, professor, and academic director of the ABET-accredited Industrial Hygiene Program in the Department of Global Environmental Health Science in the Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine.  He is also adjunct associate professor of environmental medicine in the Tulane Medical School. Dr.