Dominique Clark is a Project Manager for Solutions.  She has over 11 years of experience in management, housing, and human service, including developing and managing grant funded, direct-service programs. Before joining Solutions, she served as Director of Programs for the Coppin Heights Community Development Corporation (CHCDC), a subsidiary of Coppin State University, where she provided leadership and staff supervision for planning, developing and managing private, local, state, and federally funded grant programs.  She served as the project manager or key staff on all CHCDC grants, including U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Community Development Block Grants. Many of the grant deliverables included workshop facilitation and one-day conferences.  She has coordinated large general public-style community events and conferences as well as small workshop-style events. This included negotiating venue and vendor contracts, managing event budgets, securing speakers (including elected officials), and handling and resolving logistical or programmatic issues that arise during the coordination and execution of events. Before entering the nonprofit field, Ms. Clark was a Licensed Mortgage Loan Originator, and Property Manager for 10 years.  With over eight years of experience managing real estate portfolios with as many as 2400 pre-1978 rental units, she has extensive knowledge of lead safe work practices and laws and regulations pertaining to lead hazards and disclosure. Ms. Clark is currently a Certified Homeownership Counselor and Certified Loss Mitigation Specialist.  She is a candidate for a Bachelor of Science in Business (May 2011) from the University of Phoenix.

Joanna Gaitens is an Analyst at Solutions. She obtained her PhD in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where she designed an epidemiologic study and analyzed data to examine the relationship between an environmental contaminant (PCBs) and neurobehavioral function in a population-based sample. Dr. Gaitens was a full-time employee at Solutions prior to leaving in the fall of 2008.  Dr. Gaitens serves as a part-time employee for Solutions. She was the first and second author, respectively, on the two recent papers on the HUD-funded analysis of NHANES dust lead and blood lead data published in Environmental Health Perspectives. She has significant experience with analysis of complex technical data, review of scientific literature, outreach, education and validating survey results.

Gabriel Lai is a Junior Epidemiologist/Program Manager at Solutions. He obtained his PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he performed statistical analyses of epidemiologic data, conducted literature reviews, contributed to facilitation of research studies via interviews and data collection, assisted and performed research to develop protocols and forms, and composed grants, manuscripts, and presentations. In 2008, he served as a consultant to Westat, performing data abstraction and article reviews for a technical report. Mr. Lai holds a Masters Degree in Epidemiology as well as a certificate in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Gordon McKay, a Senior Project Manager with Solutions, was the National Director of the HUD HOME Program from 1994 to 1997, and the Regional Director for Community Planning and Development at HUD’s San Francisco Office from 1984 to 1994. He has performed on-site programmatic assessments, personally assisted 27 HUD Lead Hazard Control grantees, and managed a technical assistance project that served a total of 50 grantees. He trained approximately 700 state and local housing and community development staff on incorporating the Federal Lead-Safe Housing Rule into rehabilitation, acquisition, and rental assistance programs. Mr. McKay has also worked with Delaware and Georgia on the development of their strategic lead poisoning elimination plans and provided technical support on lead poisoning prevention strategic planning for the City of Flint, Michigan on behalf of the Michigan Department of Community Health. Mr. McKay researched and wrote several case studies for primary prevention that are included in the recent CDC-funded Building Blocks for Primary Prevention. He also assisted in revising a number of chapters in the EPA certification training courses for Paint Inspector, Risk Assessor, and Abatement Supervisors on behalf of ICF Consulting, Inc. Mr. McKay has a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts from Linfield College.

Amy Murphy, a Senior Project Manager with Solutions, has over 20 years of public health experience at the local, state and national level. For 15 years, Ms. Murphy provided leadership for the City of Milwaukee Health Department’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Healthy Homes Program as the Division Manager of Environmental Health Programs. In this capacity, she was responsible for securing over $50 million dollars in grant funding and for managing a multidisciplinary team of more than 40 professionals. Ms. Murphy has significant experience in community needs assessment, program design, planning for implementation, quality control and assurance, partnership development, community capacity building, and evaluation. Ms. Murphy has served in an advisory capacity for multiple local, state, and national committees. Most notably, Ms. Murphy served on the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and co-chaired the Primary Prevention Work Group, which developed national guidelines on the eradication of childhood lead poisoning. Ms. Murphy has a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Illinois.

Rick Nevin is a Senior Project Manager/ Industrial Economist with Solutions.  He has over 30 years experience conducting financial, economic, housing, and environmental analyses.  Mr. Nevin has a combined 22 years of experience serving as Assistant Vice President and Project Manager for Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ICF Consulting of Fairfax, Virginia. Over the last four years, He has worked as an independent consultant.  His policy, regulatory, and research experience includes the following: project manager and principal author of the Economic Analysis of the HUD rule on lead paint hazard evaluation and reduction in federally assisted housing. Mr. Nevin developed original methodology to estimate costs and benefits per housing unit for specific types of hazard evaluation and reduction activities, and designed spreadsheet model to calculate and present regulatory costs and benefits by HUD program and age of housing unit. He designed and wrote technical appendix to proposed Federal Strategy for Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning for the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children. Mr. Nevin also developed a model to forecast housing units with lead hazards and number of children with elevated blood lead through 2020, integrating data from several housing and health surveys. He managed a strategic analysis and program evaluation for the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) initiative led by HUD; specific issues addressed included potential benefits of coordinated strategies for HUD lead hazard reduction efforts, EPA Energy Star Homes, and DOE weatherization assistance. Additionally, Mr. Nevin particapated in several peer-reviewed studies on how trends in lead exposure have affected trends in crime and education, and how a lead-safe window replacement strategy can leverage funding for neighborhood stabilization, home energy efficiency, and lead hazard reduction to achieve multiple benefits with shared costs. Mr. Nevin holds a Masters in Finance, Managerial Economics, and Strategy from Northwestern University and a Masters in Economics and Bachelors in Economics and Mathematics from Boston University.

Michelle Nusum, the President/CEO of Solutions, was most recently the Executive Director for Coppin Heights Community Development Corporation (CHCDC), a subsidiary of the Coppin State University Development Foundation. With nearly 15 years of management, marketing, and community development/community relations experience, she was responsible for the administration, fundraising, strategic planning, and management of the organization’s programs and initiatives.  She secured over $1,000,000 to support the then defunct organization, including support from the City of Baltimore in the form of Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support a host of programs and services including financial literacy, homeownership counseling, and the rehabilitation and development of homes for first-time homebuyers. Ms. Nusum has extensive experience in working to eliminate childhood lead poisoning. Prior to joining CHCDC, she held several increasingly responsible positions with the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning. There she was responsible for statewide community outreach and education. While working for the Coalition, she served as Coordinator for the Maryland Lead Poisoning Prevention Partnership. Additionally, Ms. Nusum also served as the Lead Coordinator of Maryland’s National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week events in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005 and served on the Governor’s Commission on Lead Poisoning Prevention Health Subcommittee from 2003 to 2006. Ms. Nusum graduated with honors from Coppin State University with a Bachelor of Management Science 2004. She is a candidate for a dual Masters in Environmental Management and Masters in Business Administration at University of Maryland University College.

Richard Tobin, a Senior Project Manager with Solutions, previously served as the Director of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP) at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. He has 37 years of experience with childhood lead poisoning, including 17 years as director of Philadelphia’s full service, multidisciplinary program. Mr. Tobin was responsible for all aspects of childhood lead poisoning, including outreach, screening, case management, data analysis and evaluation, enforcement, laboratory analysis of blood lead and environmental samples, and grants management. He also was responsible for writing and submitting over $30 million in competitive grant applications from CDC, HUD, EPA and private funding sources. Mr. Tobin and his team successfully competed for HUD Lead Hazard Control, Operation LEAP, and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration grants while Director of Philadelphia’s CLPPP. Mr. Tobin is working on a HUD Task Order to “Provide Outreach Services to Potential Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Applicants” on behalf of OHHLHC, including presenting information about the grant program as part of a national webcast and at five regional meetings across the country. He is also providing technical assistance on behalf of the CDC Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch to the State of Michigan regarding childhood lead poisoning case management.  Mr. Tobin has a Master of Public Administration from Temple University and a Master of Science in Environmental Health from West Chester University.

Anne Guthrie Wengrovitz, a Senior Project Manager with Solutions, has over 20 years of experience in health policy analysis and program review, including over 12 years in childhood lead poisoning prevention. She was formerly the Deputy Director of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning in Washington, DC. Recent work products have included a white paper analyzing the implications of HIPAA on public health agency use of lead poisoning data, a report analyzing state Medicaid program performance of lead screening, and an article on strategies to improve lead screening and treatment for Medicaid enrollees that was published in Clearinghouse Review, a journal on poverty law. Ms. Wengrovitz has also researched and written case studies of innovative strategies for primary prevention for the recent CDC-funded publication, Building Blocks for Primary Prevention. She served as an appointed member of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention (ACCLPP) from 1998 through 2003, and as a liaison member through 2006. She is currently serving as Solutions’ Project Manager and overseeing the development of curricula and training materials for CDC’s National Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center, a five-day comprehensive lead training program for CDC-funded state and local staff of Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs. Ms. Wengrovitz has a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia.