Jack Anderson is President/CEO of Healthy Housing Solutions. From the company’s inception in November 2003 through October 2008, he directed nine projects awarded to Solutions under its first five-year US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Task Order contract to provide Policy and Regulatory Support to the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, including the evaluation of HUD’s Healthy Homes Grant Program. He also was responsible for all technical and logistical support for the 2008 National Healthy Homes Conference, which was held in Baltimore, Maryland, attended by over 1,400 people, and co-sponsored by HUD, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Additionally, he directed Solutions’ contract with GovWorks to develop and manage CDC’s five-day National Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center, beginning in 2005. Over the course of his career, Mr. Anderson has directed projects to develop lead poisoning strategic elimination plans for Rhode Island, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the cities of Detroit, Flint, Hamtramck, Highland Park and Kalamazoo, Michigan on behalf of the Michigan Department of Community Health. He also completed work on revising a number of chapters in the EPA certification training courses for Paint Inspector, Risk Assessor and Abatement Contractor/Supervisor.
From November 2008 through March 2010, Mr. Anderson was Vice President of CONNOR Institute, a national environmental training firm offering the EPA Certified Renovator course and other lead-related training. Mr. Anderson spearheaded the marketing of CONNOR Institute’s training services, prepared accreditation applications for submission to EPA, and oversaw a staff of Principal Instructors. From March 2010 through October 2010, he served as a Principal Instructor for CONNOR Institute and delivered the EPA Certified Renovator course 86 times to approximately 1,200 students.
Mr. Anderson rejoined Solutions in December 2010 as its President/CEO. He is currently directing HUD task orders to develop the Healthy Homes Program Guidance Manual and revise a series of healthy homes background papers. He is also directing CDC task orders for the National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network, the National Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center, and the Green Housing Study, a prospective study to be conducted in Boston and Cincinnati.
As a senior staff member of Solutions’ parent, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), from 1993 to 2003, Mr. Anderson managed a number of HUD-funded large multi-disciplinary projects, including the nationwide training of over 15,000 students on lead-safe work practices and lead certification disciplines, and the delivery of programmatic training in 37 cities to over 1,800 individuals on implementation of the Federal Lead-Safe Housing Rule. He also managed a project to prepare draft revisions of key chapters in the HUD Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing. More recently, as a consultant to NCHH in 2010, he developed an 88-page draft guidance manual for the New York State Department of Health on methods to access housing units to perform lead-based paint inspections and primary prevention services.
Prior to joining NCHH in 1993, Mr. Anderson worked for 15-plus years in the property and casualty insurance industry where he specialized in environmental liability insurance. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gettysburg College and also attained the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) professional insurance designation.
Noreen Beatley is a Senior Project Manager with Healthy Housing Solutions. She has worked on sustainable community issues such as green building, workforce development, energy efficiency, affordable housing and community economic development for 15 years. As a policy and program consultant, she worked with a range of clients, including nonprofits to government agencies. Her work included helping develop strategies to promote sustainable community practices and policies. Ms. Beatley has researched and written green building and energy efficiency primers for national funders, case studies on the benefits of green healthy housing, policy briefs on greening workforce development, and helped design the structure of a regional green and energy efficient retrofit program for affordable housing. She was the Director of State and Local Policy for Enterprise Community Partners, where she engaged legislators and community development organizations in policy development and advocacy. She directed a grants program to assist local nonprofit partners’ pursuit of policy objectives. She also developed a variety of trainings to help build nonprofit coalitions and advocacy important to sustainable community development policy and practices. Prior to joining Enterprise, Ms. Beatley worked for a nonprofit housing developer in Austin, TX where she managed housing preservation, property development, acquisition, and funding projects, and in the investments field. Ms. Beatley holds a Masters degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Urban Development and Political Science from the University of Rhode Island.
Carlotta Joyner is a Senior Project Manager/Analyst with Healthy Housing Solutions. She is also a private consultant who provides research and program evaluation services for education, employment, health, and human service programs. Dr. Joyner has conducted technical support for the National Center for Healthy Housing’s (NCHH) evaluation of New York State’s Lead Primary Prevention Program since November 2008. Services for other clients have included analyzing and summarizing research on international education and foreign language programs, and designing and carrying out evaluations of a nationwide, multi-site, federally-funded employment program for youth offenders and youth at risk of court involvement, a state-wide technology professional development program for teachers, and a local voter education project. From March 1980 through October 2001, Dr. Joyner was with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, DC. At GAO, she was an executive who provided leadership in support of decision-makers within both parties in Congress, managed complex, multidisciplinary research and evaluation studies, and taught program evaluation methodology. Her 150-plus publications cover public health and occupational safety and health programs; health and human services programs; elementary and secondary education programs and funding; financial aid and access to higher education; workforce development programs and labor laws; and management, performance, and accountability in federal programs. Dr. Joyner has a PhD and Master of Science degree in Social Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University as well as a Master of Arts degree from George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.
Carol Kawecki is a Senior Project Manager/Analyst at Healthy Housing Solutions. She has nearly 30 years experience in program evaluation, research (in accordance with Internal Review Board [IRB] standards), curriculum development, data analysis, questionnaire design, statistical analysis, regulatory analysis, and technical assistance. This includes more than 20 years of experience working in environmental policy and program evaluation, and over ten years applying this experience in the public health domain.
Ms. Kawecki has designed, implemented, analyzed and presented survey research findings in the fields of environmental health and housing, environmental policy, substance abuse, land use management, and the administration of federal block grants. Her recent experience managing research projects includes: 1) Management of an asthma research grant-funded home visiting program serving 250 Baltimore children with moderate to severe asthma. Her responsibilities included identification and implementation of evidence-based asthma medical and environmental triggers management, training and supervision of teams of community health workers and public health nurses, redesign of work processes, budget management, evaluation of performance outcomes. This project included smoking cessation referrals, motivational interviewing to support residents’ efforts to stop tobacco use, and work with area multi-unit public housing operators to institute smoke-free policies in their units; and 2) Team Member for home assessments in two healthy homes projects, with responsibilities for design of questionnaires and trainings used during home visits, preparation of IRB submissions, recruitment of residents for interviews, and conduct of pre-post interviews, visual assessments, and environmental sampling. The MUH operators in these projects adopted smoke-free common areas as part of their treatments, and residents were provided with smoking cessation referrals as part of their home visits.
Her experience managing multi-site projects includes: 1) Project Manager for technical assistance under the New York State Department of Health’s Primary Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning: Pilot Project. This three-year project evaluated the effectiveness of fourteen counties’ efforts to promote housing-based primary prevention, including lessons learned and model practices the State could transfer to other counties. Responsibilities include management of a technical assistance and evaluation team, design and implementation of a quarterly reporting system, conference planning, presentations to public officials, and preparation of a yearly formative and outcome evaluation; and 2) Project Manager for a two-year HUD-funded pilot program in two Upstate New York cities to address environmental health and safety hazards in home-based child care. Her responsibilities included financial and administrative oversight, publicity, development of implementation guides for replication, lead-safe work practice training, management of a multi-site team, leveraging of funds to replicate the program in two additional cities, development of a national partnership board to support future replication, and presentations at national meetings. This project received EPA’s Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award in 2006.
Ms. Kawecki has also has extensive experience in the preparation of toolkits and guidance documents for implementation of best practices, including for the two New York State Programs noted above, and oversight of the 2006 Designing and Administering Lead Hazard Control Programs: Lessons Learned Update. She is one of the contributing authors/writers of the HUD Healthy Homes Program Guidance Manual and is the editor/writer of the HUD Healthy Homes Initiative background paper on Asthma. Her responsibilities in these projects included literature reviews, interviews with key stakeholders, preparation of case studies, identification of evidence-based best practices, and manuscript preparation. She has also provided technical assistance on behalf of the CDC to five state and local childhood lead poisoning prevention programs in strategic planning, redesign of case management work processes, and housing-based primary prevention. She has a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Maryland, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College.
Patricia Magnuson is a Senior Project Manager with Healthy Housing Solutions. She is a community development professional with extensive experience creating asset building programs that have a positive impact on community sustainability. She has worked extensively with foundations and corporate funders, managing grant making for community-based initiatives. Ms. Magnuson was previously employed by Enterprise Community Partners for 19 years where she served, variously, as the Senior Director of Vulnerable Populations, Senior Director of the National Supportive Housing Program, Director of the National Child Care Program, and Director of Community Services and Planning in New York City. She has a Master in Fine Arts degree from Hunter College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota.
Gordon McKay is a Senior Project Manager with Solutions. He 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.
Johanna “Jo” Miller is a Senior Project Manager/Grant Writer for Solutions. She has over 15 years experience in grant writing, project development and management, and environmental health funding, education and advocacy and achieved over $50,000,000 dollars in funding awards. Throughout her career, Ms. Miller has worked to develop winning, comprehensive grant proposals and projects, particularly those related to children’s environmental health, healthy homes, and lead hazard control. Her experience in working with to eliminate childhood lead poisoning began in 1998 when she served as a Project Coordinator for City of Minneapolis Children’s Environmental Health program under HUD’s first round of Lead Hazard Control funding. While with the City of Minneapolis, Ms. Miller worked diligently to develop and implement community solutions and resources for families and children through collaborative efforts with nonprofit and government agencies. From 2003 through 2004 she served as the Director of Policy and Program Development with a non-profit, Sustainable Resources Center, and was responsible for the development of programs and policies, identification of grant opportunities, obtaining funding, and evaluating innovative solutions, policies, and initiatives on both national and local levels. In 2004, she established J. Miller and Associates, a grant writing consulting firm, again with a focus on Children’s Environmental Health. In 2009 Ms. Miller joined Solutions. Ms. Miller serves on the board of the National Lead and Environmental Hazard Association and held the position of Board President (2007-2009). She has also served on numerous other regional and community- based committees and panels, including the Minnesota State Asthma Advisory Committee-Environmental Working group, State Strategic Planning Committees to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning, HUD Advisory Panels for Title X, 1012-1013 and 1018, MN State Lead Statute and Rules Panel. She has been recognized for her work in Children’s Environmental Health with an Excellence Award from the Council for Excellence in Government, a Governor’s Award, and a National Lead Star Award.
Amy Murphy is a Senior Project Manager with Solutions. She 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.
Richard Svenson is a Senior Project Manager with Healthy Housing Solutions. He is a Professional Engineer with experience in water and wastewater facility design and operation and related regulations, environmental health program administration and evaluation, code writing and research (especially environmental health and housing codes), and training. Mr. Svenson is also qualified to perform evaluations of existing environmental health/housing programs to determine needed improvements/efficiencies, to assist in the implementation of a new environmental health program/activities, and to develop new standards/codes and related tools to implement a new code or standard. He was employed by the New York State Department of Health for 28 years where he served as Director of the Division of Environmental Health Protection and Director of the Bureau of Community Sanitation and Food Protection. Prior to joining the state Department of Health, he worked for 10 years for the Albany County Health Department in Environmental Services. Mr. Svenson has a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the State University of New York at Albany and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Tufts University.
Laura Titus is a Research Assistant at Healthy Housing Solutions (Solutions). She has over 14 years of experience in field research support, having overseen data management for nine research studies. She has extensive experience in coordinating training sessions throughout the country. Ms. Titus is the Project Coordinator for Solutions' CDC-funded grant for the Healthy Homes/National Lead Poisoning Prevention Training Center. In that capacity, she is in charge of all logistical arrangements for the trainings, including sending out packets of information via email to all state level CLPPP program contacts; ordering supplies; preparing training manuals; shipping training supplies to the training the facilities; and attending the trainings. Ms. Titus is currently serving as the Project Coordinator for Solutions' CDC-funded National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network. She is in charge of contacting the training partners; ordering supplies; and organizing and shipping materials to training facilities nationwide. Ms. Titus developed the National Center for Healthy Housing’s (NCHH) E-newsletter, and implemented an email newsletter campaign. She is the Webmaster for both Solutions' and NCHH’s websites and has experience encompassing a wide range of software and applications in the office technology field. Ms. Titus has an Associate in Applied Science degree from Howard Community College in Columbia, MD.
Richard Tobin is a Senior Project Manager with Solutions. He 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.
Sarah Wylie is an Analyst with Healthy Housing Solutions. She completed her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Washington, School of Public Health in early June 2011. Her capstone project was measuring community mobilization as a component of institutionalizing comprehensive sexuality education. As a graduate intern at the Seattle and King County, Washington Public Health Department, Ms. Wylie compiled legislative reviews and best practices relevant to proposed injury prevention legislation. She also developed communications and educational materials on suicide prevention, traffic safety, and the built environment. Ms. Wylie previously worked as a research assistant at Children’s Hospital in Boston where she conducted qualitative and quantitative social epidemiology research on sexual orientation, substance use, disordered eating behaviors, sexual health, and access to health services. She adapted and piloted a novel web-based social service screening and referral tool for use in an adolescent health clinic, and was a teaching assistant for biostatistics and qualitative research methods for medical fellows. Ms. Wylie also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Carleton College.