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Our next dinner meeting will be held virtually on September 21, 2021, beginning at 6:00 PM. The meeting will start with acknowledgements, announcements, and local section business followed by technical presentations by the speakers listed below. We will provide an opportunity for open mic after the presentation.

Please join us to learn about some of the initiatives going on with the Developing World Outreach Initiative (DWOI). This initiative was formed to address the lack of adequate industrial hygiene resources for workers and workplace health and safety professionals in developing countries.

This event will include a *fundraising* element. Please help us raise money for this worthy cause if you are able! Even a dollar can make a difference! Donations are optional, and can be made before, during, or after the meeting; payments through Venmo will be accepted to @New-Ways-To-Work-295 

Speakers and Presentation Titles:

Roberto M. Álvarez del Blanco: “Hope Initiative Covid-19 in Latin America”

Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH, FAIHA: “Update on the OHS Initiative for Workers and Community in Dhaka, Bangladesh”

Perry Gottesfeld, MPH: “Reducing Lead Exposures Among Self-employed Miners in Nigeria: Results of a Pilot Intervention”

Speaker Bios:

Roberto M. Álvarez del Blanco Is one of the main authorities in marketing and brand strategy. He has been profesor at IE Business School in Madrid; visiting profesor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley; Stern School of Business of the New York University and Rockefeller University in New York. Professor Álvarez del Blanco has been recognized for academic excellency twelve times, has been awarded three international recognitions for his research contribution and dissemination of the marketing scientific discipline; his contributions include more than 150 publications, and 13 books that have been translated to several languages.

His education includes and Executive Program at Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley; Doctorate in Economic Sciences from the University of Barcelona; MBA from ESADE Business School and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Buenos Aires.

Roberto Álvarez del Blanco has been a columnist and occasional collaborator for business newspapers. His work has been presented in media like The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Expansion, Cinco Dias, as well as CNN, TVE, Televisa, RNE among others.

He founded Spain’s first brand strategy consulting firm and has been an academic and scientific collaborator of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Additionally, he led the refurbishment of a historical building, and site, in the Port of Barcelona, that changed the waterfront of the city, and was the promotion coordinator of the Olympic Office Barcelona 92 for the Summer Olympic Games of the XXV Olimpyad.

Garrett Brown is the Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network, and has organized projects with grassroots worker organizations in Mexico, Central America, Indonesia, China and Bangladesh since 1993. He is a retired field compliance officer and Headquarters staff member for Cal/OSHA, and is now a Continuing Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

Perry Gottesfeld is the Executive Director of Occupational Knowledge International (OK International), a nonprofit organization. He founded OK International in 1999 to build capacity to address environmental and occupational health in low and middle-income countries. In 2014 he received the Social Responsibility Award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Perry has published more than 20 articles in the peer-reviewed literature on a wide range of environmental and occupational health topics.

Meeting Information:

We have designed the evening to have one cumulative hour of technical content (equivalent to 0.17 CM point for ABIH Diplomates).

Zoom login information will be sent upon registration.

We hope to "see" you there!  Feel free to enjoy your favorite meal or beverage during the meeting.

The AIHA-NCS Executive Committee will meet via the same Zoom meeting from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm to conduct local section business. Interested parties are encouraged and welcome to attend.

Tickets

$20.00 Member Ticket
$35.00 Non-Member Ticket
$0.00 Student Member