Speaker: Tom Neltner, JD, CHMM

Presentation: Healthy Homes: The Essentials, The Players, and The Potential

Tom Neltner is the Director of Training and Education at the National Center for Healthy Housing in Columbia, Maryland. He joined the Center in August 2005. His primary responsibility is the National Healthy Homes Training Center and Clearinghouse. He currently serves as a member of the National Pollution Prevention and Toxics Advisory Committee and co-chair of its Broader Issues Workgroup. He is also a member of Sierra Club’s Toxics Committee and Legal Chair of the Club’s Hoosier Chapter. Until moving to Washington DC, he was also chair of the Concerned Clergy’s Environmental Committee.

Before joining NCHH, Mr. Neltner was the executive director of the Improving Kids’ Environmental. IKE is a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to children’s environmental health issues, including lead poisoning prevention, air toxics, healthy homes, and urban sewage. He started IKE in 1999 after six years with the Indiana Department of Environment as the Assistant Commissioner for the agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Technical Assistance.

Mr. Neltner is an attorney and a chemical engineer. From 1993 to 2004, he was an adjunct professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He also co-founded three non-profits – Improving Kids’ Environment, Indiana Recycling Coalition, and the Environmental Management Institute, which is Indiana’s largest health, safety and environmental training firm. Mr. Neltner also worked for Eli Lilly and Company in insulin manufacturing and corporate environmental affairs.