Speakers: Capt. Jan C. Manwaring

Capt. Michael E. Herring

Presentation: Federal Perspective: CDC Response to Environmental Health Concerns from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

Capt. Jan Manwaring is an Environmental Health and Safety Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He has worked as an environmental health specialist since 1976 for several local health departments in Utah and Idaho. He joined the US Public Health Service as a commissioned officer in 1983, and began working for the Indian Health Service in Chinle, Arizona; CDC cruise ship inspection program in Miami, Florida; NIOSH in Morgantown, West Virginia; and then NIOSH in Anchorage Alaska where he is currently located. As a PHS officer he has deployed to lead environmental health teams in response to several national disasters, including 9/11 at the World Trade Center in New York, Hurricanes Charley, Francis, and Ivan in Florida, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans.

Capt. Michael Herring received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Health from East Carolina University in 1980 and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1993. Capt. Herring is a Registered Environmental Health Specialist with 26 years of professional experience in environmental health. He has been the recipient of numerous awards from various federal, state, regional and local agencies and professional organizations.

Capt. Herring currently serves as a Sr. Environmental Health Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta, Georgia. His duties in the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of NECH include efforts to revitalize the Nation’s environmental health services system and developing the environmental health workforce at state and local health departments through the United States. Capt. Herring has responded to public health emergencies and disasters through his career including serving as a CDC Environmental Health Team Leader for Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2995.