Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation

Fellowship Year: 1997

Academic Background: UC Berkeley - MPHMPP

Current Position: Pollution Prevention Director , Center for Environmental Health

Sue Chiang is currently the Director of the Pollution Prevention Program at the Center for Environmental Health. Her main focus at CEH is on promoting extended producer responsibility policies and implementing environmentally preferable purchasing with respect to electronics and its intersection with the healthcare sector. She is an active member of both the Computer TakeBack Campaign and the international campaign, Health Care Without Harm. Sue has worked with a wide range of organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally over the last 13 years including Environmental Defense, the San Francisco Foundation and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. She served on the steering committee of the Alliance for Safe Alternatives: Eliminating Persistent Toxic Chemicals (formerly known as the National Stop Dioxin Exposure campaign). In addition, Sue was the program coordinator of the California Urban Environmental Research & Education Center (CUEREC), a statewide university-based center whose primary purpose is the coordination and support of applied environmental research at the grassroots level. During her four years at the Environmental Defense Fund, she researched community right-to-know issues, investigated Proposition 65 cases and conducted grassroots outreach for EDF's Chemical Scorecard. Sue received a B.A. degree in environmental science from Barnard College, Columbia University and completed a double-masters program at U.C. Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and the Graduate School of Public Health.

Expertise: Environmental & Public Health, Environmental Justice