Jackie Chan received her B.A. in Zoology at UCB, and her MPH from UCLA. She has worked as an industrial hygienist for 32 years. In addition to doing lead work in her 15 years with CDPH OHB, she has also worked on the topics of workplace violence, ergonomics, asthma, infectious disease, injuries, and work-related fatalities. Her previous jobs include the San Francisco Department of Public Health, various unions, Michigan State University, and Stanford University. She recently became the Chief of the Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.

Susan Eckhardt is a Senior Safety Engineer in Cal/OSHA’s Research and Standards Health Unit. She has over 30 years of experience in occupational health and safety, starting her career as an industrial hygienist at Hewlett-Packard (now HP) in Santa Clara, CA. Susan then joined Cal/OSHA, doing field enforcement work first as an industrial hygienist, and later as a safety engineer. She conducted over 700 on-site inspections during her time with Cal/OSHA Enforcement, investigating chemical and noise exposures, construction accidents, and much more. In 2016, Susan joined the Cal/OSHA Research and Standards Health Unit, where she has coordinated efforts to revise Cal/OSHA’s occupational lead standards.

Susan holds a BS degree in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and an MPH in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley, with an emphasis in Industrial Hygiene. She is certified by the Board for Global EHS Credentialing (BGC; formerly American Board of Industrial Hygiene) in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial Hygiene.

Max Weintraub is chief of the new Renovation Section in the California Department of Public Health Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch. From 2021 until earlier this year he was chief of the Lead Hazard Reduction Section in the Branch. He previously worked at the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, National Lead Information Center, and the US EPA where he was the technical expert in an enforcement case against Home Depot for lead-based paint Renovation, Repair, and Painting rule violations that resulted in a $20 million settlement. Max has been a lecturer at San Francisco State University, UC Davis, and UC Berkeley instructing courses on environmental justice and governance in California. He studied at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan and now lives with his wife and daughter in Albany, CA.