University of Maryland School of Nursing
Environmental Health Education Center
655 West Lombard Street
Baltimore
MDUSA
21201
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Barbara Sattler has been working in the fields of occupational and environmental health for almost 30 years with experience in the non-profit/advocacy world and currently in an academic position for 20 years. She directs the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing which hosts the only graduate program for nurses that focuses explicitly on environmental health. She is currently helping to integrate environmental health into nursing curriculum around the country. She has served on Institute of Medicine committees on environmental health information, on the Maryland State Environmental Justice Commission, and is currently serving on the Children’s Health Protection Policy Advisory Committee to the US EPA and the CDC Conversations on Chemical Policies. Dr. Sattler helped to found the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, a national consortium of individual nurses and nursing organizations which is addressing education, practice, research, and policy/advocacy issues associated with environmental health. She is a Registered Nurse with a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurses.