Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA

Director of Environmental and Occupational Health
Migrant Clinicians Network
5210 River Circle
Quantico, MD
USA 21856

Biographical Sketch: Ms. Liebman has devoted her professional career to improving the environmental and occupational health of disenfranchised populations. As Director of Environmental and Occupational Health at Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), she has established a nationally recognized initiative to reduce risks associated with environmental and occupational hazards by improving clinical knowledge/practice and community outreach/education. With over 5,000 constituents, MCN is the oldest and largest clinical network for the mobile underserved. Ms. Liebman has been a national leader in bringing culturally appropriate approaches such as promotores de salud (lay health workers) to environmental and occupational health efforts in order to educate vulnerable communities about pesticides and ways to reduce their risks from pesticide exposure. MCN and Ms. Liebman received the EPA Regional Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award for their innovate programs to help farmworker families minimize exposures to environmental hazards. Ms. Liebman serves on the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (Federal Advisory Committee to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs). Prior to her current position, she was the Director of Outreach and Policy for the Center for Environmental Resource Management in El Paso, Texas, where she directed several programs on both sides of the US-Mexico Border. Her most noted program was Agua Para Beber or Water to Drink, a community-based hygiene education program that reached thousands of families living without water. It was the first program to successfully utilize the promotera de salud model in a community-based environmental health initiative in the United States. Ms. Liebman has authored articles, bilingual training manuals and other educational materials dealing with environmental/occupational health and migrants. Ms. Liebman has a Master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Arts from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Papers:
3059.0 Sustaining a risk reduction and safety practices intervention model: A randomized control study Examining the effects of transferring the community health worker model to an occupational agricultural setting 3059.0 An earthquake in the midwest: OSHA enforcement reveals faults in the world of agricultural safety 3059.0 A local perspective on a global challenge: Health and safety perceptions and practices of immigrant workers in Wisconsin's dairy industry