Board of Directors

Albert Tien, PhD President

Dr. Albert J. Tien has over 30 years of experience within the USA and internationally dealing with Sustainable Development and Business Risk Management. Presently he is the Managing Partner of the international consultancy, 2TSustainAbility, holds various leadership positions and is a Past President of Workplace Health Without Borders-US, and OHTA Advisory Board Co-Chair. Dr. Tien served as the Chair for the SIEF for Portland Cement under REACH. He has studied environmental and occupational health issues ranging from the source and spread of enteric bacteria such as Yersinia enterocolitica; IAQ issues caused by adhesives, paint chemicals and fungi; RCS in construction and building materials, long-term exposure to Portland cement dust; and developed/patented/evaluated technologies to treat hazardous and infectious wastes. Additionally, Dr. Tien provides EHS and Sustainable Development auditing/consulting services for large corporations and Developmental Financial institutions. He has developed and taught courses in Global Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Sustainable Development, Alternative Fuels and Raw Materials, Environmental Regulations and Mine Safety. Dr. Tien holds a BS in Biological Chemistry from The Tulane University, MS in Life Sciences from New Mexico Highlands University, and PhD in Environmental Biotechnology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. His Post-doctoral studies were with the Oakridge Institute for Science and Engineering, and Business studies at St. Gallen University and the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jake Ward, MBA, MPH, CIH, CSPD
Vice President

Jake Ward has over 25 years of experience as an EHS professional and is currently a Principal Industrial Hygienist in the Global Industrial Hygiene group at Amazon. Jake completed his pre-professional biology/chemistry studies at Indiana University. He followed undergraduate work with a Master of Public Health (Environmental Health/Industrial Hygiene) and a Master of Business Administration in International Business, both at the University of South Carolina. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Certified Safety Professional and has worked for OSHA and in the petrochemical, steel, and rail industries. He serves on the AIHA International Affairs Committee, Emerging Economies Microgrants Advisory Group, OHTA Board of Directors, and is a member of WHWB. He speaks some Portuguese, and has basic knowledge of German and Spanish.

Tuan Nguyen, MBA, CIH, CSP, ARM, FAIHA President Emeritus

Tuan has over thirty years of experience as an industrial hygiene and safety consultant. He also worked at the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory at the University of California Irvine where he helped coordinate and conducted research in air pollution inhalation toxicology. He had co-authored several scientific publications on air pollution, and nail salon chemical exposure research studies. Tuan had coordinated and participated in international conferences as well as the signing of Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) between various institutes in the United States and Vietnam. Tuan currently serves as the AIHA Ambassador to Vietnam, BCSP Ambassador, a roster candidate of the Fulbright Specialist Program, a member of the Steering Committee of the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative.  Tuan co-founded the Vietnamese Industrial Hygiene Association (VIHA), and currently serves as a member of the board of director.  He is a Member Association Director of the International Occupational Health Association (IOHA).

Bert Schiller, CIH
Treasurer

Bert is currently the principal consultant for Bert Schiller & Associates, Inc. based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Prior to this, he worked for Michigan OSHA for 5 years and for Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company for 12 years both in Michigan and California. He attended the University of Michigan where he received a BSE in Industrial Engineering. He is also an adjunct instructor at U-M for their graduate program in Industrial Hygiene.

Cheryl Schiller
Assistant Treasurer & Assistant Secretary

Cheryl is Vice President and an environmental and occupational safety and health consultant for Bert Schiller & Associates, Inc. based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She is a past part-owner and operator of an environmental and industrial hygiene laboratory located in Novi, Michigan and has over 20 years experience in assessment of workplace hazards and in conducting chemical and physical exposure monitoring and testing. It is her work with and for numerous volunteer organizations that led to an interest in assisting in the development of new non-profit organizations. She has served as Assistant to the Secretary for WHWB-US and as a liaison to Non-Profit Enterprise at Work (NEW), Ann Arbor. NEW provides developing non-profits with practical and strategic advice for moving their mission and governance forward.

Hien Thi Thu Ngo, MSc, PhD.
Secretary

Dr. Hien T. T. Ngo currently works as a lecturer, public health researcher at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Thang Long University, Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Her current research focuses on children’s environmental health, heavy metal exposure, e-waste, occupational - environmental health risk assessment and management, mental health, and occupational-environmental health communication and promotion. From 2015 to 2022, Dr. Hien is the PI and co-PI of 11 research projects; published 15 scientific articles (07 international and 08 national articles); organized 05 training programs and participated in 03 international short courses on ecosystem health, monitoring working environment; joined as an invited speaker at 07 international and 06 national conferences; and co-taught at Hokkaido Summer Institute 2022, Sapporo, Japan entitled "Environmental Health and Sustainable Development Goals Ⅰ and II".

Mary O’Reilly, PhD, CIH, CPE, FAIHA
Liason to WHWB International Past President, Founding Member

Mary has served on the boards of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH), the ANSI Z10 committee and chaired the AIHA Risk Assessment and Ergonomics Committees. She is a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and is currently teaching, consulting and is the president of the Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB) international branch and past president of WHWB-US.

Audrey Cunningham, MS, PE, CSP, CIH
Board Member

Initially an engineer, Audrey started her occupational health and safety career at IBM where she led an IBM Global Industrial Hygiene Technical Advisory Committee tasked with developing Global IBM Health and Safety Standards. She retired from IBM and went on to manage EH&S for a Kaiser Permanente Hospital. She is currently retired and enjoys traveling, family, skiing, rock music, and visiting Paris.

Eugene Satrun, CIH, CSP, FAIHA
Board Member

Eugene has over 43 years’ experience in Industrial Hygiene including work in South and Central America, Saudi Arabia, Africa, and Europe in addition to the US. He has served as mentor to IHs in many locations around the globe. He is currently a consultant with Satrun OHS Consulting LLC. After 30 years he retired from ExxonMobil where he was Industrial Hygiene Coordinator for ExxonMobil Joliet & Billings Refineries. Prior to that he spent 11 years with OSHA including roles as supervisor and Region V technical support. He is Past Chair of the AIHA Construction Committee and the AIHA Incident Preparedness & Response Working Group, Past President of AIHA and ASSE Chicago area local sections. He is a volunteer with the Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team, He served as Assistant Chief for the Will County HazMat team, part of the local Emergency Management Agency. He is the webmaster for the WHWB-US website.

David Goldsmith, PhD, MSPH
President Emeritus

Dr. Goldsmith is an Occupational and Environmental Epidemiologist Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University. He has over 30 years’ experience in occupational, environmental, and public health.

Corey Bender, CIH, CSP
Board Member

Bio coming soon!

Pete Engelbert, CIH, CSP
Board Member

Bio coming soon!