David Michaels, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington DC. He served as US Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health from 2009 to January 2017, the longest-serving administrator in OSHA’s history. He was also a member of the Biden Haris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. During the Clinton Administration, Dr. Michaels served as US Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health, charged with protecting the workers, community, and environment around the nation’s nuclear weapons facilities. In that position, he was the chief architect of the historic initiative to compensate nuclear weapons workers who were sickened by radiation, beryllium, and other toxic exposures.

Lisa Patel received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. After college, she worked in Egypt, Brazil, and India on international development projects with community-based organizations and non-profits, focusing on conservation and development efforts. She then obtained her Master's in Environmental Sciences from the Yale School of the Environment and went on to be a Presidential Management Fellow for the Environmental Protection Agency, coordinating the US Government's efforts on clean air and safe drinking water projects in South Asia in collaboration with the World Health Organization. Realizing the critical and inextricable links between children's health and environmental issues, she obtained her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and completed her residency in pediatrics at UCSF. For the last several years, she has used her extensive experience working for government, community organizations, and non-profits to advocate for children's health priorities in the US. She was previously the co-chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics Advocacy Committee, California Chapter 1 (AAP-CA1) and in her time helped launch the inaugural Advocating for Children Together conference for Northern California that is now a yearly occurrence. She co-founded the Climate and Health task force for AAP-CA1, and sits on the Executive Committee for the AAP's national Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change. She is formerly the rotation director for the pediatric resident's Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy Rotation. She is currently the Executive Director for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and maintains a clinical practice as a pediatric hospitalist caring for newborns, premature infants, and children requiring hospitalization. She also sits on the Board of Our Children's Trust, the legal organization that represented youth in Held v. Montana.

Her work has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times, the LA Times, Bloomberg News, and multiple state and local outlets. She is interviewed regularly for her expertise on climate, health, and equity for major national media outlets like the Washington Post, US News and World Report, CNN, among others.

Dr. Sohini Stone, MD, MBA, leads the Global Employee Health team at Google, focused on cross-company strategy to provide an integrated portfolio of equitable, evidence-based programs and services to promote health and well-being of Google’s workforce, their family members, and the community around them. The team focuses across the spectrum of physical, mental and social health.

Dr. Stone has a background in quality, patient safety, and process improvement, and sits on the board of Health Care Without Harm. Prior to joining Google, she led clinical, quality, and business analytics teams at a late-stage Silicon Valley health start-up.

Sohini received both her Medical Degree and Masters in Business Administration from Boston University. She completed a pediatrics residency at Dartmouth Medical School and a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at Stanford/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Elizabeth Lien, Senior Director for Federal Climate Policy and Subnational Programs at WWF, has nearly 20 years of development, climate finance and environmental policy experience. Elizabeth leads on WWF’s Federal climate policy and manages the WWF team that oversees the America Is All In coalition, the largest coalition of subnational climate leaders ever assembled in the United States. Prior to joining WWF, Elizabeth spent 17 years in the U.S. Government, twelve of which were at the Treasury Department working on international climate finance, development policy and macroeconomics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Elizabeth has a Master’s of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a Master’s in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Political Science and Journalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.