Faculty of the International Program

Norbert Wagner MD PhD

Norbert Wagner is a medical doctor with board certifications in occupational medicine, aviation medicine and emergency medicine in Germany. He worked as a company doctor for biomedical companies, public entities and research institutions in Germany. From 2002 until 2006, he taught in academic programs using distance education tools at Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai/India, a WHO Collaborating Center in Occupational Health. He developed and directed the Certificate Program in Occupational Health, a blended course for company doctors. He earned his PhD from the University of Hamburg, Germany in epidemiology and occupational medicine in 2005.

He is an active consultant and OSHAS 18001 auditor in occupational safety and health management for enterprises around the world, mostly for oil & gas industries. He also consults for development agencies in integrating environmental and occupational health into development assistance projects. His work takes him regularly to Asia and into French-speaking Africa.

He is currently Research Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa (click here for his faculty website) and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work and publications focuses on implementing OSH programs under conditions of poor-resource countries, quality control in occupational health and corporate social responsibility.

Dr. Wagner is the program director of the International Program in Occupational Health Practice.

Danielle C. Landis, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Danielle C. Landis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of South Florida College of Public Health. Her primary role is as Deputy Director of the Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice, which includes the Florida Center for Public Health Practice (FCPHP), a CDC-funded public health emergency and disaster preparedness training center. Dr. Landis has worked with the Center since 2001 and currently serves as Deputy Director, overseeing training of the Florida public health workforce in the areas of Crisis Leadership, Epidemiologic Surge Capacity and Disaster Behavioral Health. Dr. Landis also serves as the Co-Director of the Public Health Leadership Institute of Florida (PHLIF), an annual leadership development program that provides leadership education, training and development opportunities to public health workers throughout the state of Florida. Dr. Landis has been active in the area of international public health, providing in country public health systems consultation and leadership, evaluation, and social marketing training to institutions and agencies in Central Asia, the former Soviet Republic Caucuses of Eastern Europe, India and Latin America.

Timo Juhani Leino MD PhD

Timo Leino, D. Med. Sci, is an occupational physician and a senior lecturer in occupational health at the University of Helsinki. He works in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), a WHO Collaborating Center in Occupational Health, since 1991, and serves currently as its chief medical officer. He has also worked in the ILO and is presently involved in many WHO, EU and Baltic Sea region projects and consultations. He is currently a manager of the occupational health services activity area of the WHO Collaborating Centres and a board member of the ICOH. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers and is an author or contributor in several text books and guides in his field of expertise. His main research and teaching interests are quality and effectiveness of occupational health systems, good occupational health practice, health promotion, and ICT-based education.

Ralf Steinberg, PhD

Ralf Steinberg is a Certified Safety Engineer with a PhD in Safety Engineering from the University of Wuppertal, Germany. He is currently a member of the International Committee of ACGIH, American Conference of Governmental IndustrialHygienist, and board member of DGAH, the German Occupational Hygiene Association.

He is a practicing safety engineer and industrial hygienist who has held HSE and management positions in various industries, e.g. DURA Automotive, Max-Planck-Institute of Coal Research, and consulting firms in Germany. Within the framework of German development cooperation (GTZ), he taught industrial hygiene, safety and ergonomics in the masters’ program “Industrial Hygiene & Safety” at the Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai/India, A WHO Collaborating Center, from 2003 to 2007. He continued working as a consultant for companies and development agencies in chemical safety. At present, Dr. Steinberg holds the position of Corporate Health & Safety Manager of E.ON AG, Corporate Responsibility Department. E.ON AG is one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies.

His focal areas of expertise are OSH management and management systems, risk assessment, chemical management and bio-aerosols.

David M. Zalk, MPH, CIH

David Zalk is a Past President of the International Occupational Hygiene Association and currently serves as their envoy to the WHO and ILO. Leading numerous national and international committees over the last two decades, he is currently the Vice President of the Foundation for Occupational Health and Safety.

David is recognized worldwide as an expert on Control Banding and qualitative risk assessment strategies and is a PhD candidate at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. David is the EHS Lead at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Site 300 experimental test site, an award-winning industrial hygienist, and remains actively involved in research and development within the greater occupational health and safety sciences. Authoring numerous journal articles and book chapters, his research includes: nanomaterial sciences, metals capture and analysis, biological and toxicological decontamination agents, occupational biomechanics, and the development of occupational risk management and health and safety management systems.