Board of Directors
Dr. Janis Shandro
Dr. Janis Shandro is a community health and safety practitioner and a trusted advisor and consultant to various international institutions and organizations, governments, private sector companies and Indigenous communities. For almost 20 years, she has had direct project experience in over 30 countries with a focus on identifying and managing social, health and safety risks associated with large-scale development projects, incidents and emergency scenarios. She has dedicated the last decade of her career to supporting a variety of health-related projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr. Shandro holds a co-disciplinary PhD in Mining Engineering and Population Health from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Dr. Genandrialine L. Peralta
Dr. Peralta has been active in environmental engineering, environmental health and climate change issues for more than four decades. She is one of the pioneers in the development and promotion of environmental and health impact assessment guidelines, policies and practice in Asia and Pacific. She has worked in various sectors (energy, water, health, and education) in more than 30 countries in government, academe, NGO, international agencies and multilateral financing institutions in environmental safeguards, environmental/health impact assessments of development projects, climate change impacts and climate resilience and adaptation, as well as management of chemicals, waste, drinking water and air quality.
She started her career with the National Environmental Protection Council for 10 years (now Environmental Management Bureau), then moved to the academe at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, staying for 20 years as full professor, chair of the chemical engineering department, coordinator of the Environmental Engineering Graduate Program and regional coordinator of the ASEAN University Network for environmental engineering. In 2007, she was conferred the Gawad Chanselor Natatanging Guro (Outstanding Professor), the first awardee from the engineering faculty at UPD. She then worked as the regional adviser on environmental health hazards at the Western Pacific Regional Office of the World Health Organization before shifting to international development at the Asian Development Bank as senior safeguards specialist (environment) until her retirement in 2015. She continues to work as a consultant at WHO, ADB, World Bank and other institutions on education for climate action, community health and safety and risk assessment.
Gene graduated Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering at St. Louis University, Baguio City and completed the Master of Science in Environmental Engineering at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. At the University of Toronto, Canada, she obtained a Master of Applied Science and a PhD in Environmental Engineering.
Dr. Lynn Crisanta R. Panganiban, MD
Dr. Lynn Crisanta R. Panganiban is a medical doctor specializing in family medicine, pharmacology, and clinical toxicology. She is a retired Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of the Philippines-College of Medicine and a retired clinical toxicology consultant at the National Poison Management and Control Center of the Philippine General Hospital. She was the president of the Philippine Society of Clinical & Occupational Toxicology from 2016 to 2019.
Lynn finished her Doctor of Medicine degree and residency at the University of the Philippines with additional training in clinical toxicology, health care evaluation and management skills (University of Toronto), occupational health and safety (University of Minnesota School of Public Health). She has published in peer-reviewed journals and wrote and co-authored 21 textbooks and manuals, notably the “black book” in toxicology entitled Algorithms of Common Poisonings. Since 1991, she has delivered numerous lectures locally and internationally on pharmacology, toxicology, medication safety, risk assessment, and poisoning prevention and management.
She continues to serve as technical consultant to government agencies, international agencies (World Health Organization) and nongovernment organizations (Pure Earth and Ecowaste Coalition) in pharmacology and toxicology. She is an attending clinical toxicologist at two hospitals: The Medical City-Ortigas and Adventist Medical Center Manila.