Board of Directors
Dr. Janis Shandro
Dr. Janis Shandro
Executive Director and Chair
Dr. Janis Shandro is a community health and safety practitioner and a trusted advisor and consultant to various international finance 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
Gene 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 health impact assessment guidelines, policies, and practices globally. She has worked in various sectors (energy, water, health, and education) in more than 30 countries in government, academe, NGO, international agencies, and multilateral development banks in the areas of environmental safeguards, environmental/health impact assessments of development projects, climate change vulnerability assessment, adaptation and resilience as well as management of chemicals, waste, drinking water and air quality. She finished a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from St Louis University (Baguio City, Philippines), an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, a Master of Applied Science, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Helen Brown
Dr Helen Brown is an independent Health and Environment consultant with expertise in the discipline areas of public, environmental, and occupational health. As an academic with over 20 years of experience, Helen is an accomplished researcher and teacher, specializing in Health Impact Assessment, systems thinking, and interactions between climate and health. Recent highlights include the harmonization of curricula for HIA in universities across the upper Mekong Region, the development of climate and health training programs in Lao PDR, vulnerability and adaptation assessments in Malaysia, and supporting the implementation of HIA legislation in the Philippines through the Training of Trainers. Helen was the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Impact Assessment at Curtin University from 2014 to 2021 and is the lead author of the Australian national HIA guidelines. Her passion now lies in creating partnerships in the Asia Pacific Region to nurture opportunities that promote healthy, sustainable, and climate-resilient
development.