Work, School, and Training in the Environmental Health Field: A Lifelong Relationship

Editor's Note: In an effort to provide environmental health professionals with relevant information and tools to further the profession, their careers, and themselves, NEHA has teamed up with the American Academy of Sanitarians (AAS) to publish two columns a year in the Journal. AAS is an organization that "elevates the standards, improves the practice, advances the professional proficiency, and promotes the highest levels of ethical conduct among professional sanitarians in every field of environmental health." Membership with AAS is based upon meeting certain high standards and criteria, and AAS members represent a prestigious list of environmental health professionals from across the country. Through the column, information from different AAS members who are subject matter expects with knowledge and experience in a multitude of environmental health topics will be presented to the Journal's readership. This column strengthens the ties between both associations in the shared purposes of furthering and enhancing the environmental health profession. Jennifer Dobson is the environmental health services manager at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel, Alaska. She became a diplomate of AAS in 2019. Jill Shugart is a senior environmental health specialist and program coordinator for the Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Atlanta, Georgia. She became a diplomate of AAS in 2019. Katie Bante is an environmental health officer currently transitioning from the U.S. Coast Guard to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. She recently applied to become a diplomate of AAS.