HCWH Staff

• United States
• Europe
• Southeast Asia
• Latin America

United States

• Gary Cohen is a founder, President, and Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, the international campaign for environmentally responsible healthcare. He is also the Executive Director of the Environmental Health Fund, which works on domestic and global chemical safety issues. Gary is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic and Documentation Center in Bhopal, India, which provides free medical care to the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal. He was awarded the Skoll Global Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006 and the Frank Hatch Award for Enlightened Public Service Award in 2007.

Europe

• Anja Leetz, Executive Director of HCWH Europe, created and coordinated "Chemical Reaction" — a Brussels-based joint project between the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) and Greenpeace. The project's goal was to get the European public involved in the development of REACH. After Chemical Reaction, Anja worked as Head of Fundraising for FoEE and was appointed as Board Treasurer for HCWH Europe. In 2008, she stepped down from the Board to take the position of Executive Director. Before being involved in environmental issues, Anja also worked as a teacher and photographer.

Southeast Asia

• Merci Ferrer, Executive Director of HCWH Southeast Asia, worked for more than a decade as an organizer and advocate for Indigenous Peoples rights to their ancestral lands and self determination in the Philippines. She has also worked as co-director of Philippine Development Forum (PDF) a US-Philippine initiated organization that gave information on US corporate investments' impacts on the Philippine environment. And she has served as a Program Officer for Initiatives for International Dialogue's program in Burma. She is a former board member of Amnesty International Philippine section. Merci is a social scientist who graduated from the University of the East, Manila with a background in Sociology.

Latin America

• Veronica Odriozola, Executive Director of HCWH Latin America, has worked for nearly twenty years on environmental health issues, doing research, promoting policy changes, campaigning and organizing communities that face pollution problems. She worked for the international environmental organization Greenpeace from 1990 to 2005. She is a founding member of the Argentinean Anti-Incineration Coalition and, between 1994 and 2005, she ran the Toxics Campaign of Greenpeace Argentina. Ms. Odriozola is a Biological Sciences graduate of the University of Buenos Aires and has trained in environmental health and environmental epidemiology in Argentina and in the United States.