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Brenda Afzal, R.N., M.S.

Brenda Afzal is Director of Health Programs at the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland School of Nursing where she is responsible for several initiatives including environmental health education and advocacy and leadership development. Ms. Afzal works simultaneously at the local, state, and federal level in developing nurses’ capacity to effectively engage in the emerging area of environmental health. Her leadership is evident in the Maryland State Nurses’ Association where, as an elected officer, she helped developed an Environmental Health Task Force, creating a model that she is helping other states to follow. She has helped to develop an effective network of state and national environmental and nursing organizations that have been successfully engaging on common ground issues related to health and the environment. Her advocacy work has been recognized nationally and is currently supported by the Beldon Fund.

Within the School of Nursing she has taken leadership in several important educational and practice activities. In addition to teaching environmental health classes at the undergraduate and graduate level and publishing in nursing journals, and frequently speaks at national nursing and environmental health conferences. Ms. Afzal has effectively employed her environmental health expertise concerning drinking water issues while participating on national advisory committees to the National Safe Drinking Water Advisory Council to the U.S. EPA. Professionally, Ms Afzal is active in both the American Nurses’ Association and the American Public Health Association. Ms Afzal is a Registered Nurse with a Masters Degree in Community/Public Health Nursing.

7/27/2007