Speaker Biographies

Captain Alvin Chun, USPHS, Senior Policy Advisor

With over 25 years in the EPA working with many agencies, industries, and communities, he has a wealth of technical, management, and communication experiences to share. Last year Captain Chun was invited to do workshops for the Swiss Government and U.S. Department of Agriculture working on Mad Cow Disease and by the Australian Government and industries working on environmental problems affecting nearby communities. Doctors of the People’s Republic of China’s Health Department in Hong Kong working on disease outbreaks also sought Captain Chun’s expertise. Captain Chun is a lecturer on risk communication and public participation at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, the U.C. Berkeley Extension Program, the University of Adelaide in Australia, and an adjunct professor at the U.S. Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps Officers School. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University with degrees in engineering.

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