Margaret Shield

Principal & Founder @Community Environmental Health Strategies Llc

Seattle, WA, US

http://cehstrategies.com/ Helping local governments, non-profit organizations, associations, and businesses address environmental and public health challenges and achieve sustainable solutions.• Accomplishing policy, systems, and environmental changes with a focus on equity and prevention.• Analyzing policies, laws, and regulations and putting them into context.• Exploring policy options, crafting policy solutions, and avoiding policy pitfalls.• Making connections with community partners and building effective coalitions.• Finding common ground solutions with stakeholders, while pushing for policies that best protect people and our environment. • Developing and implementing legislative initiatives.• Neutralizing opposition arguments and navigating the political environment. • Analyzing and framing issues.• Developing and communicating effective advocacy messages to diverse audiences, including elected officials, business leaders, the media, and the public.• Translating scientific and technical information clearly to diverse audiences. • Researching health and environmental impacts of products, product life cycle management solutions, and safer alternatives.• Extensive expertise in medicine take-back and pharmaceutical stewardship policies, regulation of e-cigarettes and vapor products, safer chemical policies, and product stewardship for sharps, fluorescent lights, batteries, and other household hazardous wastes.

University of Washington

PhD, Biochemistry

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

B.S., Biochemistry