Curriculum

BERENICE ISABEL FERRARI GOELZER

• Civil Engineer by the Federal University of RGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil) 1962

• Master in Public Health (Industrial Health) by the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) 1964

Main positions (from 1964):

• Professor at the University of RGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil (1964-1969)

• Responsible for Occupational Hygiene at SESI-RGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

• Chief of Occupational Hygiene at FUNDACENTRO (Brazilian National Foundation for Occupational Safety and Health), São Paulo, Brazil (1970-1972)

• Visiting professor at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo, Brazil (1970-1972)

• Researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA (1973-1974)

• Scientist, responsible for Occupational Hygiene at the international level, in the World Health Organization, Geneva (for 25 years; 1974-2000)

• Former editor of the Newsletter of the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) 11 years

• Presently: occupational hygiene consultant.

Awards Received:

• The William P. Yant Award (from the American Industrial Hygiene Association, USA) in Washington, D.C., 1996

  • Yant Award Lecture: The Harmonized Development of Occupational Hygiene - a Need in Developing Countries�

• The Lifetime Achievement Award (from the International Occupational Hygiene Association - IOHA), in Bergen, Norway, 2002

  • Life Achievement Award Lecture (English): The Making of the Occupational Hygienist

  • Life Achievement Award Lecture (em português, publicada na revista da ABHO): "Fazendo" Higienistas Ocupacionais

• The Jeffrey S. Lee Lectureship Award, AIHCE 2004, Atlanta

  • Lecture “A Realistic Approach to Occupational Hygiene”

• Homenagem da Associação Brasileira de Higiena Ocupacional, 2011

Member of the following professional associations:

• Associação Brasileira de Higienistas Ocupacionais (ABHO), Brazil

• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), USA, (belonged to two scientific committees)

• British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), UK

Previous member of the following professional associations:

• American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), USA, for 40 years

• Société Suisse d'Hygiéne du Travail, Switzerland, also founding member

• International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA adviser for 6 years, IOHA Board Member for 3 years and editor of the IOHA Newsletter for 11 years)

• American Academy of Industrial Hygiene, USA (for the 40 years during which was CIH “Certified Industrial Hygienist”)

• Asociación Mexicana de Higiene Industrial (AMHI), Mexico