Our development team is consisted of 8 motivated Industrial and Systems Engineering students from the Georgia Institute of Technology. We are a diverse group of students with unique backgrounds and experiences all united by the same vision: to improve the systems we work on and create a positive impact on the people we work with.
With our Extinguish Tool we hope to bring this vision to life.
From left to right: Sonia Tetlow (CDC client contact), Connor Owen, Jiali Zhao, Vishal Mummigatti, Diem "Dineise" Tran, Jose Rodriguez, Divya Vedula, Aaron Ahn, Kristie Choe, Corinne Graffunder (CDC client contact), Julie Swann (Georgia Tech faculty advisor).
Many people were involved in the creation of this tool. We would like to extend thanks to the following individuals for their help in making this project a reality:
CDC/ OSH
Corinne Graffunder, Sonia Tetlow, Allison MacNeil, Randi Frank, Simon McNabb, Pam Lemos, Ketra Rice, Brian Armour, Brian King, Diane Beistle, Rebecca Murphy, Nishika Vidanage, Brandon Kenemer, Lili Casanova, Renee Nolen, Bob Rodes, Xin Xu, Karla Sneegas, Steve Babb, Sarah O’Leary, Sarah Edwards, Kari Sapsis, Janet Henry, Kimberly August
CDC/ OADS
Brian Gurbaxani, Mim Kelly, Kathleen Hayes
Additional CDC Support
Joan Braithwaite, Priya Vijayasarathi, Wanda Barfield, Sally Lin, Cathleen Walsh, Nick Farrell, Erin Black, Frances Babcock, Ann O’Connor
State Partners
Hellen Dekle (SC), Sally Herndon (NC), Farid Shamo and Molly Cotant (MI), Christin Kirchenbauer (OK)
Atlanta Housing Authority
Howard Grant, Cynthia McDonald
GA Department of Public Health
Jean O’Connor
HUD
Peter Ashley, Martin Nee, Marquita Sanders, Eric Christensen, Rachel Riley, Leroy Ferguson, Merrie Nicholsdixon
This project has been created as a part of a student senior design project at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The CDC Office of Smoking and Health and the CDC Office of the Associate Director for Science provided expertise and guidance for the development of the Extinguish tool in the support of the implementation of HUD’s Smoke-free policy. However, CDC does not endorse private products, services or enterprises.
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