Cindy L. Lewis, MSPH, CSP, CIT

Cindy L. Lewis, MSPH, CSP, CIT, is Director, Office of Professional Development and Program Evaluation, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Services in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Office provides professional development and continuing education opportunities in the diverse areas of public health including leadership and safety and health compliance. In addition, the Office conducts evaluations of existing health and safety programs for goal creation, progress and completion. The Office is also an OSHA Challenge Administrator for Arkansas and Region VI OSHA.

Lewis has more than 24 years’ experience in safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene and training. She has worked as an industrial hygienist for KBR, a safety & health manager for Cooper Energy Services and Anheuser-Busch, and most recently was the Director of the Gulf Coast Safety Institute at the College of the Mainland for the past 14 years. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry from MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL, where she was named the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Career Award winner, and an M.S. in Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences from the University of Illinois – Chicago, where she was a NIOSH trainee.  

Lewis holds the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and Certified Instructional Trainer (CIT) designations from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP). Lewis is also a Certified Trainer in both “Take Flight with DISC” and “Bring Your ‘A’ Game”.

An American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) member since 1996, she has held offices for the Gulf Coast Chapter (Houston) as V.P. of Membership Services and President (2 terms). Lewis’ Region III leadership roles have included Deputy Regional Vice President, Region III PDC Chair and Regional Treasurer. Nationally, she was a member of the Strategic Planning, Professional Development Conference, and Public Relations Committees and is the founder and Past Administrator of the Training & Communication Practice Specialty.

Lewis was named the ASSP Gulf Coast Chapter’s Safety Professional of the Year (SPY) and ASSP Region III SPY in 2002 and Training and Communication Branch SPY in 2008. She has published articles in ASSP’s Professional Safety and the VPPPA’s The Leader and has presented at numerous professional association conferences. 



In 2017, Lewis was appointed by the Secretary of Labor to the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) and has been re-appointed each term since. In 2021, Lewis was appointed as Chair of NACOSH and the Heat Prevention Work Group.

Welcome to the Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center team, Cindy!

Solange Paredes

During the Spring and Summer of 2022, I interned with the BREATHE program through the Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center. As a current laboratorian and master’s student in Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, I felt it essential to strengthen my experience in community involvement. Through this perspective, I had a better understanding of the importance of another facet of public health that did not involve biomedical research. An internship with the Louisiana Department of Health provided insight into the vital role of public health tracking to increase health equity and access to asthma care services. In the application and enrollment of people within the community, I was able to relate what I learned from courses at Tulane and felt that I not only gained valuable knowledge, but I also made an impact. 

As we approach winter and the holidays, the Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center wants everyone to have a safe and enjoyable season.

Listed below are several useful resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Safety Council (NSC) to help keep everyone safe this winter.

Jimmie Davis

Jimmie Davis is a semi-retired senior citizen that left the workforce in July of 2021. In his former profession, Mr. Davis worked with the homeless population of Detroit, Michigan. No longer in the workforce, Mr. Davis discovered that an idle body does not equal an idle mind. Because of his creativity and passion to address the needs of the masses, Mr. Davis was compelled to research and develop a new program/project to address citywide conservation, environmental, community health issues facing the city of Detroit and its surroundings.

How did you hear about the Tulane Learning Management System?

I learned about the Tulane Learning Management System while searching the Internet for free Conservation/Environmental trainings.

What’s the best thing about the trainings on the Tulane LMS?

Aside from being free, the trainings are thorough and manageable.

How have the trainings been beneficial to you?

I have fostered an idea for a new non-profit to address several conservation/environmental/community health issues facing Metropolitan Detroit, Michigan area. Several of the courses hosted on the Tulane Learning Management System go right to the heart of these issues.

Thank you for being our December 2022 Tulane LMS Learner of the Month, Jimmie Davis!

R6-SCPHTC Team Members

Stacey Eharb, David Mora, Janine Clarke

The Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center team went to the Hyatt New Orleans with their mobile one-button recording booth and video equipment to support Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Summit on December 4-6, 2022. The R6-SCPHTC team captured audio and video of summit guests for use in upcoming health equity educational material.

P4HE invites everyone from all walks of life and experiences to drive the advancement of our common goal - a society where everyone has the ability to live the healthiest life possible.

Please visit their website at https://www.partners4healthequity.org

The Region 6 South Central Public Health Training Center will be closed on

Friday, December 23, 2022 until Tuesday, January 3, 2022 for Winter Recess.

Technical support for the Tulane PACE Learning Management System will be extremely limited during this time. If you require assistance, please email [email protected]

We wish everyone a joyous holiday season and Happy New Year!

Course Spotlight:

Revive. Survive. Overdose Prevention for Prescribers

Course Description:

The goal of this course is to provide general training and build capacity for prescribers regarding the opioid epidemic, signs of overdoses, naloxone, and harm reduction. 

The Revive. Survive. OverDose Prevention program works within the Prevention Department at Odyssey House LA. Their goal is to address and alleviate the impact the opioid epidemic has on the New Orleans community. Valuable examples will be provided on what steps Louisiana has taken to address the epidemic.

The Revive. Survive. OverDose Prevention curriculum is designed to provide general guidance and training to prescribers, pharmacists, clients, and community members on the overview of the opioid epidemic, naloxone administration and access, and tools to address the needs of individuals suffering with addiction.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand what is Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and the severity of the opioid epidemic

• Recognize the signs of an overdose and how to administer Naloxone

• Describe the laws and regulations that protect you as a pharmacist when prescribing Naloxone and as a bystander when administering Naloxone

• Understand your biases on addiction and how stigmatizing language may affect individuals from receiving proper care

• Recognize examples of harm reduction methods based on harm reduction principles and how it relates to the stages of change

For more information about

this training, please click here.

Featured Course Bundle:

First Responder Preparedness

Course Bundle Description:

The First Responder Preparedness curriculum covers communication, field exercises, handing of chemical agents and biological response preparedness. 

Trainings in this bundle include:

• Recognition and Safe Handling of Chemical Terrorist Agents (2 hours)

• Practice-based Scenarios for Recognition, Detection and Exposure Assessment of Chemical Terrorist Agents (3 hours)

• Biological Response Preparedness for Emergency Medical Services (4 hours)

• Communication Gap: Linking First Responders and First Receivers (3 hours)

• Planning, Implementation and Exploitation of a Field Exercise (6 hours)

For additional information about the

First Responder Preparedness

course bundle,  click here.