Advisors
Paul Bancroft Allwood, PhD, MPH, RS
 Assistant Director of Environmental Health and Safety
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
University of Minnesota
Dr. Allwood is an Assistant Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota. He has extensive academic and professional training in environmental health and has worked in a variety of public health program areas, including 12 years as a food safety regulator with state and local food safety agencies.
Dr. Allwood holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Minnesota and is a member of Minnesota Environmental Health Association, National Environmental Health Association, and the Conference for Food Protection. His current research interests include efforts to optimize food safety health inspections by providing inspectors with sensitive, reliable, and cost-effective tools, and investigating the mechanisms of hand contamination of ready-to-eat foods with food borne pathogens.
Douglas L. Archer
 Professor and Past Chair
Food Science and Human Nutrition Department
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
University of Florida
Dr. Archer received a B.A. degree in Zoology in 1968 and a M.S. degree in Bacteriology in 1970 from the University of Maine, and a Ph.D. degree in Microbiology in 1973 from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Archer was appointed Professor and Chair, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, on January 3, 1994. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Archer served as Deputy Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he was charged with oversight of the research, regulatory and policy activities of all foods and cosmetic programs.
During his career with FDA, Dr. Archer was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) and was appointed Assistant Surgeon General in July 1990. Furthermore, he received numerous awards including five citations for excellence, three Meritorious Service Medals, and the Distinguished Service Medal. Non-government awards included the 1988 Tanner Memorial Award from the Institute of Food Technologists.
Dr. Archer has authored or co-authored more than eighty peer-reviewed scientific publications, Dr. Archer is a member of the Food and Drug Administration's Food Advisory Committee.
Barbara Kowalcyk
 Director of Food Safety
Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention
Ms. Kowalcyk became interested in foodborne illness prevention in 2001 following the death of her 2 ½ year old son, Kevin from complications due to an E. coli O157:H7 infection. Ms. Kowalcyk has volunteered extensively as a consumer advocate for food safety and co-founded the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention in 2006. In addition, Ms. Kowalcyk has served on USDA’s National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) since 2005 and the Food Safety Research Consortium’s Advisory Board.
Ms. Kowalcyk has given numerous presentations on food safety and has testified before the National Academies of Science. In addition to her extensive experience in food safety advocacy, Ms. Kowalcyk has over 10 years experience as a biostatistician conducting clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry.
Ms. Kowalcyk earned her undergraduate degree from the Univeristy of Dayton in Mathematics and her Master’s in Applied Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Kowalcyk is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Environmental Health with a specialty in Epidemiology/Biostatistics at the University of Cincinnati and resides in Maineville, Ohio with her husband and three surviving children.
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