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Speaker Biographical Sketches
Anna Alberini, Ph.D., is associate professor of economics in the Depart-
ment of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Mary-
land, College Park. Her research interests are in environmental economics
(including valuation of natural and nonmarket resources, estimation and
valuation of health effects of environmental quality), energy economics,
econometrics and statistics. Alberini has served as a co-editor of the Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management, is serving on the editorial
board of numerous environmental economics journals, and has served on
the Science Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency for
Environmental Economics for two terms. She has participated in a number
of research projects funded by the European Commission, and has done
research for U.S. and Canadian government agencies. Dr. Alberini earned
her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
John M. Antle, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics at Oregon State University and a University Fellow at
Resources for the Future. Dr. Antle previously served as professor at the
University of California, Davis, and Montana State University. He was a
senior staff economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and
served as a member of the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Board on
Agriculture and Natural Resources. Dr. Antle is a fellow and past president
of the American Agricultural Economics Association. His current research
focuses on the sustainability of agricultural systems in industrialized and
developing countries, including climate change impacts, adaptation, and
mitigation in agriculture; assessment of environmental and social impacts
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of agricultural technologies; and geologic carbon sequestration. He received
his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Justin Derner, Ph.D., is research leader for the Rangeland Resources Re-
search Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural
Research Service. Currently, Dr. Derner leads a multidisciplinary team of
scientists developing and providing land managers with the necessary tools
to address the interface of contemporary production-conservation issues
related to provision of ecosystem goods and services on western U.S. range-
lands. His research ascertains the effects of livestock as ecosystem engineers,
alone or in combination with fire and prairie dogs, to influence vegetation
heterogeneity, modify states of vegetation, and affect resilience within eco-
logical sites of semiarid rangelands. Research efforts target management
strategies for mitigation and adaptation of climate change on rangelands
by evaluating dynamics of soil carbon and nitrogen as influenced by man-
agement X environment (weather/climate) effects. Dr. Derner is a principal
investigator for the Central Plains Experimental Range site of the Long-
Term Agro-ecosystem Research network, a co–principal investigator on the
National Science Foundation- (NSF-) funded Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term
Ecological Research Project. In addition, he is an affiliate faculty member
in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at the University
of Wyoming and the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at
Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D. in rangeland ecology and
management from Texas A&M University.
Michael P. Doyle, Ph.D., is a Regents Professor of Food Microbiology and
director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia. He is an
active researcher in the area of food safety and security and works closely
with the food industry, government agencies, and consumer groups on is-
sues related to the microbiological safety of foods. He serves on food safety
committees of many scientific organizations and has been a scientific advi-
sor to many groups, including the World Health Organization, Institute of
Medicine (IOM), National Academy of Sciences (NAS)-NRC, International
Life Sciences Institute-North America, Food and Drug Administration,
USDA, Department of Defense, and Environmental Protection Agency. He
is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science, and International Association for
Food Protection and the Institute of Food Technologists, and is a member
of the IOM. Dr. Doyle received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Wisconsin in bacteriology/food microbiology.
Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is the director of the Los An-
geles County Department of Public Health, and a professor at the Schools
of Public Health and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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He previously served as co-director for the Center for Health Enhancement,
Education and Research. He also chairs the Secretary of Health and Human
Services’s expert advisory group on the 2020 Healthy People Project and the
U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force and is editor of the Annual
Review of Public Health. His current research interests are health impact
assessment and forecasting future health. He received his M.D. and M.P.H.
from Harvard University and M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anne C. Haddix, Ph.D., is the senior policy advisor at the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. Haddix co-founded and successfully
cultivated Prevention Effectiveness as a scientific discipline at CDC, estab-
lishing the first set of methodological guidelines for cost-effectiveness analy-
sis of public health interventions. She also helped to create the Prevention
Effectiveness Postdoctoral Fellowship program. Dr. Haddix is the author
or co-author of numerous scientific publications, and editor of Prevention
Effectiveness: A Guide to Decision Analysis and Economic Evaluation. Dr.
Haddix received her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of
Georgia and her M.S. in agricultural economics and B.A. in biology from
California State University, Fresno.
James K. Hammitt, Ph.D., is professor of economics and decision sci-
ences at the Harvard School of Public Health and a visiting professor at
the Toulouse School of Economics in France. Dr. Hammitt’s research and
teaching concern the development of decision analysis, cost-benefit analy-
sis, game theory, and other quantitative methods and their application to
health and environmental policy in the United States and internationally.
His research includes work on global climate change, the risks of pesticides
and other contaminants in food, and the cost-effectiveness of air pollution
control strategies. He also studies ways to measure the value of reduc-
ing health risks, including monetary and health-adjusted life-year metrics.
Dr. Hammitt previously served as a senior mathematician at the RAND
Corporation and as the Pierre-de-Fermat Chair of the Toulouse School of
Economics. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.
Martin Heller, Ph.D., is a research specialist with the Center for Sustain-
able Systems at the University of Michigan. Dr. Heller has conducted life
cycle assessment studies of short-rotation woody biomass energy crops;
a large-scale vertically integrated U.S. organic dairy (Aurora Organic
Dairy); and as part of an international team, a comprehensive, spatially
explicit study of U.S. dairy production for the Dairy Research Institute.
He also developed a seminal report on life cycle–based sustainability in-
dicators for assessment of the U.S. food system, published in Agricultural
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Systems. Previously, as a researcher at the C.S. Mott Group for Sustain-
able Food Systems at Michigan State University, Dr. Heller investigated
the ecological services provided by pasture- and confinement-based dair-
ies, and developed a “community food profile” intended to frame for a
general audience the opportunities of a community-based food system.
Dr. Heller received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Michigan State
University and a Ph.D., also in chemical engineering, from the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
Sandra A. Hoffmann, Ph.D., is a senior economist with the Food Econom-
ics Division of the USDA Economic Research Service. Her research focuses
on food safety, valuation of the health benefits of public policies, and in-
tegration of economic analysis and risk assessment. She is recognized for
her research on the attribution of foodborne illness to its food sources and
on childrens’ environmental health. She has advised the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) on valuation of children’s benefits from environ-
mental health programs. Sandy was a research fellow at Resources for the
Future (2000-2010) and a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison (1999-2000). She also practiced pesticide and chemical manufac-
ture regulatory law (1986-1989) and served with the U.S. Peace Corps in
rural Chile (1980-1982). Sandy earned her Ph.D. from the Department of
Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley,
and her M.A. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin–
Madison. She also received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law
School.
Gregory A. Keoleian, Ph.D., is the Peter M. Wege Endowed Professor of
Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan with appointments in
the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Keoleian serves as director of the
Center for Sustainable Systems. His research focuses on the development
and application of life cycle models and sustainability metrics to guide
the design and improvement of products and technology including energy
systems, transportation, buildings and infrastructure, consumer products
and packaging, and a variety of food systems. The center has pioneered the
development of methods in life cycle modeling to evaluate the sustainabil-
ity performance of food systems. Dr. Keoleian is serving a 2-year term as
president of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. He received his
M.S.E. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.
Jayson Lusk, Ph.D., is a professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in
the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University.
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He previously served on faculty at Purdue University and Mississippi State
University. Dr. Lusk has published more than 115 articles in peer-reviewed
scientific journals on topics related to economics, consumer behavior, and
food marketing and policy. He serves on the editorial council for seven
top academic journals, including the American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,
and the Journal of Consumer Affairs. He is a former director of the Agri-
cultural and Applied Economics Association. Dr. Lusk recently coauthored
a book on consumer research methods, an undergraduate textbook on
agricultural marketing and price analysis, and a book on the economics of
animal welfare. He also coedited the Oxford Handbook of the Economics
of Food Consumption and Policy. His forthcoming book, Food Police, is
slated for publication in 2013. He earned his B.S. in food technology from
Texas Tech University and his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Kansas
State University.
Ricardo J. Salvador, Ph.D., is director and senior scientist in the Food and
Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Earlier, he
served as associate professor at Iowa State University, where he was the
charter chair of the graduate program in sustainable agriculture. His spe-
cializations range from drought resistance mechanisms in the maize crop to
advanced crop production techniques and global food issues. Dr. Salvador
previously served as a program officer for food, health, and well-being with
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where he managed the Foundation’s food
system program. He earned his B.S. in general agriculture from the New
Mexico State University and M.S. and Ph.D. in crop production from Iowa
State University.
Katherine (Kitty) Smith, Ph.D., is vice president of programs and chief
economist at the American Farmland Trust. She oversees research and
policy development, and administers programs concerning farmland pro-
tection, food, agriculture, and the environment. Prior to joining American
Farmland Trust, Dr. Smith served as administrator of the USDA’s Economic
Research Service (ERS). She has held numerous other leadership positions
within the ERS, including director of the resource economics and market
and trade economics divisions. Dr. Smith also served as the first director of
policy studies, pioneering cutting-edge concepts such as “green payments”
and whole-farm conservation planning with the Henry A. Wallace Institu-
tion for Alternative Agriculture. She has served on several United Nations
Expert Panels and chaired the Organization of International Cooperation
and Development’s Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment.
Her work has been published in books and scholarly journals throughout
her career. Dr. Smith is a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Association. She earned her B.S. in biological sciences and Ph.D. in agricul-
tural and resource economics from the University of Maryland.
Scott M. Swinton, Ph.D., is a professor and associate chair in the Depart-
ment of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State
University. His current research explores economic approaches to enhance
the provision of ecosystem services from agriculture, including projects with
the NSF’s long-term ecological research agroecological site in Michigan and
the U.S. Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. In
addition to his U.S. activities, he has conducted research on farming systems
and natural resource management while living in Africa and Latin America.
Dr. Swinton served on the NAS panel on the status of pollinators and on
several journal editorial boards, including the American Journal of Agricul-
tural Economics and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. He earned
his B.A. in political science and economics from Swarthmore College, his
M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. in
agricultural and applied economics from the University of Minnesota.
Steven Wing, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research and teaching are primarily in the areas
of occupational and environmental health. Dr. Wing has conducted several
studies of air pollution and health in communities near confined animal
feeding operations. Dr. Wing received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
