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Appendix F Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix F Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 337-354
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Among his many international responsibilities, he chaired the Advisory Committee to the Editors of the Disease Control Priorities Project in Deeloping Countries (2nd edition) ; a joint project between Fogarty International Center and the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization.
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, is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Brown University AIDS Center at Brown University. In 1962, Carpenter started the Johns Hopkins Cholera Research program in Calcutta, India, where he demonstrated the value of antibiotics and defined the fluid requirements essential for the treatment of cholera.
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The Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention focuses on issues affecting the health of the public, including population-based public health measures and the public health infrastructure. In addition to his involvement with this Board, he has served on over 15 other National Academies committees.
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He is currently Director of a Masters Programme in Epidemiology at Imperial College and is Leader of the Public and International Health Strategy in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. His major research goals are to integrate field and theoretical studies of the biological and behavioral patterns determining the incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (including HIV)
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He has served on one prior National Academies committee. Priscilla Reddy, M.P.H., Ph.D., is Director of the Health Promotion Research and Development Unit at the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
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She has been principal investigator on several NIH RO1 grants. She is also Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science and Health Promotion at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory and Georgetown University.
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Dr. Weiss received her doctorate in Education and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Yale Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy.
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At the National HIV/AIDS Directorate he served as one of the consultants to oversee the implementation of the HIV comprehensive plan countrywide, Pharmaceutical Care Consultant for UNDP Regional Service Centre in South Africa, and a consultant for the HIV/AIDS Treatment Program for the Family Planning Association of Kenya. He has served on several national and international committees including the National Clinical Trials Committee in South Africa, Pharmacovigilance Committee, Nelson Mandela Foundation HIV/AIDS Committee, CIOMS/ WHO Clinical Trials Committee, WHO/TDR Product Research Evaluation Committee and Federal Employee Program, BCBS National P and T in the United States.
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He previously served for the RAND Corporation as senior economist, and as an assistant professor at Harvard University and State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has experience in consulting and policy making with international agencies such as the World Bank, United Nations, and WHO, as well as governments in Latin America and Asia and private corporations.
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Before joining the Global Health Council, Dr. Sherry was based in Geneva, Switzerland, serving as UNAIDS Director of Programme Development and Senior Advisor to its Executive Director, Dr.
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, is the founding Director of the Global Health Institute at Duke University. Prior to this appointment he was the Dean of Public Health and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University.
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Since 1996 she has worked with the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) , a research and evaluation organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that for over 20 years has helped develop and evaluate strategies to promote the well being of children, youth, families, and their communities.
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In early 2004, he was awarded a Fogarty International HIV Grant for a project in Burkina Faso. In September 2004, IOM appointed him as a consultant to its Board on Global Health Committees studying the options for overseas placement of U.S.
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IOM Staff Patrick W Kelley, M.D., Dr.P.H., joined the Institute of Medicine in July 2003, serving as the Director of the Board on Global Health and the Board on African Academy Science Development.
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Scott, M.S.P.H., joined the IOM's Board on Global Health in September 2005 as the Senior Program Officer for the PEPFAR evaluation. She has worked in public health for nearly 20 years with an emphasis on service planning, delivery, and evaluation related to community mental health and to HIV/AIDS care, prevention, and treatment.
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Prior to coming to the Board, Alice focused on health care utilization and international health program evaluation. She worked as a project manager at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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, Administrative Assistant at the American College of Cardiology, Project Manager with a Private Events and Project Management Firm implementing national projects and private initiatives in Ghana, and Office Manager at a private medical practice at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. She also served as a member of Ghana's delegation to South Africa to understudy the National Job Summit held in South Africa in October 1998, Lead Coordinator and Organizer of the first Business Support Services Expo in Ghana, and President of the Soroptimist International, Kumasi Club (Ghana)
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