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Appendix B: Speaker Biographies
Appendix B: Speaker Biographies
Pages 69-76
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identifying ways for city government to become a stronger advocate for health issues. The Community Health Roundtable continues to serve as a vehicle for discussion and advocacy for health issues affecting all the diverse communities in East Palo Alto.
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in East Palo Alto and in November of 2003 became the chief executive officer of RFHC. As a consultant, Buada worked with community health centers on strategic and financial planning, organizational development, architectural planning, and bilingual board training.
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She edited Reporting on Violence: A Handbook for Journalists, which helps reporters include a public health perspective in their reporting on violence and is part of an interdisciplinary team that has conducted workshops on the reporting of violence for newspapers and local television news stations. Outside of BMSG, Dorfman is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, where she teaches mass communications and public health.
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" Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College (bachelor of arts degree, 1971)
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He further asserts that the only sustainable approach to eliminating health inequities is through the design of intensive, multisectoral, place-based interventions that are specifically designed to identify existing assets and build social, political, and economic power among a critical mass of community residents in historically underresourced communities. Iton received a medical degree at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and subsequently trained in internal medicine and preventive medicine at New York Hospital, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley, and is board certified in both specialties.
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Kelley's community activities include the following: past president of the African American Historical and Cultural Museum of the San Joaquin Valley and past vice president of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Fresno. Other areas of civic and community involvement include being a member of the Care Fresno Board of Directors, the Salvation Army Advisor Committee, the Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission's Round Table Committee, the Fulton/Lowell Implementation Committee, the City of Fresno's Dr.
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Veloz also served as the first director of government relations and public affairs at the Los Angeles Care Health Plan, a health maintenance organization public entity initially created to serve Medicaid beneficiaries, mostly women and children in Los Angeles County. Veloz was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be a special assistant to the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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His organization has had extensive health education projects that serve Southeast Asian refugees in Fresno, California. Yang has been a committee member on the Fresno County Local Child Care Planning Council and the HIV Planning Council of Sierra Community Medical Center.
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