Strategic Approach to the Evaluation of Programs Implemented Under the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix B Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 145-158
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and advisory bodies of the World Health Organization, the International Vaccine Institute, and other international organizations, he assists with the development of policies intended to improve child health. He chairs the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group and the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative.
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Bassett oversaw a wide range of program areas, including non-communicable disease, school health and maternal and child health, as well as a network of District Public Health offices devoted to improving health conditions in low-income neighborhoods. Prior to joining the New York City Health Department, Dr.
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Dr. Díaz is the director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a unique program that provides comprehensive, integrated, and interdisciplinary primary care, reproductive health, mental health, and health education services to teens.
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She reviews grants for the NIH Institute of Child Health and Human Development Biobehavioral and Behavioral Sciences Committee, the NIH Partners in Research Program, the NIH Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The NIH has awarded several major grants to Dr.
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and Gates Foundation-funded studies in Kenya, including a community-enrolled heterosexual couples' cohort and a randomized trial of a computerized counseling tool to promote positive prevention and antiretroviral therapy adherence. Other current studies include an NIH Challenge grant to test the real-world effectiveness of a Spanish-language intervention for Latinos living with HIV in New York City.
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Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta is a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Development Program.
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He is the director of the Center for AIDS Research at UCSD and staff physician at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. He trained as an infectious disease physician and medical virologist at Stanford, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Stansfield is the executive secretary of the Health Metrics Network (HMN) , responsible for managing the technical and financial contributions of HMN partners to accelerate reform of health information systems for improved health outcomes on behalf of the Network and its host, the World health Organization.
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She is the director of the Center for Health PolicyHealth Inequities Program, as well as the research director for the Hart Fellows Program. Whetten assisted in the creation of Duke's Global Health Institute (DGHI)
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Board on Global Health in September 2005 as a senior program officer. She has worked on several studies and activities including the Committee for the Evaluation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Implementation; Planning Committee on Preventing Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria in Infants; Committee on Depression, Parenting Practices and the Health Development of Children; and the Committee on Achieving Global Sustainable Surveillance for Zoonotic Diseases.
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Board on Global Health where she has served as research staff for the Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria in Infants and the Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin. Before coming to the IOM in 2007, she worked as a clinical research assistant of a study evaluating the effects that exposure to violence has on young mothers with preschoolage children at the Children's National Medical Center Research Institute in Washington, DC.
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in July 2003 as the Director of the Board on Global Health. He has subsequently also been appointed the Director of the Board on African Science Academy Development.
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. This responsibility entailed managing surveillance and capacity building partnerships with numerous elements of the federal government and with health ministries in more than 45 developing countries.
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