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Appendix C: Committee Biosketches
Pages 117-126

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... . Her focus at HHS was on financing of clinical preventive services and the economics of public health programs.
From page 118...
... He has served as a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which develops the Guide, and on America's Health Information Community Personalized Health Care Workgroup.
From page 119...
... . She serves on the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Medical Association; the boards of directors of the VHA Foundation, the Atlanta Regional Health Forum, and ZAP Asthma Consortium, Inc.; and the advisory committees for the Association for Community Health Improvement, the Association for Health Information Management Foundation, and the MPH Program at Florida A&M University, where she serves as chair.
From page 120...
... , is the Linda and Timothy O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law and the director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. He served as the associate dean of Georgetown Law until 2008.
From page 121...
... and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he is principal investigator of the California Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Improvement Center. He leads the UCLA/RAND health-services training program and the UCLA/RAND–Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Center.
From page 122...
... Mr. Lopez' other professional activities in the field include serving as a member of the National Advisory Committee to the Public Health Law Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as a member of a workgroup assisting the CDC's National Center Health Statistics to revise the Model State Vital Statistics Act and Regulations.
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... Mary Mincer Hansen, RN, PhD, is director of the Master of Public Health program and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Global Health of Des Moines University. She is the former director of the Iowa Department of Public Health in the cabinet of Governor Vilsack, where she was his designee to Governor Huckabee's National Governors Association Chair's Initiative Healthy America, which focused on addressing the obesity epidemic in America.
From page 124...
... She has been received many honors, including selection as a state scholar for the Public Health Leadership Institute in 1996, the California Public Health Association-North Leadership Award in 2003, and the Outstanding Berkeley Woman Award in 2005. She has served on many advisory boards and commissions and was elected president of the California Conference of Local Health Officers for 2001–2003, president of the Health Officers Association of California for 2003–2005, and president of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
From page 125...
... government's global HIV/AIDS PEPFAR program and on the IOM panel recommending the research agenda for public health preparedness, is a commissioner on the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) , and advises the World Health Organization's Health Metrics Network Technical Working Group.
From page 126...
... Thompson Distinguished Fellow Award from Yale University for Innovation in Healthcare, and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Professional Achievement from the University of Iowa. He serves on the Institute of Medicine's Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, the Board of Directors of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the Board of Advisors to the School of Public Health of the University of Iowa, and the Board of the National Business Group on Health and chairs the Global Health Benefits Institute.


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