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Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Presenters
Pages 34-37

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... Cabot professor of public policy, epidemiology and population, and international health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her work is oriented towards understanding social inequalities in health and aging related to socioeconomic status, labor policy, and social networks and social isolation.
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... in public health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Stephen Tollman is professor of community health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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... He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the INDEPTH Network. He was awarded the Nordic Public Health Prize by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Medal of Honor in Population Health from the Ministry of Health, Vietnam, and an honorary doctor of medicine by the University of Southern Denmark.
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... Gilles Pison is director of research of the French National Institute for Demographic Research in Paris, where he is in charge of scientific communication; he is also professor at the French National Museum of Natural History. His research interests include aging and life expectancy, mortality and causes of death, the demography and health of twins, population projections (particularly for African countries)
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