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Appendix D: Committee, Consultant, and Staff Biographies
Pages 793-814

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... Black (Chair) is the chair of the Department of International Health and the Edgar Berman Professor in International Health, as well as the director of the Institute for International Programs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
From page 794...
... in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught, presented, and published in the areas of HIV/AIDS, social science and public policy, and sex and gender, with articles appearing in such journals as Global Public Health, American Journal of Public Health, Science, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. She serves on a number of commissions and advisory and editorial boards, including for the International AIDS Society Governing Council, the Global HIV Prevention Working Group, the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council, and the Journal of the International AIDS Society.
From page 795...
... Dr. Dare has been a member of the West African Postgraduate Medical College in the Faculty of Public Health since 1990 and a fellow of the Nigerian National Postgraduate Medical College in the Faculty of Community Medicine since 1992.
From page 796...
... Professor Sofia Gruskin directs the Program on Global Health and Human Rights at the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California and holds appointments as a professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine and as a professor of law and preventive medicine at the Gould School of Law. She is adjunct professor of global health at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she was previously an associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Population; the director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights; the co-director of the Interdepartmental Program on Women, Gender and Health; and the faculty chair of the Group on Reproductive Health and
From page 797...
... . Professor Gruskin was editor-in-chief of the international journal Health and Human Rights from 1994 to 2006 and is currently an associate editor for the American Journal of Public Health, Global Public Health, and Reproductive Health Matters.
From page 798...
... (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID] , National
From page 799...
... ) , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, the U.S.
From page 800...
... He is the director of the Center for AIDS Research at UCSD and a staff physician at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) San Diego Healthcare System.
From page 801...
... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is chair of the Ethics Special Primary Interest Group of the American Public Health Association. Her research interests focus on health ethics, economics, and politics on the political economy of health and include health financing and insurance; health, health systems, and economic development; health and social justice; global health justice; and global health governance.
From page 802...
... Dr. Smith began her career at CDC coordinating the HER Study, a multisite longitudinal study of the effects of HIV infection on women, and collaborating with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
From page 803...
... Dr. Papa Salif Sow is a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Dakar in Senegal.
From page 804...
... Dr. Taha is a physician with diverse training and extensive experience in infectious diseases, community medicine, public health, and demography.
From page 805...
... She holds joint appointments in community and family medicine and nursing. She is the director of the Center for Health Policy and Health Inequities Research and is the research director for the Hart Fellows Program.
From page 806...
... She guided the National Institutes of Health AIDS Clinical Trials Group when the efficacy of using doses of AZT to reduce the incidence of mother-to-child transmission of HIV was established. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the United States is estimated to have been reduced to fewer than 200 cases per year.
From page 807...
... At SCI, Ms. Tucker has worked with clinical trials in a variety of therapeutic areas, including cardiology, oncology, tropical and infectious diseases, allergies, genetic disorders, radiographic imaging, and pre-clinical studies of decompression sickness.
From page 808...
... Prior to co-directing this evaluation of U.S. global HIV/AIDS programs, she was the study director for the report, Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health, and continues to direct a series of related follow-up activities, including the workshop Country-Level Decision Making for Control of Chronic Diseases.
From page 809...
... in health systems and policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a B.A. in business from Southwestern University.
From page 810...
... Board on Global Health as a senior program associate for the IOM evaluation of PEPFAR and as a research associate for the Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for Malaria in Infants. Before coming to the National Academies in 2004, he worked on policy implementation issues such as HIV/AIDS prevention policy and electoral administration in Anglophone and Francophone West Africa.
From page 811...
... Prior to this study she worked on the report Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health (2010)
From page 812...
... Board on Global Health. She is involved in dissemination activities for the 2010 report Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health as well as in the outcome and impact evaluation of PEPFAR.
From page 813...
... In this role, she directs a range of activities that address emerging and critical issues in the lives of children, youth, and families. She was previously the associate director of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at New York University where she managed a portfolio of grants and contracts that examined child development within a changing global context.
From page 814...
... commitment to global health, priorities for building food and drug regulatory capacity in developing countries, sustainable surveillance for zoonotic infections, and promoting cardiovascular health in the developing world. He also directs a unique capacity-building effort, the African Science Academy Development Initiative, which over 11 years aims to strengthen the capacity of African academies to advise their governments on scientific matters.


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