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Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Pages 77-92
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Abubakar has been instrumental in developing various culturally appropriate measures of child development currently in use in almost 10 African countries. She has also been involved in various projects aimed at examining the psychosocial risk factors (i.e., maternal depression, quality of home environment, and parental socioeconomic status)
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Constanza Alarcón, is a Psychologist at the National University of Colombia, and she has a degree in Special Education and Integral Social Attention in Mental Health. She also received a master's degree in Social and Educational Development and received a certificate for Early Childhood Education at Israel's Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center.
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, the Expert Advisory Group for Vaccine Research, the Advisory Committee for Health Research of WHO EMRO, and a co-chair of its apex Regional Committee for Maternal and Child Health. He has won several awards, including the Aga Khan University Awards for Research (2005)
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, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has worked in the field of international child health and development for 30 years and was the founder of the Partnership for Child Development, a civil society organization that promotes health and education in more than 50 countries.
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After completing his internship, he went to work as a district medical officer in the rural health district of Hlabisa, South Africa. He had a particular focus on child health and nutrition programmes and received his Diploma in Child Health during this time.
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She completed a research project to establish norms of plantar reflex in Indian infants. She was the Supervisor for a research studentship of the Indian Council of Medical Research for the project titled "Etiology of Neonatal Seizures in a Tertiary Health Care Centre." Additionally, she was a co-investigator in a multi micronutrient supplementation trial of malnourished pregnant women to see the effect on birth weight and early neonatal outcome.
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Dr. Fernald has published more than 70 academic articles and book chapters in journals such as Lancet, Pediatrics, International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Health Economics, Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, and Developmental Science; she also acts as an Associate Editor for Public Health Nutrition.
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from the University of Wisconsin and has held faculty appointments at Harvard University and RAND. He was awarded the Kenneth Arrow Award in health economics in 1996, an academic Leadership Award by NIH in 1998, a Research Medal in Economic Development by the Global Development Network in 2002, and The Juan Jose Bobadilla Medal for Global Health in 2013.
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Sunita Kishor, Ph.D., is the Director of the DHS Program, the leading nationally representative household survey program for developing countries since 1984. In addition to other demographic and health indicators, the USAID-funded program also collects information on child health, nutrition, and well-being.
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With current interests in developmental science and childhood interventions, the advancement of a global science of human development, and philosophical issues in behavioral science and education research, he has published extensively in the areas of early child development, early intervention efficacy, parent–child interaction, behavioral development in children adopted from China, and childhood disability in low- and middle-income countries. His scholarship has been cited across disciplines in more than 180 different journals worldwide.
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Dr. Masten's research focuses on understanding processes that promote competence and prevent problems in human development, with a focus on adaptive processes and pathways, developmental tasks and cascades, and resilience in the context of high cumulative risk, adversity, and trauma.
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Atif Rahman, Ph.D., is professor of child psychiatry at the University of Liverpool and chairs the academic child mental health unit at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and an Honorary Director of the Research NGO, the Human Development Research Foundation, Pakistan.
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Schady has worked at the World Bank and UNICEF, and has taught at Georgetown and Princeton. His main research areas include early childhood development, cash transfer programs, and the effects of economic crises on the accumulation of human capital.
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He has advised The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN Secretary General's office, the Government of Canada, Pepsico, BioVeda China Venture Capital Fund, and several African Governments on global health.
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Quentin Wodon, Ph.D., is an Adviser/Lead Economist in the Education Department of the Human Development Network at the World Bank where he serves as cluster leader for equity, resilience, and early childhood development. Previously, he managed the World Bank unit working on faith and development, served as Lead Poverty Specialist for Africa, and as an Economist/Senior Economist for Latin America.
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National Academy of Sciences, the Early Childhood Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Development Bank, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation for the Clinton and Obama administrations.
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