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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
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As a 2013 National Health Journalism Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism, she produced a multimedia project, Surviving Through Age 18 in Detroit, which documented the city's high infant mortality and youth homicide rates, spurring action by city officials. She is a graduate of Michigan State University.
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Later, she spent nearly 10 years as director of The Media Project, a partnership of Advocates for Youth and the Kaiser Family Foundation, which addressed portrayals of adolescent reproductive health in the media, working with dozens of prime-time and daytime television shows on storylines featuring HIV/ AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy prevention, condom use, and sex education, among other topics. She also produced the annual SHINE Awards for sexual health in entertainment and developed a cutting-edge media campaign for Viacom to normalize condom use and encourage healthy relationships.
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She served as a senior policy adviser in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services from 1990 to 1996, where her focus was on the financing of clinical preventive services, the economics and outcomes of public health programs, and health care reform.
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He currently is co-chair of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, and he co-directs the Wisconsin site of the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program. He was an initial co–principal investigator on the Robert Wood Johnson MATCH grant under which the County Health Rankings were developed, and he was the founder of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Roadmaps to HealthPrize.
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He chaired the IOM's Committee on Health Literacy in 2002–2004, chaired Wisconsin Governor Doyle's Healthy Wisconsin Taskforce in 2006, and received the 2007 Wisconsin Public Health Association's Distinguished Service to Public Health Award. Michelle Larkin, J.D., M.S., R.N., is an assistant vice president and deputy director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF's)
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Levander reported in Asia, Latin America, and the United States for Time Magazine Asia, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the San Jose Mercury News. She has received journalism awards from the Overseas Press Club of America (Best Reporting in Latin America)
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During her earlier tenure at ICSI, she helped expand ICSI's focus beyond guideline development and quality improvement activities to include strategic initiatives designed to enhance patient-centered and value-driven health care. Two unique programs in the country -- ICSI's DIAMOND program for depression and the statewide initiative to ensure the appropriate use of high-technology diagnostic imaging scans -- are outcomes of that focus.
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He is passionate about his role as a board member of Whitman Walker Health, the largest provider of HIV/AIDS health services in Washington, DC, and he has a strong focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender health issues. Whitman Walker, a federally qualified health center, is the new and better entry point for many Americans to receive their health care.
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Jeff Niederdeppe, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. His research examines the mechanisms and effects of mass media campaigns, strategic health messages, and news coverage in shaping health behavior, health disparities, and social policy.
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Carlos Roig is executive vice president at Home Front, where he leads the Media and Content Strategy Division with a strong emphasis on creative storytelling, strategic distribution, and engagement on multiple platforms. He built and established the agency's first digital media strategy team before merging the digital, broadcast, and print units into a single, integrated division.
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