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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 85-90

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... Previously, he was an assistant professor of health policy and management and research director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. His expertise includes survey research, public health data, 85
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... BENJAMIN DRUSS (Speaker) is a professor and Rosalynn Carter chair in mental health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, where he also directs the Center for Behavioral Health Policy Studies.
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... KATHLEEN RIES MERIKANGAS (Chair, Steering Committee) is senior investigator and chief of the Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health.
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... She serves as a co-investigator on the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II and as the project director of a calibration study to determine an estimate of childhood serious emotional disturbance within the National Health Interview Survey. Her research focuses on children's mental health services research, with an interest in the nonspecialty mental health service systems.
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... His health services research focuses primarily on developing methodology for quality measurement of health plans and providers and understanding the implications of these quality measurements. He also works on analyses for the World Mental Health Surveys and for the Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers of the U.S.
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  • emotional disturbance
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  • health statistics
  • epidemiology research
  • genetic epidemiology
  • expertise includes
  • ethnic disparities

  • project director
  • care policy
  • substance abuse
  • intramural research
  • nonspecialty mental

  • national opinion
  • health collaborative
  • special health
  • state health
  • research director

  • health access
  • national surveys
  • health clinical
  • research methods
  • research senior


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