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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches
Pages 276-284
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Previously he was professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and pediatrician-in-chief at Sinai Hospital. He has held academic positions at Harvard University and at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester.
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He has served as president of the American Public Health Association and as a senior consultant to the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform and has testified before numerous committees of Congress and the California legislature. He has written widely on public health issues; his recent research focuses on health insurance coverage, access to health services, and public policy, especially as it affects low-income populations and ethnic and racial minorities.
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from the Yale University School of Medicine. JANET CURRIE is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Previously he was a senior research scholar at the Center for Population Research at Georgetown University, a staff associate at the Center for Coordination of Research on Social Indicators of the Social Science Research Council, and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. He will join the faculty of the State University of New York at Albany as professor of sociology in fall 1999.
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He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a founding scholar of the Public Health Leadership Institute. He is active in a variety of forums on health issues, including improving access to health care for immigrant children and their families, reducing domestic and interpersonal violence, and community-based programs and services for HIV/AIDS efforts.
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. He was awarded the Theodore Saloutos prize by the Immigration History Society and the 1994 Phi Alpha Theta book award by the International Honor Society in History for Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace." As a specialist in both immigration history and the history of medicine, he has published many articles on the health of immigrants and refugees in the United States.
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He has received the Henry I Kaiser award for outstanding and innovative contributions in medical education from the Stanford University School of Medicine and has been honored for his work with Hispanic children by the Latino Health Affairs Council and COSSMHO.
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Previously he was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and a visiting Fulbright professor in Oaxaca, Mexico. His coauthored book, City on the Edge, on how immigration has changed Miami, won the Robert Park award for the best book in urban sociology and the Anthony Leeds Award for the best book in urban anthropology.
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SYLVIA FERNANDEZ VILLARREAL is clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, pediatric inpatient director and director of the Kempe Clinic for teen mothers, high-risk children, and their families, and chief of staff at San Francisco General Hospital. Previously, she was assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Denver.
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