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Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Pages 220-226
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He chaired the Department for Preventive and Social Medicine in Ibaden, Nigeria, until 1976. From 1976 to 1986, he directed the Tropical Diseases Research Programme of the World Health Organization, and from 1986 to 1990, he served as the chair of the Carnegie Corporation's Strengthening Human Resources in Developing Countries grant program.
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In 1995-1996 she was a visiting scientist at the World Health Organization. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Saving Newborn Lives Initiative of Save the Children, a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Perinatal Research Society, the American Pediatric Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and chairman of the Membership Committee for Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has served on numerous advisory committees, including the Council for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institutes of Health Expert Panels on the Content of Prenatal Care and on Pregnancy, Birth, and the Infant Research Plan; and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Child Health Advisory Panel.
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He is currently a distinguished scientist of the Medical Research Council of Canada. His research focuses on perinatal epidemiology and currently includes a multicenter randomized trial of the World Health Organization/United Nations Children's Fund Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to promote breastfeeding; development of new fetal growth standards based on early ultrasound-validated gestational age; international comparisons of fetal and infant mortality; and mechanisms and causal pathways underlying socioeconomic disparities in risk for preterm birth.
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HARSHADKUMAR CHANDULAL SANGHVI, M.B., Ch.B., has more than 15 years of experience in Africa as a clinical service provider and university faculty and researcher in obstetrics and gynecology. In his current position as the medical director of the Maternal and Neonatal Program at the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics in Baltimore Maryland, he is responsible for the development of reproductive health training materials, especially those for maternal and neonatal health care.
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Dr. Simpson has received major research funding from the March of Dimes, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S.
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