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Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Pages 185-192
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After retiring from the State Department in 2000, Ambassador Pickering joined The Boeing Company as Senior Vice President International Relations and member of the Executive Council, where he was responsible for the Company's relations with foreign governments and the globalization of Boeing. Ambassador Pickering holds a B.A.
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Dr. Varmus also serves as Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health and chairs the Advisory Committee for the Global Health Division; is a member of the Science Initiatives Group that oversees the Millennium Science Initiative; and is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Public Library of Science.
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Debas's stewardship, the UCSF School of Medicine became a national model for medical education, an achievement for which he was recognized with the 2004 Abraham Flexner Award of the AAMC. His prescient grasp of the implications of fundamental changes in science led him to create several interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research centers that have been instrumental in reorganizing the scientific community at UCSF.
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Prior to assuming her current position, she was the Director of the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Dr. Hehir earned an interdisciplinary doctorate degree from Harvard University in applied theology, combining the study of international relations and ethics.
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Since then, he has worked on virtually every major public health issue, including infectious diseases such as smallpox and HIV/AIDS, environmental issues such as the Bhopal chemical disaster, and the health toll of tobacco and chronic diseases, both in the United States and around the globe.
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Dr. Sewankambo has served on numerous local and international advisory boards including the Working Party on the Ethics of Clinical Research in Developing Countries of the Nuffield Council for Bioethics, The Joint Learning Initiative, the WHO African Advisory Committee on Health and Research Devel opment, and the Board of Directors of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network.
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From 1992 to 2002, Mr. Van Ameringen was a Director based in Africa for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
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