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Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 457-468

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From page 457...
... Ms. Burke had been chief of staff to the Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and deputy staff director of the Senate Committee on Finance and the Secretary of the Senate, the chief administrative officer of the body.
From page 458...
... sexism, independently and jointly influence access to and use of these preventive services and related health outcomes among multiply marginalized groups. Her research has been published in leading public health and medical peer-reviewed journals, including American Journal of Public Health, Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine.
From page 459...
... Cardona was selected for a Pahara Fellowship, a 1-year program that identifies exceptional leaders in the educational excellence and equity movement, facilitates their dynamic growth, and strengthens their collective efforts to dramatically improve public education, especially those programs serving low-income children and communities. He was in the Obama Administration as a senior policy advisor on the White House Domestic Policy Council and held senior roles in the Senate, including as a principal advisor to the chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
From page 460...
... The proud daughter of South Korean immigrants, she is on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission on Data Modernization, Office of Minority Health Subject Matter Experts Group on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, and boards of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation and national YWCA USA. She received her J.D.
From page 461...
... Abigail Echo-Hawk, M.A., is the executive vice president of Seattle Indian Health Board and director of its data and research division, Urban Indian Health Institute. She serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Public Health Data National Commission, University of Washington Population Health Initiative External Advisory Board, Data for Indigenous Justice Board, and
From page 462...
... in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a Carolina Population Center Predoctoral Trainee and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Michigan. Margaret P
From page 463...
... She was appointed to the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice at the National Academies. She was named on the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 Impact List 2021, in part due to her editing and authoring the first nursing text on American Indian health, which won two book-of-the-year awards.
From page 464...
... Vivek Shandas, Ph.D., is a professor of climate adaptation and founder and director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research at Portland State University, where he brings a policy-relevant approach, including evaluating environmental stressors on human health, developing indicators and tools to improve decision making, and constructing frameworks to guide the growth of urban regions. He specializes in developing strategies for addressing the implications of climate change on cities.
From page 465...
... She is a member of the National Academies Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE GREENWALL FELLOW IN BIOETHICS Kavita Shah Arora, M.D., M.B.E., M.S., is an associate professor with tenure and the division director for general obstetrics, gynecology, and midwifery at the University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill.
From page 466...
... STAFF Amy Geller, M.P.H., is a senior program officer in HMD on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. During her 20 years at the National Academies, she has staffed committees spanning many topics, including advancing health equity, reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, workforce resilience, vaccine safety, reducing tobacco use, drug safety, treating post-traumatic stress disorder, and prevention and control of STIs.
From page 467...
... Aimee Mead, M.P.H., is an associate program officer in HMD and on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She has staffed National Academies consensus reports on a variety of public health challenges, including eliminating hepatitis B and C in the United States, reducing alcohol-impaired driving, reviewing the public health consequences of e-cigarettes, preventing STIs, and reviewing the health effects and patterns of use of premium cigars.
From page 468...
... Y Crysti Park is a program coordinator on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.


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