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Appendix D: Forum Member and Staff Biographies
Appendix D: Forum Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 103-114
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Dr. Ahonkhai is board-certified in pediatrics and is a long-standing member and fellow of several professional organizations including the American Medical Association, National Medical Association, American Society for Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Society of 103
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NANCY CARTER-FOSTER, M.S.T.M., is Director of the U.S. Department of State's Emerging Infectious Diseases Program and is responsible for heading the deparunent's policy coordination on infectious diseases and human immunodeficiency virus-AIDS issues and integrating international health issues with economic and national security implications into U.S.
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Some of his research interests are in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention, medical sociology, primary health care, rural health care, costbenef~t analysis, and cost-effectiveness. He is a member of the Global Advisory Group on Health Systems Research of the World Health Organization in Geneva, past president of the Association for Health Services Research and the Foundation for Health Services Research, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
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She holds appointments as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cornell University Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Columbia University School of Public Health. In her previous position as special assistant to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, M.D., she played a major role in research administration and policy development in the area of infectious diseases.
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He has chaired the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics (the Redbook Committee) , the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Vaccine Priorities Study of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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He was principal organizer and Chair of the 1989 Conference on Emerging Viruses at the National Institutes of Health, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Emerging Infections (1990-1992) , a current member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Xenograft Transplantation, and Chair of the Microbiology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. Nightingale has published numerous articles on the impact of federal and state legislation and regulations on medical practice, health fraud, protection of human subjects of research, policy formulation and drug regulation, safety and efficacy determinations and the health effects of FDA-regulated products, and drug abuse prevention.
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He has served as a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Infectious Diseases Merit Review Board and the National Institutes of Health Special Study Section on Biology of Mycobacteria.
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POLLY F HARRISON, Ph.D., is the founder and head of the Alliance for Microbicide Development, an investigator-led consortium of small biopharmaceutical companies, scientists, and advocates whose objectives are to advocate for microbicide development and educate the public and policy communities about its importance; track and communicate product progress through the research and development pipeline; foster building of a funding base to support combination and comparative studies; improve the efficiency of preclinical development processes; and explore, research, and inform interested parties about critical topics.
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Her graduate work has included research and policy analysis on issues ranging from environmental, biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, human health, and emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. In August 1998, she participated in an educational program in Kenya that studied the relationship between ecological degradation and emerging infectious diseases.
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Ms. Kidder worked as a Research Assistant for the IOM's Forum on Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Roundtable on the Development of Drugs, Medical Devices, and Biologics at the Institute of Medicine until 1998.
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