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Appendix C Biographical Sketches
Pages 328-334

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From page 328...
... Over the past 30 years, she has conducted research on a wide variety of topics ranging from gender role socialization, teacher expectations, and classroom influences on student motivation, to social development in the family and school context. Much of this work has focused on middle childhood and adolescence when health-compromising behaviors such as smoking increase dramatically.
From page 329...
... from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Brett Brown is senior research associate and area director for social indicators research at Child Trends, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research firm.
From page 330...
... She has published numerous scholarly and popular articles on a wide variety of topics in maternal and child health and in reproductive health and is also a frequent public speaker and media contact on these issues. She serves on numerous advisory committees of national organizations and on several boards as well, including that of the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
From page 331...
... Ronald Ferguson is lecturer in public policy and senior research associate at the Wiener Center for Social Policy in the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
From page 332...
... He is an expert on programs and policies for low-income children and youth. Selected by the MacArthur Foundation as a core member of its research network on middle childhood, he has conducted numerous empirical studies; in recent years, he has focused particularly on public policies related to the effects of welfare policies on children and the evaluation of comprehensive school reforms.
From page 333...
... Elena Nightingale (Scho~r-in-ResidenceJ is a volunteer with the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. She is an adjunct professor of pediatrics at both Georgetown University Medical Center and George Washington University Medical Center.
From page 334...
... Recently, her principal research efforts at the Center have been to develop protective methods for women that will reduce their risks of sexually transmitted infections; to study the epidemiology of perinatal HIV infection, including risks for maternal-infant transmission including breast feeding; factors involved in survival; and neurodevelopmental effects on infected infants.


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