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Appendix F: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix F: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 343-352
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As chief health officer in the nation's largest city, Dr. Hamburg's many accomplishments included the design and implementation of an internationally recognized tuberculosis control program that produced dramatic declines in tuberculosis cases; the development of initiatives that raised childhood immunization rates to record levels; and the creation of the first public health bioterrorism preparedness program in the nation.
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He has published more than 200 scientific papers, with emphases on the genetic and molecular bases of vector-pathogen and rodent-pathogen interactions, molecular manipulation of mosquitoes, development of clinically relevant diagnostics, and investigations of novel approaches to predict and prevent zoonotic disease emergence.
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GAIL H CASSELL, PH.D., is Vice President of Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Research Scholar in Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company, former Vice President, Infectious Diseases Research, Drug Discovery Research, and Clinical Investigation, at Eli Lilly & Company.
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He is a Visiting Researcher at the Respiratory Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is currently Director of the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit of the Medical Research Council and the National Health Laboratory Service at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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She has just completed an integrated assessment project on the effects of changes in climate variability on crop production in the southeastern United States. Her current projects include an Integrated Assessment of Environmental Problems on the North Slope of Alaska, Climate Change Effects on Crops in the Yangtze River Area of China (funded by NASA)
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He was the head of the group that contained the outbreak of Ebola at Reston, Virginia and led the scientists who identified hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States in 1993. He has worked on global epidemics of emerging zoonotic virus diseases including Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever, and Nipah virus.
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Marine Corps Chemical/Biological Incident Response Force, the Department of Defense's Pane! to Assess the Capabilities for Domestic Response to Terrorist Acts Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (the Gilmore Commission)
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He is an author of more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and research reports, and has served on numerous governmental advisory groups concerned with environmental change and infectious disease epidemiology. He recently served as a member of the NRC Pane!
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Mark was stationed as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Officer in San Diego, and the principal public health investigator on an outbreak of pertussis among adults in a correctional facility, tetrodotoxin poisoning from puffer fish in California, and sexual behavior surveillance in the San Diego core STD prevalence areas. His experience includes epidemiologic field work in the Republic of Georgia.
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When traditional diagnostic methods are rigorously applied to syndromes of suspected infectious etiology, such as pneumonia, encephalitis, Tymphocyte-predominant meningitis, pencarditis, acute diarrhea, and sepsis, only a minority of cases can be explained microbiologically. The majority of emerging infectious disease agents are zoonotic organisms, and as such are better adapted to nonhuman environmental conditions.
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