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Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 115-120

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... GEORGE M GRAY, Ph.D., is lecturer on risk analysis in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health at Harvard University.
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... Dr. Jensen's current research includes participation in an evaluation of the nutrition education component of the WIC Program; her part in this competitive grant to the Iowa Department of Public Health from the Food and Nutrition Service of the USDA is analysis of the cost-effectiveness of the nutrition education intervention.
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... Odoms-Young completed a Family Research Consortium Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on understanding family processes in diverse populations at the Pennsylvania State University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Community Health Scholars Fellowship in communitybased research at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research and teaching focus on race, poverty, and health; community-based participatory research; obesity prevention and management; religion and health (with emphasis on health issues impacting Muslim women)
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... She chaired the CDC-funded "Building Comprehensive Obesity Surveillance" national workgroup and is currently President of the Maternal and Child Health Council of the Association of Schools of Public Health and President of the Graduate Faculties of Public Health Nutrition. ANNA MARIA SIEGA-RIZ, Ph.D., R.D., is associate professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health and the Department of Nutrition in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC)
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... CAROL WEST SUITOR, Sc.D., is a nutrition consultant who currently is technical editor/ writer for the year 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Pervious consulting work includes assisting the March of Dimes' Task Force for Nutrition and Optimal Human Development; assisting the year 2000 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee; studying school children's diets in conjunction with Mathematica Policy Research Inc.; and serving on the Advisory Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health's Dietary Intake Grant (ERS/USDA)
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Key Terms

  • panels including
  • medicine panels
  • food industry
  • child health
  • food safety

  • food assistance
  • community health
  • nutritional status
  • risk criteria
  • reference intakes

  • dietary guidelines
  • guidelines advisory
  • dietary reference
  • scientific evaluation
  • dietary intake

  • nutrition risk
  • wic nutrition
  • food security
  • wic programs
  • maternal nutrition

  • food consumption
  • dietary risk
  • minority health
  • nutrition education
  • nutrition consultant

  • health nutrition
  • food distribution
  • nutrition principles
  • human development
  • nutrition policies


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