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Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 143-148

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From page 143...
... She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as past president of the Population Association of America. She serves as board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Princeton Medical Center, the Sloan Foundation, the Jacobs Foundation of Switzerland, and the Corporation of Brown University.
From page 144...
... Department of Health and Human Services; was a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care; and is senior associate editor of the journal Health Services Research. He serves on the board of education of the public school district in Santa Monica, California, a small urban district where one-third of the students are Hispanic.
From page 145...
... Her research focuses on family patterns and health outcomes of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, especially Hispanic populations. She has written extensively about the roles of migration and assimilation in the family patterns and infant health outcomes of Puerto Ricans.
From page 146...
... He is the founding chair of the section on international migration of the American Sociological Association and a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Population. He codirects the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, begun in 1991 as well as a new large-scale study of Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles.
From page 147...
... He has published widely in the area of immigration, race and ethnic relations, social demography, and urban sociology. In 20042005, as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, he wrote a large part of a book on intergenerational change among Mexican Americans, based on random sample surveys of Los Angeles and San Antonio in 1965 and 2000.


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