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Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Contributors
Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Contributors
Pages 484-490
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. His research focuses on Latino politics, the process of political incorporation of new and formerly excluded populations into U.S.
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His research interests include racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, immigrant health, provider and patient behavior under economic incentives, technological change in medicine, and the impact of health care market structure on costs and quality. He has served on the National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research, and Evaluation of the U.S.
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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.
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His areas of research include Latino and immigrant health, health care disparities, patient satisfaction with health care, and cross-cultural survey research methods. He is currently principal investigator for an evaluation study of a multiple-site intervention to improve interpreter services for Spanish-speaking Latino patients and director of the measurement cores for two health disparities centers at UCLA: the Project Export Center on Disparities and the UCLA Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders.
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ANN OWENS is a graduate student in the sociology and social policy program at Harvard University. Previously she served as the project director at the Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work at the University of Chicago, contributing to many projects, including an advanced placement sociology course pilot program, a random educational intervention designed to encourage minority students' participation in the health industry, a national conference focused on the workfamily balance of dual-career families, and the production of two edited volumes, one on working families and one on the sociology of education.
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He has published widely in the area of immigration, race and ethnic relations, social demography, and urban sociology. In 2004 2005, 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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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.
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