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Appendix D: Biographies of Planning Committee Members and Workshop Speakers
Appendix D: Biographies of Planning Committee Members and Workshop Speakers
Pages 247-264
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He was educated at Harvard University, where he received his undergraduate degree as well as degrees in public policy and medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, a residency in psychiatry at Boston Beth Israel Hospital, and a residency in preventive medicine at CDC.
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He has conducted and overseen numerous studies of the epidemiology of youth suicide, family violence, homicide, and firearm injuries. He also served as a coeditor of the WHO World Report on Violence and Health.
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He completed his doctorate in 1995, with a focus on the sociology of public health in Africa. In 19992000 he was a visiting scientist in the Karolinska Institute and from 1998 to 2001 was principal investigator for the South African Violence Injury Surveillance Consortium and a founder of the Uganda-based Injury Prevention Initiative for Africa.
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He is director of public and community psychiatry, clinical professor of psychiatry and public health, and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Violence Prevention Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has 350 publications, the most recent being The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness (2004)
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Burkhalter most recently served as the U.S. policy director of Physicians for Human Rights, a Bostonbased human rights organization specializing in medical, scientific, and forensic investigations of violations of internationally recognized human rights.
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; "ChinaRochester Suicide Research Training ICOHRTA" (NIH Fogarty International Center D43) ; and "China Collaborative Suicide Research Training Program" (CCSRT; NIH Fogarty International Center D43)
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In recent years, Donnelly has received awards from the Global Health Council, RESULTS, InterAction, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Prior to joining the Globe, he worked for a year in Washington
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from Cornell University and has published on foreign aid, debt and development finance, public expenditure reform, international public goods, and the interrelationship between trade and macroeconomic regimes and agricultural growth. He is the author, with Ashoka Mody, of International Public Goods: Incentives, Measurement, and Financing (Kluwer Academic Publishers and the World Bank, 2002)
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Dr. Garbarino has served as consultant or adviser to a wide range of organizations, including the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, the National Institute for Mental Health, the American Medical Association, the National Black Child Development Institute, the National Science Foundation, the U.S.
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David Gartner, J.D., is the policy director for the Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) , an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving a comprehensive response to the AIDS pandemic and to expanding educational opportunities in affected countries.
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He is responsible for CDC research and programs to prevent child maltreatment, youth violence, family and intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and suicide. The division oversees prevention research, surveillance, and programs in youth violence, family and intimate partner violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and suicide.
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He has authored numerous articles and several books as well as prevention programs for parents and families, including Guiding Good Choices, arents Who Care and Supporting School Success. He is past president of P the Society for Prevention Research and has served on a number of national and state government committees including NIDA's Epidemiology, Prevention and Services Research Review Committee; the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention's National Advisory Committee; the NIH Study Section for Community Prevention and Control; the Department of Education's Safe, Disciplined, Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel; and the Washington State Governor's Substance Abuse Prevention Committee.
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He is a noted expert on democracy, international development policy, human rights, and international religious freedom issues.
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emergency plan for international AIDS relief, the role of border quarantine programs for migrants in the twentyfirst century, pandemic influenza control, and the approach to cancer in low- and middle-income countries. One unique capacity-building effort, the African Science Academy Development Initiative, is a 10-year undertaking to build the capacity of African academies to advise their governments on scientific matters.
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He chairs the International Organizing Committee for World Conferences on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion and the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration. From July 1995 to December 1999, Dr.
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Her analytical and operational work focuses on social development issues in urban development. She has worked in the area of violence prevention in the Latin America and Caribbean region since 1998, with an emphasis on integrated municipal crime and violence prevention programs as well as community-based crime and violence prevention approaches.
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with honors from McGill University in food science-nutrition. Charlotte Watts, Ph.D., is the Sigrid Rausing Chair in Gender Violence and Health and heads the newly established research Centre on Gender, Violence and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Immediately prior to his association with the California Wellness Foundation, he was associate director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Yates received his undergraduate degree in government from American University in Washington, D.C., and his master's degree in counseling psychology from the University of Northern Colorado.
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