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Appendix E: Committee Biographies
Appendix E: Committee Biographies
Pages 250-258
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Dr. Lagakos' current research involves a variety of statistical issues arising in clinical trials and other longitudinal studies, with particular emphasis on statistical methods and analyses relating to HIV and other infectious diseases.
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He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and has served on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and several IOM committees addressing the social impact of AIDS, tuberculosis elimination, vaccine safety, smallpox vaccination, and the Ryan White CARE Act. He has published extensively on ethical issues raised by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including books such as Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health (1989)
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His academic interests include respiratory medicine, academic freedom, medical ethics and the humanities in medicine, human rights, health care systems, health economics, international research ethics, and global health. He has published more than 250 journal articles and book chapters on these topics.
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He has served on a number of IOM panels, including the Committee on Perinatal Transmission of HIV, the Panel on Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs, and the Panel on Statistical Issues in AIDS Research. Carlos del Rio, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine, and Vice Chair for Grady Affairs in the Department of Medicine.
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A research position linked to the Janssen Research Foundation and LUC in Belgium allowed her to develop statistical methods for handling partial compliance with randomized drug therapy. The study of causal inference and noncompliance in clinical trials became a long-term research interest.
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Virology Medical Affairs, overseeing more than 100 HIV clinical trials worldwide. In February 2005 she joined the Infectious Disease Division at New Jersey Medical School, and since that time has directed a large clinic for HIV-infected persons in Newark.
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Dr. Jaffar has provided statistical and epidemiological support to a large trial of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Gambian infants, a school-randomized trial of an HIV prevention strategy in Zimbabwe, studies of severe malaria in children in Yemen, a birth cohort of rotavirus infections in India, and a trial of micronutrient-fortified complimentary feeding of children in an area of high HIV prevalence in Zambia.
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His current research interests include the epidemiology and control of HIV infection and AIDS-related opportunistic infections (especially in developing countries) , the prevention of coccidioidomycosis, sexually transmitted disease control in California, pediatric vaccination policy, the role of public health in managed care, evidence-based public health practice, the epidemiology and control of tuberculosis in California, emerging infectious diseases, and bioterrorism.
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She also chaired the 2007 South African AIDS conference, which attracted people from 60 countries, adding to the 4,000-strong South African participants. Gina Wingood, Sc.D., M.P.H., is the Agnes Moore Endowed Faculty in HIV/ AIDS Research; Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Core, Center for AIDS Research; and Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
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