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Appendix B: Speakers and Panelists
Appendix B: Speakers and Panelists
Pages 63-74
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In Congress he became known as "Mr. Health." Some of the prominent pieces of legislation that he sponsored and played a major role in enacting are the National Cancer Act of 1971 and 1977; the Health Manpower Training Act; the Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung and Blood Act; the Research on Aging Act; the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970; the Medical Device Amendments of 1976; the Emergency Medical Services Act; the Health Maintenance Organization Act; the Clean Air Act; the Safe Drinking Water Act; the Radiation Health Safety Act; the Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977; and the Sea Grant College Act.
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Mr. Rogers was awarded the Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences in 1982; the Year 2000 Award from the National Cancer Institute in 1987; the 1991 Health Policy Award from the American Health Lawyers Association; the Founders Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Research in 1992; the 1993 Albert Lasker Award for Public Service; the 1994 APhA Hugo Schaefer Award; the 1994 AlliedSignal Achievement Award in Aging; the 1994 Distinguished Leadership Award from the University of Florida Health Sciences Center; the 1995 NOF Leadership Award; the 1996 Maxwell Finland Award; the 1997 American Cancer Society Distinguished Service Award; the National Community Pharmacists Association 1998 Distinguished American Award; and the 1999 IONA's Outstanding Citizen award.
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She completed pediatric training at Children's Hospital in Oakland, California. She has served on numerous boards and expert committees, including the Committee on Environmental Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous expert committees for the National Academies.
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He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health, a public member of the American Chemistry Council's Strategic Science Team for its Long-Term Research Program, and several other industry- and university-based science advisory panels. In 2002, he was recognized by the Society for Risk Analysis with the Outstanding Risk
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Environmental Protection Agency from 1983 to 1985. His past activities include member and chairman of the NIH Toxicology Study Section and the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; chair of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Role of the Physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the National Research Council's Committees on Biomarkers in Environmental Health Research and Risk Assessment Methodology, and the Industry Panel of the World Health Organization's Commission on Health and Environment.
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His contributions include successfully pushing for passage of California's Birth Defects Prevention Act, assisting in the establishment of California's tough guidelines for reporting pesticide use, and major contributions to a National Academies report on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children, which helped lead to passage of the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996. Selected to be director of the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health in 1994, Jackson studied and addressed such issues as cancer, asthma,
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and the first Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health (1988) ; the work of the Public Health Functions Steering Committee to develop the 10 Essential Services of Public Health; the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program; the RWJF Young Epidemiology Scholars Program; and the RWJF Active Living family of programs.
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Watson professor of bioethics. He is a founding editor of the journal Medical Humanities Review and is on the editorial boards of The Hastings Center Report; Human Gene Therapy; Politics and the Life Sciences; Cloning, Science, and Policy; Medscape General Medicine Teaching Ethics; the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry; and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
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. His honors and awards include the Toxicology Forum's Distinguished Fellow Award, the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award; and the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award for sustained extraordinary accomplishments; the HHS secretary's Distinguished Service Award; the American College of Toxicology's First Distinguished Service Award, the National Minority Health Leadership Award (2005)
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He has received numerous awards, including the Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association and the Outstanding Practitioner of the Year Award from the Society for Risk Analysis. He has aided in the development of risk assessment guidelines for both national and international authorities and has either directed or contributed significantly to numerous risk assessments, most notably those for dioxins, aflatoxins, and electromagnetic fields.
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One component of CPR's mission is to circulate academic papers, studies, and other analyses that promote public policy based on the multiple social values that motivated the enactment of the nation's health, safety, and environmental laws. CPR seeks to inform the public about scholarship that envisions government as an arena in which members of society choose and preserve their collective values.
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