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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 495-502
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In 2003, at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, he received the inaugural award for outstanding research contribution in the international Luther L Terry Awards for Exemplary Leadership in Tobacco Control.
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Ittleson Award of the American Psychiatric Association, a Faculty Scholar Award from the William T Grant Foundation, and, in 1999, received the Irving Philips Award for Prevention and the Catcher in the Rye Award for Advocacy for Children from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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He is a member and former chairman of the National Medical Association's section on psychiatry, a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a founding member and past board chairman of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on mental health and African Americans.
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For the past 20 years, he has received support from the National Institute of Mental Health and more recently from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop statistical methods for the design and analysis of preventive and early intervention field trials. As director of the Prevention Science and Methodology Group, Brown leads a national network of methodologists who are working on the design of preventive field trials and their analysis, particularly with advanced techniques for growth analysis, multilevel modeling, and designs for implementation research.
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In addition to this outcome study, she is exploring the role of cumulative stress, acculturation, cultural identity, depression, and substance use in American Indian adolescent mental health. LaFromboise has received many professional awards for the book American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum, including recognition from the Carter Center for Public Policy, the Department of Health and Human Services as a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Program of Excellence, the First Nations Behavioral Health Association, and the Mental Health/Social Service Program of the Indian Health Service as an Outstanding Contribution to American Indian Mental Health.
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She also served as study director for the Committee on Standards of Evidence and the Quality of Behavioral and Social Science Research, a DBASSEwide strategic planning effort; developed standalone workshops on welfare reform and children and gun violence; and facilitated meetings of the national coordinating committee of the Key National Indicators Initiative. She came to DBASSE from the U.S.
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He was a line worker and later a program coordinator in a number of child welfare service agencies. He has worked with the state departments of social services to implement intensive homebased services, child welfare training, and risk assessment systems for child protective services.
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His research focuses on preventive interventions for children in high-stress situations, including the study of mechanisms of resilience, and the longitudinal evaluation of the effects of preventive interventions for children who have experienced parental divorce and bereavement. He has written extensively on evidencebased prevention and treatment, particularly the development and evaluation of prevention programs based on models of resilience in response to serious stressful life events for children.
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