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Appendix B: Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Pages 247-254

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... Hoyte, J.D., is a lecturer on environmental science and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and assistant to the president and associate vice president of Harvard University.
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From page 248...
... Keeler, Ph.D., is a professor in the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Public Health School, where he has taught cost effectiveness and decision analysis for many years. He led the multisite Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation.
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... Kotchian's direction, the Albuquerque Environmental Health Department administered comprehensive city- and county-wide programs in the areas of air quality, environmental health planning, food protection, noise control, hazardous waste, pollution prevention, groundwater quality and protection, landfill characterization and remediation, integrated vector management, vehicle emissions, epidemiology, geographic information systems, public information, and animal services. She is a recognized leader, author, and speaker on the formation of local, state, and national environmental and public health policy, leadership, and practice.
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From page 250...
... Susan L Santos, Ph.D., M.S., is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey School of Public Health and holds a concurrent appointment to the VA War Related Illness and Injury Study Center in East Orange, New Jersey, where she serves as the associate director of education and risk communication.
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From page 251...
... He served on numerous National Research Council committees, including the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Decision Making Under Uncertainty. He was a coordinating lead author in Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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... in mathematical psychology from the University of Michigan. Robert B, Wallace, M.D., M.Sc., is the Irene Ensminger Stecher Professor of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health and Medicine.
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... APPENDIX B 253 issues; and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. He is a principal investigator of several research projects on the health of older persons.
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