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Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 145-154
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Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world.
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Dr. Atlas is a former member of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Committee, NASA's Planetary Protection Board, the FBI Scientific Working Group on Bioforensics, and the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
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Mid-Atlantic Operations and is responsible for the technical oversight of all group biosafety, biosecurity and biosurety projects, and support staff. He performs incident investigations, bio safety threat and risk assessments, and threat and vulnerability and emergency requirements analyses at designated facilities to mitigate security and safety risks regarding the storage and handling of biological threat agents.
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Positions filled during his tenure at USAMRIID include safety and occupational health specialist, safety and occupational health manager, chief of the Safety and Radiation Protection Office, and Command Biological Safety Officer. He is a former president of the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA)
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He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, and elected to the National Academy of Public Admin istration. National Academy of Sciences service includes membership on the Board on Radioactive Waste Management, panels of the Committee on Human Factors and Transportation Research Board, and the Committees on Long Term Institutional Management of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: Phase Two and Principles and Operational Strategies for Staged Repository Systems.
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He was the founding chair of ProMED (the nonprofit international Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases) and was one of the originators of ProMED-mail, an international network inaugurated by ProMED in 1994 for outbreak reporting and disease monitoring using the Internet.
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She is a former chair and current member of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security and a presidentially appointed member of the Public Interest Declassification Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Judicial Council of California's Access and Fairness Advisory Committee, and the Commission for Impartial Courts. She is also the chair of the Sacramento Chapter of the World Affairs Council and a member of the Board of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation.
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. He is currently study director or responsible staff officer for several ongoing projects including the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and the National Academies Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.
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and Russian scientists, including projects on the internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle, indigenization of Russian nuclear material protection, control, and accounting programs, the future of the biosciences and biotech nology in Russia, and the Nuclear Cities Initiative. She was the project director for a joint National Academies–Russian Academies project on the Future of the Nuclear Security Enironment in 0, and she served as one of two National Academies' staff officers responsible for the completion of the unique, fast-track consensus study, Strengthening U.S.–Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation.
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in philosophy from American University in 2009, completing significant research projects on the status of empiricism in Tiantai Buddhism and the influence of modern science on the philosophy and development of the Kyoto School. He has focused his research interests on Southeast Asian interactions with Buddhism, with particular emphasis on the development of Buddhist philosophy of science and Buddhist approaches to feminism.
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