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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 439-450
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Dr. Fuster is a past President of the American Heart Association, immediate past President of the World Heart Federation, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a former member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Advisory Council, and former Chairman of the Fellowship Training Directors Program of the American College of Cardiology.
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Dr. Fuster has four ongoing projects as part of the World Heart Federation: "Promoting health as a priority" in children of Bogotá with Sesame Street, "Promoting health as a priority" in adults in The Island of Grenada, polypill developed in Spain for low and middle income countries, and a project with Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs focused on chronic diseases (as an addition to the Millennium project)
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His research interests include disease prevention, epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, community-based education for disease prevention, and international health. He is a member of various distinguished organizations, including the Institute of Medicine, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
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Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health, the American Heart Association's Research Achievement Award, and the Joseph Stokes Preventive Cardiology Award. Most recently he received the Fries Prize in 2005, awarded "for the person who most improved the public's health." Dr.
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Dr. Hu lectured on controlling noncommunicable diseases for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program at Harvard School of Public Health.
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He is a member of the WHO African Advisory Committee on Health Research and Development, the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Chronic Degenerative Diseases Diabetes, and the WHO Committee on Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes, and he is President-elect and member of the Board of Management of the International Diabetes Federation. His research interest is in the epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases, especially diabetes and its complications, ethnopharmacology and molecular biology of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and thyroid diseases and their impact on the health care systems of developing countries.
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She founded, and is Director of, the Health Economics and Financing Programme, which together with its many research partners has an extensive programme of research focused on increasing knowledge of how best to improve health systems in low and middle income countries. She has advised multilateral, bilateral, and government agencies on numerous occasions; acted as specialist advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology's inquiry into the use of science in UK international development policy; was a member of WHO's Commission on Macro-economics and Health and cochair of its working group "Improving the Health Outcomes of the Poor"; wrote the communicable disease paper for the first Copenhagen Consensus; and was a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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Dr. Nugent's recent publications address the costeffectiveness of noncommunicable disease interventions, the economic impacts of chronic disease, and the health impacts of fiscal policies.
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. Professor Reddy has been involved in several major international and national research studies, including the INTERSALT global study of blood pressure and electrolytes, Indian Council of Medical Research–commissioned national collaborative studies on Epidemiology of Coronary Heart Disease and Community Control of Rheumatic Heart Disease, and the INTERHEART global study on risk factors of myocardial infarction.
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Dr. Yach helped place tobacco control, nutrition, and chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease prominently on the agenda of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector.
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Dr. Yach serves on several advisory boards, including those of the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum, the Pan American Health and Education Foundation, the Oxford Health Alliance, and Vitality USA.
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emergency plan for international AIDS relief, the role of border quarantine programs for migrants in the 21st century, sustainable surveillance for zoonotic infections, and the programmatic approach to cancer in low and middle income countries. He also directs a unique capacity building effort, the African Science Academy Development Initiative, which over 10 years aims to strengthen the capacity of African academies to advise their governments on scientific matters.
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