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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 199-202

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From page 199...
... from the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. He is board certified in internal medicine and preventive medicine and serves on the faculty of the Departments of Public Health at both the University of Washington and Oregon Health Sciences University.
From page 200...
... Her research interests include social epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, air pollution and cardiovascular risk, race and ethnic disparities, and systems approaches in population health. She has published extensively on a variety of public health issues, including the relationship between communities and cardiovascular risk factors and exposure to particulate matter and subsequent development of atherosclerosis, among others.
From page 201...
... . Some of her accomplishments include serving as the scientific lead for developing the Healthy People 2010 tobacco control objectives, leading the release of the Surgeon General's report on second-hand smoke, developing "Best Practices" for tobacco prevention and control, serving on the guideline panel for the Public Health Service "Treating tobacco use and dependence" guideline, providing technical assistance to the Community Preventive Services Task Force guideline recommendations on tobacco, and helping plan tobaccofree campus initiatives at the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services.
From page 202...
... Walter C Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.


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