Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop (2010) / Chapter Skim
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peer-reviewed journal, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. His areas of study include disaster recovery and resiliency, the social ecology of vulnerability, risk communication targeted to high-risk or elusive communities, and survey research on preparedness attitudes and behaviors.
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(planning committee member) is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and founding chair of the Department of Health Studies there.
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Dr. Benjamin is founder and former CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, former associate dean for rural health at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, and immediate past chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States.
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His military experience includes more than 23 years of service with assignments that include serving as a nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare defense instructor and as a public health officer. He has also served as the public health preparedness director for the state of Missouri and as an infection control occupational health intervention manager at BJC Healthcare.
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He is also involved in studies of the effects of psychosocial factors on the onset and progression of asthma, and on the effectiveness of social support interventions in facilitating psychological adjustment and disease progression in women with breast cancer. His current work focuses on how interpersonal dispositions and behaviors influence immunity and host resistance to infectious disease.
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Garza spent 13 years as a practicing physician and medical educator. He most recently served as the director of military programs at the ER One Institute at the Washington Hospital Center, and he has served as the associate medical director of the emergency medical services (EMS)
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is a professor of environmental and occupational health and the former dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. He is a physician, board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and toxicology.
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Jimmy Guidry, M.D. is currently the state health officer of Louisiana, and he also serves as the medical director for the Department of Health & Hospitals (DHH)
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During her tenure at CDC, Dr. Lichtveld received numerous honors, including Special Service Award for her participation in the aftermath of September 11, 2001; Public Health Service Special Recognition Award; and CDC Environmental Health Scientist of the Year.
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at UCLA, where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. She serves as senior editor for Health Services Research and has served on editorial boards and as a reviewer for numerous journals.
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Dr. Masys served as chief of the International Cancer Research Data Bank of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and was director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, which is the computer research and development division of the National Library of Medicine.
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Matte directed studies to improve population exposure assessment, surveillance, and prevention of illness and death related to extreme heat and air pollution. He also participated in public health responses to the World Trade Center attacks and anthrax cases in 2001, the 2003 blackout, and the H1N1 outbreak in 2009.
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He has played an important role in developing community psychosocial preparedness programs for first responders and mental health professionals to improve responses following disaster and terrorism. He is co-director of the Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center (LRTSC)
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A medical anthropologist, his research interests focus on implementation science, community-based participatory research, the sociocultural and environ-mental determinants of health and health-related behavior, and health disparities. His current research encompasses mental, immigrant, and global health and includes studies of the mental health needs of individuals in extreme and unusual environments and communities impacted by manmade disasters; cultural explanatory models of mental illness and service utilization; evaluation of academic–community research practice partnerships; and the implementation of evidence-based practices for delivery of mental health services.
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He also organized medical response teams in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 and has had disaster management leadership experience internationally and nationally. He is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now, published in August 2006 by Alfred A
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She is the recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and a UN-USA Birmingham Chapter award for outstanding public health service. David A
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Mr. Stanislaus is responsible for the EPA's programs on hazardous and solid waste management, hazardous waste clean-up including corrective action, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Superfund and federal facilities clean-up and redevelopment, Brownfields, oil spill prevention and response, chemical accident prevention and preparedness, underground storage tanks, and emergency response.
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is the director of the Tulane Center for Applied Environmental Public Health (CAEPH) at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
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He served on the Executive Committee of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and was president of the association from 1997 to 1998. He served as a member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of the Public Health Foundation, and the Steering Committee on Access for the Uninsured of the National Academy for State Health Policy.
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