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Appendix B: Biographies
Appendix B: Biographies
Pages 95-108
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Some of her program's key accomplishments included regulating the use of trans fat in New York City restaurants, the National Salt Reduction Initiative, establishing nutrition standards for food procured by New York City government agencies, and clinical quality improvement initiatives for blood pressure and cholesterol control. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed internal medicine residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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He was a member of the authoring committee of the Institute of Medicine's 2010 report Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World. He is passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing chronic noncommunicable diseases throughout the world.
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She has 20 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Prior to her current position, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led health economics and financing knowledge products and policy dialogue with member countries, and was team leader of the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program.
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She has since broadened her perspectives in research to include the awareness, prevention, and control of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and stroke under the aegis of the national control program for the same, stoking many ongoing research projects, and has conducted 245 detection and awareness camps so far, screening 24,540 members of the populace. Emma Herry-Thompson, MD, has been in the health care arena for the past 40 years.
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One of the major components of the PIP is noncommunicable diseases where a strategy and interventions with targeted indicators have been designed to improve the quality of services in both rural and urban setting.
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She has more than 20 years' experience in international health and development in Africa, Latin America, and East Asia, ranging from clinical care to health services management and public policy dialogue. She has designed and managed programs and projects in areas that include hospital care, tuberculosis control, health information systems, primary health care, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, results-based financing, and public health insurance.
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The World Heart Federation, headquartered in Geneva, comprises more than 200 member organizations in 120 countries and leads the global fight against heart disease and stroke, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. The World Heart Federation is one of the founding members of the NCD Alliance, the lead civil society organization focusing on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
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Based with the WHO Department of Health Systems Financing since 2008, she is responsible for the development and application of tools for costing, cost-effectiveness, and expenditure tracking, with a primary focus on health systems and WHO's millennium development goals. She is a member of the inter-agency working group that is developing the OneHealth model for supporting country strategic health planning, and she has supported multiple global cost and impact assessment analyses with advocacy implications, including the International Health Partnership high-level task force on innovative international financing for health systems and the global strategy for women's and children's health.
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Dr. Nugent was a committee member for the Institute of Medicine study Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.
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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 was the committee chair for the IOM study Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.
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Dr. Lamptey was a committee member for the IOM study Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.
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Dr. Yach was a committee member for the IOM study Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.
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She is involved in dissemination activities for the 2010 report Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health, as well as in the evaluation of PEPFAR-supported global HIV/AIDS programs. Before coming to the IOM, she spent two years in rural Tanzania teaching high school science through the Peace Corps.
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