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Appendix F: Biographical Information
Appendix F: Biographical Information
Pages 127-142
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He has served as president of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges and was the vice chair for the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues. King received his B.S.
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Rita Colwell, Ph.D., is a distinguished university professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently 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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She is the recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun bestowed by the emperor of Japan, the Stockholm Water Prize awarded by the king of Sweden, and the National Medal of Science bestowed by the president of the United States.
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Dennis Fryback, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of population health sciences and industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin– Madison. He specializes in methodological issues underpinning medical decision making, cost-effectiveness analysis of health care interventions, and health policy.
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She is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Joseph Jasinski, Ph.D., is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Global Industry Executive for Smarter Healthcare and Life Sciences at IBM Research.
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In addition to carrying out research, Lieu serves as the Children's Hospital Boston site director of the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship, teaches in the Harvard School of Public Health, and practices pediatrics part time with Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. She was a member of CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the expert group that issues authoritative recommendations on vaccine use in the United States.
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Sabin Gold Medal, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Human Virology, and the Excellence Award from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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He is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Robert Steinglass, M.P.H., is an immunization team leader for the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program at John Snow, Inc., and the project director for the Africa Routine Immunization System Essentials at John Snow Research and Training Institute, Inc.
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In addition, Tomori has served on several WHO advisory committees and expert groups. He received the Nigerian National Order of Merit, the country's highest award for academic and intellectual attainment and national development, and the Nigeria National Ministry of Science and Technology Merit Award for excellence in medical research.
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Madhavan has received a number of awards, including the AT&T Leadership Award, the SUNY Chancellor's Promising Inventor Award, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Mike Sargeant Career Achievement Award, the American College of Clinical Engineering's Thomas O'Dea Advocacy Award, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers' Robert Stewart Engineering–Humanities Award, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation's AAMI–Becton Dickinson Award for Professional Achievement, the District of Columbia Council on Engineering and Architectural Societies' Young Engineer of the Year Award, and the IEEE– USA Professional Achievement Award. Madhavan is a founding member of the Global Young Academy, and has co-edited four books.
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Under her leadership, the board has examined such topics as the safety of childhood vaccines, pandemic influenza preparedness, the revival of civilian immunization against smallpox, the health effect of environmental exposures, the capacity of governmental public health to respond to health crises, systems for evaluating and ensuring drug safety postmarketing, the soundness and ethical conduct of clinical trials to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, and chronic disease prevention, among others. Prior to joining the Institute of Medicine, Martinez was a senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where she conducted research on the impact of health system change on the public health infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care, and the health care workforce.
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He also holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Among other posts, he served as a medical epidemiologist at the Global Immunization Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Health Protection Agency. He is also the head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House and a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Prior to this, Mercer worked in a variety of jobs related to the application of computing to challenges in the life sciences, including at the UK Medical Research Council to establish the Human Chromosome Abnormality Database, a health care resource subsequently adopted by the UK National Health Service. He then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, where he helped to create the primary database of the German human genome project.
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He has served as president of the board of directors for BioForward, the Wisconsin state biotechnology organization, and currently serves on the board of directors for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. John Spika, M.D., is director general of the Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases at the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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