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Appendix D: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 69-76

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... From 1995 until 1999 she was assistant vice president of legislative and regulatory affairs for the National Pork Producers Council, and from 1992 until 1995 she served as vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs at the American Meat Institute.
From page 70...
... Established in May 2006, MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online organization with more than 1 million members, more than 550 contributing bloggers, and more than a hundred aligned national organizations, working together to increase family economic security, to end discrimination against women and mothers, and to help ensure that all children can thrive. For 3 years in a row, Forbes.com has named MomsRising.org's website one of the Top 100 Websites for Women.
From page 71...
... She has authored amicus briefs, comments for federal agency proceedings, peer-reviewed articles, and fact sheets on legal strategies aimed at reducing junk food and tobacco marketing. She frequently presents at national conferences on the First Amendment and other doctrinal issues affecting policy efforts to address harmful commercial marketing practices.
From page 72...
... to study the effects of marketing and countermarketing on youth tobacco use; developed a series of prevention partnerships linking public health researchers with New York State tobacco-health policy makers; evaluated intervention programs for the state's largest youth tobacco prevention program; and worked at Columbia to bring an interdisciplinary approach to tobacco control and prevention, developing innovative grants that link academic researchers to public health practitioners. She has served on a vast array of national, state, and local conferences, committees, boards, and task forces for public health and policy issues, including HIV/AIDS, violence, and alcoholism.
From page 73...
... Huang was director of the Obesity Research Strategic Core at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, where he played a leading role in developing new national research directions and funding priorities. He is currently one of the leading proponents of the integration of systems science and chronic disease prevention.
From page 74...
... in film and television studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Joyal Mulheron, M.S., is chief strategy officer for the Partnership for a Healthier America, a bipartisan, nonprofit organization devoted to working with the private sector to help solve childhood obesity within a generation.
From page 75...
... She was then promoted to various positions, including pharmacy district manager; director of pharmacy operations; director of pharmacy health services and third party; and finally director, government and trade relations, a position in which she represented more than 1,500 Kmart Pharmacy locations on state and federal pharmacy and health care issues.
From page 76...
... His research interests include consumer behavior of multicultural market segments, Internet privacy, public health communication, marketplace discrimination, retail redlining, and advertising. He received his Ph.D.


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