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Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 207-218

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From page 207...
... She is a co-chair of the Healthy People 2020 Health Communication and Health Information Technology Workgroup and a co-chair of the HHS workgroup on health literacy. She is the lead author of the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy.
From page 208...
... She was elected to membership in the IOM in 1992 and is a member of its Executive Council, Board on Global Health, and Board on African Science Academy Development. She was elected to serve a second 4-year term as the foreign secretary of the IOM beginning July 1, 2010.
From page 209...
... Cabe was awarded the National Institutes of Health Team Merit Award for her work on the Cancer Genome Atlas, a collaboration of the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute. Prior to joining the Office of the Surgeon General, Ms.
From page 210...
... He also serves on several boards, including the Partnership for Prevention, the Global Health & Benefits Institute, and the Health Enhancement Research Organization. Ilona Kickbusch, Ph.D., is the director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
From page 211...
... Diane Levin-Zamir, Ph.D., M.P.H., MCHES, is director of the National Department of Health Education and Promotion of Clalit, Israel's largest health service organization, and lecturer in health promotion in the Schools of Public Health in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Hebrew Universities.
From page 212...
... Dr. Levin-Zamir has fulfilled a number of leadership roles in the International Union of Health Education and Promotion, is chairperson of the Global Working Group on Health Literacy, serves on the editorial board of the Global Health Promotion Journal, and is editor of the HP-Source.com for building capacity in health promotion.
From page 213...
... for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research, Vienna, Austria, and adjunct professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. In the last two decades, he has focused his basic and applied research on reform of health care (psychiatric care, medical education, quality in health care)
From page 214...
... He currently maintains faculty appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine and George Washington University Medical Center, and the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School. His books include The Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good, Attaining Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities, and AIDS: Effective Health Communication for the 90s.
From page 215...
... Michael Rosenblatt, M.D., scientist, educator, and hospital and global health care company executive, is executive vice president and chief medical officer at Merck & Co., Inc. He represents the voice of the patient and medicine inside Merck and is the company's primary external advocate on medical issues.
From page 216...
... In addition, she works closely with members of the European Parliament, the European Commission (DG Sanco) , and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe to establish health literacy on the European health agenda.
From page 217...
... Dr. Vamos provides strategic agency direction and contribution to the development and implementation of frameworks, approaches, tools, and products to build internal and external capacity for building health literacy awareness and the application of concepts into public health practices and programs.
From page 218...
... In Connecticut, she participated as a state trainer in the National Health Education Assessment Project initiative designed to direct improvements in health education planning and delivery to promote health literacy by aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She also served as a faculty member and program coordinator at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where she developed both undergraduate and graduate health education programs.


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