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Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Pages 171-196
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The Russian Ministry of Health awarded her the Medal of Merit for domestic health care. Rifat Atun, M.B.B.S., M.B.A., FRCGP, FFPH, FRCP, is Professor of International Health Management, Imperial College Business School and Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.
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He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for PEPFAR, the Global Health Group at the UK Medical Research Council, and the Global Task Force for Expanding Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries. He has published extensively on health systems, communicable disease control, and innovation in health and biopharmaceutical sectors.
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. He served as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1998 through 2008 and is a leading scientist in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and global health.
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(Hon.) , is Visiting Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Vice President of TB Drug Development of the not-for-profit Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.
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CDC Honor Award in Public Health for exceptional leadership and contributions in the development and implementation of U.S. CDC's Emerging Infectious Disease Plan 1997, a Citation from the FDA Commissioner for her role as chair of the review of science and technology at FDA and the report FDA: Science and Mission at Risk 2008, and the Emmy Klineberger-Nobel Award in 2008 from the International Organization for Mycoplasmology for outstanding and sustained research contributions to the field of myco lasmology.
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Currently, she is a member of the Morehouse School of Medicine Board of Trustees, the Advisory Council of the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, and the Stakeholders Advisory Committee of the newly established Howard Hughes Institute K-RITH in Durban, South Africa. Richard E
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He received his master's degree in medicine from Beijing Union Medical College in 2000. In 1987, he joined the Department of Scientific Management, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, which was renamed China CDC in 2002.
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Mr. Collins is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and has led process and quality improvement and organizational effectiveness initiatives for Eli Lilly during the past 5 years.
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Dr. Farmer is Presley Professor of Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and United Nations deputy special envoy for Haiti under special envoy Bill Clinton.
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Neel R Gandhi, M.D., is Associate Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology, Global Health, and Infectious Diseases at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health.
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He is also the Vice President of Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Deputy Director-General of China CDC; and Vice President of Chinese Society of Biotechnology. His research interests include the molecular mechanisms of interspecies transmission of pathogens, molecular virology, and molecular immunology.
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Anne E Goldfeld, M.D., is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Investigator in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston; Physician in the Division of Infectious Disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and Co-Founder of the Cambodian and Global Health Committees.
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He is currently responsible for TB infection control, operational research and international cooperation, at the National Center for TB Control and Prevention, China CDC, and has published about 50 research articles and 7 books.
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He is also a clinician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a senior TB specialist at Partners In Health, an international nonprofit organization that provides direct health care services and advocates on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty.
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He began managing collaboration between France and Africa on behalf of BGI in 2013. Tao Li is Attending Physician and Assistant Director, Department of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University.
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She is also an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she leads a research team that conducts multidisciplinary research on MDR and XDR TB involving conventional and molecular epidemiology, cost-effectiveness and mathematical modeling, outcomes and operations research, and genomic epidemiology. She has conducted field studies in Peru, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, and the United States and has previously worked in Kenya, Niger, and Pakistan.
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He was the 2005 recipient of the Chadwick Medal of the Massachusetts Thoracic Society. Mark Nicol, M.D., Ph.D., is the Wernher and Beit Professor and Head of the Division of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa.
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CDC International Emerging Infections Program, Global Disease Detection, China Office, to serve as the Chief of the Epidemiology Section in September 2009. In this position, she collaborates with China CDC to provide technical support for public health projects in China, with a particular focus on TB infection control and health care–associated infections.
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at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a focus on occupational risk factors for TB among health care orkers w in South Africa and is currently a Fogarty Global Health Postdoctoral F ellow at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is passionate about improving the protection of health care workers in low-resourced settings.
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In postgraduate studies at Grant Medical College, Bombay, he spent 5 years training in various centers of excellence in the United Kingdom, including Sir John Crofton's former TB unit in Edinburgh and the prestigious Brompton Hospital, London. On his return, he established an active chest department at the Hinduja Hospital, a tertiary referral center in Mumbai.
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Martie van der Walt, Ph.D., M.B.A., is the Interim Director of the Tuberculosis Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council and Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Internal Medicines, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. The unit conducts research on infection control, the epidemiology of DR TB, treatment adherence, and TB/HIV integration through the program for Tuberculosis HIV/AIDS Treatment Support and Integrated Therapy.
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Dr. Volchenkov was invited by WHO, the Finnish Lung Health Association, the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Médicins Sans Frontières, and other international organizations to lecture on TB infection control in Amaty, Armenia, Ashgabat, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Minsk Belarus, Moscow, Petrozavodsk, St.
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Lixin Zhang, Ph.D., is a Deputy Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology; and Inaugural Director, Drug Discovery Center for Tuberculosis, IMCAS. Before joining IMCAS in 2006, Dr.
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Dr. Zhang graduated from Shanghai Medical University and was appointed as a tenured professor of Fudan University in 2007 and as the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Hospital, affiliated with Fudan University, in 2010.
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He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 and as a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2007. Yanlin Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., is Vice Director, National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Director, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, China CDC.
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