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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 161-168

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From page 161...
... She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, and the Association for Psychological Science William James Award. She has been elected president of the Association for Psychological Science, president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
From page 162...
... Her research interests include ethical issues and well-being of vulnerable populations, including ethnic minority youth and families, active drug users, college students at risk for drinking problems, and adults with impaired consent capacity. She currently directs the Fordham University Training Institute on HIV Prevention Research Ethics.
From page 163...
... She helped develop rules on controlled unclassified information, including privacy information standardization across the federal government, and she has worked on rules for handling data among federal, state, local, and private industry partners. She served as a government expert on automating privacy and has applied proprietary policy and privacy analysis techniques and advice in education, child welfare, and health care.
From page 164...
... She was on the National Research Council panel on Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data and chaired the NRC workshop on Protecting Student's Records and Facilitating Education Research. Currently, she is on the Executive Committee of the Consortium of Social Science Associations, and is past chair and on the Board of Directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics.
From page 165...
... He was associate editor of Biochemical Pharmacology, editor of Clinical Research, and founding editor of IRB: Ethics and Human Research. He chaired the Steering Committee for Revision of the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences.
From page 166...
... Harkness professor of economics and political science and founder and director of the Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science at the California Institute of Technology. He was co-founder with Vernon Smith of the field of experimental economics and has applied the methodology of experimental economics to address public policy issues and challenges, including work on the design and implementation of computerized market mechanisms for allocating complex items such as markets for pollution permits in Southern California, the FCC auction of licenses for personal communication systems, the auctions for electric power in California, and the allocation of landing rights at airports.
From page 167...
... His current research interests include the use of longitudinal data to study chronic disease processes, especially diabetes and dementia; health care decision making at older ages; how couples jointly plan for risks of old age including retirement, widowhood, and disability; the role of personality factors in lifetime economic success; and the use of biomarkers, particularly genetics, in population surveys. He serves as an advisor to international studies linked to the Health and Retirement Study in Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Israel, China, India, and Brazil.


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